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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.
Chesapeake, two partners to build $900 million facilities in eastern Ohio
Oklahoma-based Chesapeake Energy Corp, announced today that it will work through a subsidiary and two partners to build new facilities worth $900 million in eastern Ohio to process natural gas and natural gas liquids like ethane, butane and propane.
The natural gas-processing plant would be built in Columbiana County and have an initial capacity of 600 million cubic feet per day. It would be a state-of-the-art cryogenic processing facility.
The natural gas liquids would be delivered to a central hub complex in Harrison County that will feature a storage facility with a capacity of 870,000 42-gallon barrels and fractionation capacity of 90,000 barrels per day. The facility would include a significant rail-loading facility.
The two plants would create "hundreds of high-quality, well-paying new jobs for Ohioans," one official said.
The partners in the deal for the needed infrastructure to process natural gas and the lucrative liquids are Chesapeake Midstream Development LP, M3 Midstream LLC and EV Energy Partners.
The French energy company Total E&P USA has an option to join in the deal.
It had earlier joined with Chesapeake and Texas-based EnerVest Ltd. and owns a share of the Utica holdings in eastern Ohio.
Chesapeake called the two-county complex the largest integrated midstream service complex in eastern Ohio.
The Columbiana County plant's cryogenic and fractionation facilities could be in operation in the second q1uarter of 2013. Engineering and procurement are already under way.
No specific locations were announced for the two plants in the two-page announcement. Local reports say the Columbiana County plant will be near Hanoverton.
