Richard Weber, the PennEnergy chairman & CEO, talks with state Rep. Stephenie Scialabba, R-12th at the ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, May 17, held in the company’s Cranberry Township headquarters. Shane Potter/Butler Eagle

CRANBERRY TWP — PennEnergy Resources opened its headquarters in the township Wednesday, May 17, with a ribbon-cutting at its new 40,000-square-foot suite at 3000 Westinghouse Drive.

“We’re thrilled to be in Butler, a substantial portion of our operations are in Butler County,” said Richard Weber, company CEO and chairman. “We’re also very active in Beaver and in Armstrong counties, and we’re probably the most active producer in each of those three counties.

“We love being right here — it’s so central to our operation.”

The company’s decision to settle in the township was in part motivated by a desire to centralize, according to Weber.

“Our headquarters were in Robinson Township in Allegheny County, where we’ve been headquartered since we founded in the company in 2011, but we had a satellite office in Cranberry as well,” Weber said. “And it just so happened that both our leases were coming to an end this year, and we knew that we wanted to consolidate, and we knew we wanted to be in Cranberry.”