Pittsburgh-based Babst Calland has opened an Akron, Ohio, office in the hopes of better serving its clients in a natural gas industry that is largely shifting its focus away from Northeastern Pennsylvania and toward Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

As The Legal has previously reported, drilling in Northeastern Pennsylvania has become a costly proposition because the shale in the region predominantly contains “dry” gas — gas that is almost pure methane — the value of which remains in the paltry range of about $2 per 1,000 cubic feet.

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