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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.
Gas-processing plants in the works
Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday touted the economic potential of Ohio's Utica shale in his State of the State speech in Steubenville.
The governor also announced plans for two gas-processing facilities: one in Harrison County and one in Monroe County.
MarkWest Energy Partners LP is partnering with the Energy & Minerals Group to form MarkWest Utica EMG LLC on the two projects that will together cost about $500 million.
The project calls for two so-called processors that will separate natural gas from oils and wet gases like butane, propane and ethane from Ohio's Utica shale. A third unit, a fractionation complex, will separate the oils from ethanes, a key ingredient in making plastics.
Construction of the two plants and connecting pipelines is expected to create about 700 construction jobs. The plants will employ about 40.
The companies have not identified locations but have said they hope to have the plants operating in 2013.
The Harrison County complex would process up to 200 million cubic feet of gas per day and 100,000 42-gallon barrels of oil and other liquids per day, MarkWest Energy said. The Monroe County complex is still under design.
Additional processing complexes are anticipated as drilling develops in eastern Ohio, the company said.
Here's a link to the company's announcement.
