CITIZEN POWER ALLIANCE

Talisman Energy, the Canadian parent company of Fortuna Energy in Big Flats, plans to open an office in Pittsburgh that will focus on the company's growing Marcellus Shale drilling operations in Pennsylvania.

Fortuna spokesman Mark Scheuerman said some of the jobs at the Fortuna office will be transferred to the Pittsburgh office, which will be called Talisman USA.

But he also said the Big Flats office will remain open to handle the company's extensive land holdings in New York and monitor the gas production from its Trenton-Black River wells.

"Talisman Energy is going to establish a U.S. office in Pittsburgh and that's the extent of what's been determined," Scheuerman said Monday afternoon.

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