With the launch of Mountain V Oil & Gas, President and CEO Mike Shaver was gifted with a prediction he’ll never forget from his business partner. The year was 1994. The place, the mountains of W.V. That business partner? Shaver’s dad who put these words into the universe, “If we can make it through the first three years, we got it made.” And, boy, did they. ...

The old phrase “If these walls could talk,” suggests that a building, house, or even a single room, harbors the history of that place as inanimate witnesses of the past. If you’re hip to that concept, then the nation’s oldest natural gas pipelines also have stories worth discovery. This is one of the latest. ...