Aubrey McClendon, chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., and John Surma, chairman and CEO of United States Steel, were in charge of the commissioning of the new CNG station. “Locally, the Marcellus Shale is a great opportunity for our company,” said Surma. He noted that the company is positioning itself to be able to serve all of the shale plays, reported Pittsburgh Business Times.
US Steel has 11 NGVs across the two facilities. In Irvin, the fleet includes a tractor, used to transport the heavy steel coils; an F-350 pickup used by the company’s emergency services and two Ford Transit Connect mini vans used to transport maintenance workers and mail between the company’s four Mon Valley sites.
According to McClendon, compressed natural gas filling stations across the country can be measured in the hundreds, but in five years that could grow to thousands or tens of thousands. Currently, in the Pittsburgh region there are seven private fuelling points and two public points offering CNG, an EQT station in the Strip and a Giant Eagle station in Crafton.
