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attendees begins at 8:00 a.m., prior to the 9:00 a.m. conference beginning. Special invited guest speakers include Governor Justice, Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito. In addition, we will have presentations from industry leaders.
The 2020 and 2021 Oil & Gas Reclamation Award recipients will be honored during lunch and a presentation will be made at that time to the Oil & Gas Museum.
Please see page 29 to register for the meeting, or www.gowv.com. If you have questions, please contact Lori Miller Smith at 304-344-9867.
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2022 GO-WV Scholarship deadline is March 18, 2022; open Jan. 4, 2022
In 1997, the Independent Oil and Gas Association of West Virginia, Inc. (now the Gas and Oil Association of WV, Inc. - GO-WV) established its Scholarship Program in an effort to become more involved in higher education in West Virginia. The Scholarship Program was specifically created to reward the outstanding scholastic achievements of high school seniors whose parents work in the oil and natural gas industry for association membership companies. The Association also awards deserving high school “student employees” who have completed a required number of working hours at an association member company.
Beginning in 2020, two annual one-time, $1,000 scholarships were sponsored by ConServ Incorporated. They are for students who are choosing a career path that benefits the oil and gas industry in a vocational/technical field such as, but not limited to, welder, truck driver, well tender, electrician, mechanic, etc.
Since the GO-WV Scholarship Program’s inception, $180,500 has been awarded to these very deserving students. Complete eligibility rules and documents for both scholarship types begin on page __ or at https://gowv.com/education/scholarship/ and will be sent to all member companies.
The completed application, including all required forms and information, must be signed by the high school counselor and postmarked no later than March 18, 2022. GO-WV will accept completed applications between Jan. 4, 2022 and March 18, 2022. From all the applications received, a GO-WV Scholarship Review Committee will award a number of one-time only scholarships.
Here is a quick glance at those rules: 1. Applicant must be a West Virginia high school senior. 2. Applicant must be a dependent of an employee/retiree of a GO-WV Company in good standing OR be employed by a GO-WV
Company in good standing (Student employee must have worked a minimum of 400 hours
is the past calendar year. Validation of hours worked and a letter of recommendation from the employer must be provided). 3. Applicant must enroll in a four-year West
Virginia college or university or a community college/vocational-technical school. 4. Applicant must compose an essay answering the question asked on the application form. 5. Application must be signed by the high school counselor. 6. The completed application and all documentation requested must be postmarked no later than Friday, March 18, 2022.
GO-WV will accept completed applications postmarked between Jan. 4 and March 18, 2022. From all the applications received, a GO-WV Scholarship Review Committee will award a number of one-time only scholarships. Should you have any questions, please contact Katie McCracken at 304-344-9867 or kmccracken@gowv. com.
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Shale production processing plants in West
Virginia, Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania to the Midwest Hub near Defiance,
Ohio, for delivery to markets across the U.S., as well as to the Union Gas Dawn Storage
Hub in Ontario, Canada. • TC Energy’s Leach Xpress was placed in-service in January 2018. The pipeline has the capacity to transport 1.5 billion cubic feet/ day (Bcf/d) of natural gas to Southeast and
Gulf Coast supply markets. • Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) is over 90% complete and can transport 2.0 Bcf/d capacity from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia. Originally scheduled for completion by the end of 2018, it now has a target in-service date of summer 2022 while working through water crossing approvals and the lifting of a remaining exclusion zone around the Jefferson National Forest.
But there have also been disappointments like the loss of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) in early July 2020. Dominion Energy and Duke Energy announced the cancellation due to ongoing delays, increasing cost, and regulatory uncertainty that compromised its economic viability. The ACP would have started in Harrison County West Virginia and ran through Lewis, Upshur, Randolph, and Pocahontas Counties. This was a pipeline designed to transport 1.5 Bcf/d of West Virginia produced natural gas.
So why are these pipelines so important to the industry, West Virginia, and the Nation? Because they move gas to markets in the southeast, New England and Midwest and are critical to fueling economic growth while helping states reach their climate goals. Statistics show that in North Carolina, for example, natural gas use for electricity generation grew 13-fold from 2005-2018, and one in every four homes depends on natural gas for heating.
To continue driving economic growth, keeping the lights on and achieving clean air progress in West Virginia, we need a business-friendly environment that attracts pipeline infrastructure development and related downstream investments like manufacturing and future power generation. We must prioritize making improvements in our country’s pipeline infrastructure network for the sake of all West Virginians, our nation’s energy security, and our world’s environmental well-being.
If we are to continue being successful, we must commit to working with our national congressional delegation to ensure they and others see the value in expanding and building new pipelines, transmission systems, and processing facilities to deliver more affordable, safe, and reliable energy. We must work with like-minded allies to find a way to collectively thwart the negative outcry from the anti-fossil fuel crowd and be the driver in national energy policy change.
