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Inside Inside History of Sardis ferries Officials ready for winter Page 7 INNformer Page 10 Publication of The Wells Inn Volume 4, No. 1 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 January 10, 2017 PC Council Fire destroys OKs bids for garage on Rt 18 sewer project By Charles Winslow PADEN CITY – Paden City residents SISTERSVILLE – During the bitterly cold should see work begin this spring on the Friday evening, Jan. 6, the Sistersville Volun- sewer and stormwater sewer project as teer Fire Department was called out to a well as the sewer plant. structure fire, this time an unattached garage, Mayor Joel Davis reported to council on WV Route 18 near the roller rink. members Clyde Hochstrasser, John When the department arrived on scene Staggers, Tammy Parsons, Ken Stead around 7:15 p.m. the wood-framed two-car and Susan Postlethwait the bids came in garage was fully involved, Jason Wayne, Sis- under budget with Fields Contracting as tersville fire chief, said. The structure is re- low bidder for Phase I. Littman’s Con- ported to have contained two tractors as well tracting was low bidder for Phase II, in- as 6,000 board feet of kiln dried lumber. stallation of a grit removal system. The fire was difficult to fight because the roof Work is expected to start this spring fol- of the structure collapsed during the blaze, lowing an expected loan closing in Feb- Wayne said. ruary and a groundbreaking in March. With temperatures plunging into the single Council also approved all street, water digits, Sistersville requested the West Virginia and sewer employees can spend $100 for Department of Highways come treat the road- work boots from Bridgeport Equipment. way near the scene of the fire because of ice The mayor encouraged council members build up from the water and melted snow. and employees to attend an ethics meet- Assisting Sistersville was tanker support from ing sponsored by the West Virginia Ethics the Paden City Volunteer Fire Company as Commission at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12, well as SGH’s ambulance and the Tyler in room 110 at West Virginia Community County Sheriff’s Office. College in New Martinsville. No injuries were reported and the cause of the The next council meeting will be at 7 fire remains under investigation. p.m. Feb. 6. – Diane Pottorff 2016: The year in review By Debbie Browning leave the Marcellus/Utica field and sell Editor’s note: It’s a long-established its West Virginia assets. practice among newspapers from sea So who owns the local assets? EQT to shining sea to review the preceding bought some Tyler County acreage for year. It also helps to fill the news hole $407 million cash from Statoil. How- during a blessedly slow time between ever, the Norwegian oil giant retained Christmas and New Year’s. So here, its properties in Ohio. Antero, which without further ado, is a look back at had been concentrating on construction 2016 around the region. One may no- of a pipeline to move product from the tice this writer doesn’t follow the in- source to where it’s needed, bought out dustry norm of picking 10 stories and acreage from Southwestern Energy rehashing them. Instead this review Company. Southwestern remains active looks at 10 trends, or topics, across the in the northern West Virginia panhan- mid-Ohio Valley. dle. [Interestingly, Southwestern pur- OIL & GAS INDUSTRY chased Marcellus/Utica shale acreage for $394 million from Statoil back in From boom to near-bust to a cautious re- 2014.] Then Antero bought 11,500 deployment back to the Marcellus and acres from Statoil for $96 million. That Utica shales, the oil and gas business is was Statoil’s third Marcellus sale in slowly picking back up across the re- two years. Company reports indicate gion. Why? Because the Marcellus basin Past her prime, the sternwheeler Centennial is now a construction push boat. is one of the more lucrative reserve areas natural gas across the United States, the number of players in the field is dwin- the energy giant still holds about 350,000 net acres in the Marcellus in the United States, representing about rig count has inched up to a somewhatdling. Magnum Hunter has emerged shale natural gas basin. 18 percent of total U.S. gas production respectable 658 as of Dec. 30. Nowhere from bankruptcy after selling off their Appalachian assets. After announcing and remaining one of the more attractive near the 1931 rigs operating at the peak Although many rigs were idle, the com- shale basins in the United States, accord- in late June they were resuming opera- An officialpanies still owed property tax. of the most recent boom in 2014, but tions at Mary Field in Wetzel County, ing to industry experts. with West Virginia’s oil & gas associa- progress has been made, especially after the November election. Stone Energy couldn’t keep the wolves tion estimated tax revenues in the mil- From the historic low in May of just lions are due to Wetzel and Tyler from the door and filed for Chapter 11 404 drilling rigs exploring for oil andWhile the rig count is moving up, thein December, which includes plans to Continued on page 4 INDEX History of Sardis ferries 7 Area house fires 11 Familiar Face: Scott Northcraft, Oil & gas briefs 8-9 Warm for Winter needs volunteers 12 Seven Ranges Radio 3 Area crews braced for winter 10 Sen.-elect Maroney 13 Profiles of teen drug abuse 3 Student spotlight: Chelsey White 10 Events 14-15
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