Columbia Gas Pipeline Group has announced two pipeline projects, one of which will be called the Mountaineer Xpress Pipeline (MXP) and appears to start in Marshall County, WV.  The MXP will be part of a larger pipeline construction project intended to transport gas from the Marcellus and Utica Shales to the Gulf of Mexico.  This is great for us, as one of the issues plaguing oil and gas development in West Virginia is a lack of infrastructure to take the gas to market.

The MXP will transport gas from areas in and around the northern panhandle of West Virginia down to Kentucky. These are the best maps we could find so far.

They’re obviously lacking in detail, but we can at least get an idea of where the pipeline is going to run through West Virginia.  Interestingly, one of the Supply Areas of Interest is to the east of the wet/dry gas line.  Upshur, Barbour, Tucker, and Randolph counties are all included.  There’s precious little going on in those counties right now.  Maybe it’s going to pick up as this project picks up.  We’d like to see that.

We ran across an interesting post on a small local news web site called the Hur Herald.  David Hedges did some good research to pick up what’s going on over in his neck of the woods in relation to this pipeline.