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Utica shale and fracking news
- 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
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Chesapeake awaiting pipelines, processing plants for Utica shale natural gas
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.
Anadarko releases Ohio Utica results
Ohio has natural gas production data from a second company, and the data is encouraging. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. released preliminary data on three wells it has drilled in eastern Ohio, and the results are promising, the Texas-based firm said. The data was provided to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and released to the media on Thursday. The newest well, the Brookfield A-3H well in Noble County, delivered 9,500 barrels of crude oil and 12 million cubic feet of natural gas during its first 20 days in production, the company said. Two wells in Guernsey County — Spencer A-1H and Spencer A-5H — produced a combined 20,000 barrels of crude oil and 37 million cubic feet of natural gas in two months, the company said. The Houston-based firm also has permits to drill in Muskingum County. "Though it is very early in our exploration program, the strong initial results are encouraging," Bob Daniels, a senior vice president at Anadarko, said in a company-issued statement. "We expect to begin flowing back our fourth Utica exploration well in the next few days and are currently drilling our fifth exploration well in the play," he said. "We plan to continue an active drilling program throughout the year, as we evaluate the liquids-rich potential of our 390,000-acre position in the Utica shale." All three wells were drilled to a vertical depth of about 6,500 feet and a horizontal length of about 5,000 feet, the company said. Anadarko operates the Brookfield and Spencer wells with a 100 percent working interest, subject to a participation agreement with Artex Energy Group LLC. On April 2, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources’ Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management released the first official production data covering 2011 from nine Utica wells in Ohio. That data covered nine horizontal wells drilled by Chesapeake Appalachia LLC. There were six wells in Carroll County and one each in Portage, Harrison and Mahoning counties. Five of those wells were in production in 2011 and generated nearly 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas, plus 43,513 barrels of The other four wells were not in production but did produce some oil. The preliminary production for all the wells for natural gas was very high, state officials said The reported volumes of oil are lower than estimated, but higher than conventional wells, the state reported. Until April 2. most production data had been tightly held by drilling companies, although Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. had provided some data on select wells in 2011.
