Ohio may get a natural gas refinery in the future, if Dominion has anything to do with it.

According to Dan O’Brein at The Business Journal, Dominion is scouting locations in Ohio to build a natural gas processing plant to handle the increasing volume of natural gas harvested from Ohio’s Utica Shale formation.

If Dominion does decide to construct a refinery in Ohio, it could mean jobs for residents.

By the end of 2012, the company is planning on opening a refinery in West Virginia.

Here’s an excerpt:

Dominion Resources is constructing a $500 million processing plant in Natrium, W. Va., just south of Wheeling in Marshall County. The plant is scheduled to come online by the end of this year, and would be capable of processing natural gas liquids extracted from the Marcellus shale in western Pennsylvania and the Utica, a tight rock formation buried thousands of feet below eastern Ohio.

The Natrium plant is expected to employ 44 full time, 34 hourly and 10 in management, Mordal said. Temporary construction jobs could swell to as many as 800 during the mid-summer construction season as the company completes the operation, he reported.

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