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Utica shale and fracking news
- Ohio injection well operator fights state action
- Muskingum district sells more water from reservoir for use in fracking
- Utica shale analyzed in Ohio
- Oil ventures could tap Utica shale in Stark, Tuscarawas counties
- Ohio is getting first cryogenic processing plant at Cadiz for natural gas from Utica shale
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Injection wells are efficient for liquid waste disposal from drilling, supporters say
- Gulfport aggressive on Ohio drilling prospects
- Anti-fracking amendment rejected in Youngstown
- New natural gas pipeline could run from Utica shale region through Akron area to Detroit, Ontario
- Anti-fracking amendment on ballot in Youngstown
Utica and Marcellus shale web sites
Ohio Department of Natural Resources' Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management State agency Web site.ODNR Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management. State drilling permits. List is updated weekly.
ODNR Division of Geological Survey.
Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.
Ohio State University Extension.
Ohio Farm Bureau.
Ohio Oil and Gas Association, a Granville-based group that represents 1,500 Ohio energy-related companies.
Ohio Oil & Gas Energy Education Program.
Energy In Depth, a trade group.
Marcellus and Utica Shale Resource Center by Ohio law firm Bricker & Eckler.
Utica Shale, a compilation of Utica shale activities.
Landman Report Card, a site that looks at companies involved in gas and oil leases.FracFocus, a compilation of chemicals used in fracking individual wells as reported voluntarily by some drillers.
Chesapeake Energy Corp,the Oklahoma-based firm is the No. 1 driller in Ohio.
Rig Count Interactive Map by Baker Hughes, an energy services company.
Shale Sheet Fracking, a Youngstown Vindicator blog.
National Geographic's The Great Shale Rush.
The Ohio Environmental Council, a statewide eco-group based in Columbus.
Earthjustice, a national eco-group.
People's Oil and Gas Collaborative-Ohio, a grass-roots group in Northeast Ohio.
Concerned Citizens of Medina County, a grass-roots group.
No Frack Ohio, a Columbus-based grass-roots group.
Fracking: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat by ProPublica, an online journalism site.
Pipeline, blog from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Marcellus shale drilling.
Allegheny Front, environmental public radio for Western Pennsylvania.
Will shale revolution lead to oil finds larger than Eagle Ford?
How many more major shale fields remain to be discovered and tapped in the United States?
Starr Spencer at Platts' The Barrel blog thinks it's likely lots more significant shale discoveries will be made in the very near future.
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Don't let fracking ruin Germany's beer industry
Finally, a genuine reason to want to ban fracking: It theatens Germany's beer makers. (OK, don't shoot the snarky/tongue-in-cheek blog-post messenger!)
The Telegraph newspaper in Great Britain writes: "The [German] Brauer-Bund beer association is worried that fracking for shale gas, which involves pumping water and chemicals at high pressure into the ground, could pollute water used for brewing and break a 500-year-old industry rule on water purity."
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U.S. racing against shale gas clock
Exporting liquified natural gas created from fracked shale in the United States will lead to economic benefits even as some warn shale does not have a long-term future, writes Daniel Graeber at OilPrice.com.
"MIT physicist Ernest Moniz became the new energy secretary this week after sailing through the nomination process relatively unscathed.
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How shale energy forecasts changed the world sooner than we thought
Too wrong for too long? Production predictions just two years ago about shale energy have proven to be way off, writes Sandy Fielden at RBN Energy LLC.
Fielden: "If we look back to see what folk were forecasting for North American energy markets two years ago in 2011 and then compare that to today’s actual data and forecast, what would that tell us about the changing pace of North American energy production?
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S&P looks at shale impact on industries
Standard & Poor's has a new report out on the impact of shale energy on various industrial sectors.
S&P says in a press release: "A report released by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, titled 'Game Changer: Industry Winners And Losers From The U.S. Shale Revolution,' looks at the effects of the shale boom--whether they be positive, negative, or mixed--on a variety of industries.
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