Storage hub conference scheduled June 7 in Southpointe
The Appalachian Storage Hub, a $10 billion infrastructure project that is a key to gas and oil production in the Marcellus and Utica shales, will be the focus of a conference June 7 at Hilton Garden Inn Pittsburgh/Southpointe.
This will be the second annual conference in the mixed-use park. Speakers and panelists will discuss the concept of a midstream hydrocarbon storage system, which could attract additional petrochemical investment and growth in a region where Shell is building an ethane cracker plant. There is potential to draw other crackers, in addition to the one under construction in Beaver County, plus more chemical and plastics manufacturing.
“The Appalachian Storage Hub opportunities are real. They are not just on our region’s wish list, they are happening,” said Joe Barone, Shale Directories president, who has organized the conference with TopLine Analytics CEO Tom Gellrich.
Registration will begin at 8 a.m. and the event will run from 8:45 to about 3:30 p.m. Four panel discussions are planned. Among the topics: Appalachian Basin shale gas revolution; the need for the storage hub and its economic growth potential; what state governments are doing and what still must be done; and comparisons between the Appalachian Basin and Gulf Coast.
To register, visit www.appastorage.com. For sponsorship information, email jbarone@shaledirectories.com. For other information, contact Gellrich at tom.gellrich@toplineanalytics.com or 267-205-1263.