Natural gas production, particularly Marcellus Shale gas, has seen a dramatic increase over the last several years.

“It is amazing to consider how rapidly production has risen in recent years: For instance, the 33 percent rise in production that occurred just between 2012 and 2013 is significantly higher than anyone would have expected a few years ago,” said John Deskins, director of the Bureau of Business and Economic Research at West Virginia University. “More generally, performance has been consistently outstripping expectations in recent years.

“We expect production to continue to rise at a very rapid pace, growing at a rate that is well into the double-digits and that vastly exceeds the state's overall economic growth rate,” he added.

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