GreenHunter Energy, Inc., a diversified water resource management company specializing in the unconventional oil and gas shale resource plays, reported that its wholly-owned subsidiary, GreenHunter Water, LLC, has entered into a five year lease for an existing truck and barge transloading and water storage facility located in Washington County, Ohio.

The existing facility and infrastructure is ideally positioned on the Ohio River in the heart of the Marcellus and evolving Utica Shale resource plays and will serve as a strategic operating base for GreenHunter's Appalachia water management businesses.

Originally constructed in 1966 by Mobil Oil, the approximate 10 acre facility contains 70,000 barrels (BBL) of functional bulk liquids storage tank capacity, a barge transloading station, a covered loading station with multiple truck servicing bays and office space.

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