With all this said, the future of oil and natural gas development and pipeline projects into the future cannot be the whimsical “pipe dream” but must be a true PIPE DREAM!!! You see, my definition includes an embracing of returning to being not just being energy independent but being energy dominate and providing this much-needed energy to the world. We were there and we can return. It may take until after the mid-term national elections…but we can return.
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importantly, the opportunity to remain at home in West Virginia.
Just like your companies, Diversified Energy is working to create opportunities for West Virginians. We currently employ more than 1,200 throughout our states of operation with over 400 employees in West Virginia, and we continue to pursue opportunities to enhance and build our talented workforce.
I, and I hope you, remain bullish on the future of the natural gas and oil industry in West Virginia and the United States. We are privileged to be a part of supplying energy to our country in a way that is also improving our environment.
I am proud of our talented, hardworking West Virginia employees and look forward to working alongside you to build the industry’s workforce of tomorrow.
Happy Thanksgiving from the officers, board and staff of GO-WV to your family!
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CHARLESTON, WV I PITTSBURGH, PA I SEWELL, NJ STATE COLLEGE, PA I WASHINGTON, DC 100% weather-dependent energy. We need to break their bubble and remind them and the public that windmills, solar panels and electric cars are petrochemical products. They can’t exist without oil, natural gas and hydraulic fracturing. Educating our employees and the public is essential. The truth is our ally.
At VOGA, Dominion did a presentation on “environmental justice” and what me may have to deal with as an industry. I challenged Dominion and other attendees to look at “environmental justice” differently. Gasoline prices are up over $1 from a year ago thanks to shutting down the Keystone Pipeline and other attacks on our industry. That increase hurts those who can least afford it, like the single mom who works in a doctor’s office with my wife and travels 120 miles round trip to work. When rolling blackouts happen in California, the Hollywood elite can have generators or the means to leave while the common people are in the dark. When energy prices increase, ALL prices increase - especially food.
Attacks on the natural gas and oil industry use the environment as an excuse and attack the poor, the middle class (many are minorities) and especially seniors on fixed incomes who are most likely to die in their homes when the power goes off. Many of these people may need to make the decision between eating and heating. Without natural gas as a safety net, if the “antis’s” are successful, how will people afford to replace their natural gas appliances and pay higher electric bills? That doesn’t sound like justice at all. On a cold snowy winter night when the lights and heat go off as they will without a safety net, people will suffer. That doesn’t sound like justice at all. Without the natural gas industry, we can expect massive manufacturing job losses and increased foreign imports, especially from China. That doesn’t sound like environmental justice at all.
It is time to help manufacturers, retailers, senior citizens groups and others, like our employees, to understand the importance of the safety net natural gas and oil provide. We can have affordable, dependable energy and a clean environment. All things are possible.
2022 Technical & Vocational
Scholarship Application
Last Name First Name MI Date of Birth
Mailing Address
City State Zip Code SS Number
Home Phone
High School High School Phone Number
My Parent/Guardian works for a GO-WV Company
Parent/Guardian Name _ GO-WV Company
I Work for a GO-WV Company (referral letter attached) GO-WV Company
Graduation Date:
Chosen Vocation/Career: Awards Assembly Date & Time:
Chosen School:
SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: 1. Applicant must be a West Virginia high school senior choosing a career path that benefits the oil and gas industry. 2. Applicant must be a dependent of an employee OR be employed by a GO-WV Company in good standing. (Student employee must have worked a minimum of 400 hours. Validation of hours worked and a letter of recommendation from the employer must be included with this application.) 3. Applicant must be enrolling in a West Virginia community college or vocational / technical trade school. 4. Applicant must complete both pages of this form. 5. Applicant must ensure that this application and all necessary documents are postmarked no later than
Friday, March 18, 2022.
ATTENTION STUDENT:
After completing both pages of this form, deliver these documents to your high school counselor.
ATTENTION SCHOOL COUNSELOR: 1. Please write a letter stating why you, or the student’s technical or vocational course instructor, recommend the student for this scholarship. 2. Mail the recommendation letter, all pages of this application, and the student’s transcript of grades to the address below postmarked on or before before March 18, 2022.
Student’s guidance counselor’s signature
PLEASE NOTE: ONE SIDED COPIES ONLY – NO STAPLES! Please feel free to add extra sheets if needed.
Gas and Oil Association of WV, Inc. Attention: Katie McCracken 300 Summers Street, Suite 820, Charleston WV 25301
2022 Scholarship Application
Last Name Mailing Address City Home Phone Number Date of Birth First Name
State Social Security Number Zip Code
College/University Planning to Attend
High School High School Phone Number
My Parent/Guardian works for a GO-WV Company
Parent/Guardian Name GO-WV Company I Work for a GO-WV Company (referral letter attached) GO-WV Company MI
Graduation Date
Awards Assembly Date & Time If you filed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), what is the amount of your Expected Family Contribution (EFC) as reported to you on the Student Aid Report (SAR)? $ .
SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS:
1. Applicant must be a West Virginia high school senior. 2. Applicant must be a dependent of an employee/retiree of a GO-WV Company in good standing OR be employed by a GO-WV Company in good standing (Student employee
must have worked a minimum of 400 hours. Validation of hours worked and a letter of
recommendation from the employer must be provided). 3. Applicant must enroll in a four-year West Virginia college or university. 4. Applicant must compose a 300-500 word essay answering the question: “Describe your community’s perception of the Oil and Gas Industry and explain how you would improveit.” 5. Application must be signed by a high school counselor. 6. Mail the application with all activity and course forms (listed below), essay, transcript and ACT scores as instructed below. This must be postmarked on or before Friday, March 18,2022.
ATTENTION STUDENT:
List your advanced placement and honors courses, organizations, volunteer and extra-curricular school activities with which you were affiliated during the four years of high school on the appropriate forms (Advanced Placement and Honors Courses, Extracurricular School Activities, Community Service and Non-School Activities - Including Employment). Please deliver these forms along with your completed application and essay to your high school counselor.
ATTENTION SCHOOL COUNSELOR:
Please sign this application and mail it along with the student’s essay, transcripts, ACT scores, and activity and course forms to the address below postmarked on or before March 18, 2022.
Student’s guidance counselor’s signature
PLEASE NOTE: ONE SIDED COPIES ONLY – NO STAPLES!
Gas and Oil Association of WV, Inc. Attention: Katie McCracken 300 Summers Street, Suite 820, Charleston WV 25301
Grade Level
Advanced Placement and Honors Courses
Course
Grade Level
Activity Estimated Hours per Year
TOTAL HOURS
Grade Level
Extracurricular School Activities
Activity Estimated Hours per Year
TOTAL HOURS
DMV-54-GO Rev 05/21
West Virginia Department of Transportation Division of Motor Vehicles
1-800-642-9066 dmv.wv.gov
PLATE SAMPLE
A) Applicant/Owner(s) Information ·
Use Name(s) of Owner(s) as shown exactly on current registration card that you wish to register the license plate.
B)B)Vehicle Vehicle I Informationnformation
Applicant’s Name
Name(s) on Registration
Street Address
CITY STATE ZIP
Make Year Title No.
VIN No.
C) Insurance Information
E ective Dates of Policy From:
Insurance Company
NAIC Number / / To: / /
Insurance Agent Current Plate No.
Policy No.
D) Applicant Certi cation
I certify that all information on this application is true and correct and if I cease to be in good standing with the above organization, I will immediately return the special license plate to the Division of Motor Vehicles.
(X)
SIGNATURE OF APPLICANT
E) Application Information
DATE Phone No. ( )
1. Anyone is eligible to apply for a Gas & Oil Association of WV license plate. 2. A vehicle must be Class A and have a West Virginia title and license plate in the name of the applicant before a special plate can be issued. 3. The current license plate must be returned to the Division of Motor Vehicles after the special plate is received. After issuance of the special plate, the exchanged plate is canceled and cannot be transferred to another vehicle. There are no refunds. 4. A $91.50 fee will cover the cost of the license plate for the 1st year or a portion of the 1st year. This is a at fee for all applicants and is not prorated. This plate will expire on July 1st every year and have a renewal fee of $66.50. 5. Send the application and the $91.50 check or money order payable to Gas & Oil Association of WV at the address listed below. Please include your personal property tax receipt or an a davit from the assessor if your registartion is expiring within 60 days of your application.
Gas & Oil Association of WV c/o Charlie Burd 300 Summers St. Suite 820 Charleston, WV 25301
*** OFFICE USE ONLY BELOW THIS LINE
OFFICE STAFF INSTRUCTIONS:
Insert the plate numbers on the plate diagram to the left and submit this form to the WV DMV for recording and processing. Be sure to retain a copy for your records.
2021 GO-WV DriveSAFE Safety Seminar Registration Form
December 8 or December 10, 2021 | 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
____________________________________________________________________________________ Company Name
____________________________________________________________________________________ Address
____________________________________________________________________________________ City, State, Zip
____________________________________________________________________________________ Telephone
Participant Member Y/N Email
Lunch is included in the registration fee. Attendance is limited to 25 people at each event.
Registering for: _____ December 8, Berry Hills Country Club, Charleston _____ December 10, Bridgeport Country Club, Bridgeport
Registration Fees @ $75 per person $ _________ TOTAL $ _________ Please click here to register and pay online or mail registration with payment by December 1, 2021, to: GO-WV, 300 Summers Street, Suite 820, Charleston, WV 25301 For additional information, call Lori Miller Smith at (304) 344-9867. No refunds after December 1, 2021.
