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Utica shale and fracking news
- Dozen threats to water, air, land emerge as biggest shale-drilling risks
- EPA study on fracking threat to water will take years
- Speedy review of gas export process pledged by energy secretary
- Map, details emerge about proposed $1.5 billion gas pipeline that would cross swaths of area counties
- Kasich revising Ohio drilling-tax plan
- Companies facing state charges over illegal brine dumping in Ohio’s Belmont County
- Ohio accuses company of illegally dumping shale drilling brine waste
- Colorado energy processor expands in Ohio
- Shale money could result in reduced assessments for 500,000 property owners
- Security heavy at injection well meeting at Wingfoot Lake
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.
Gulfport, MarkWest complete agreement on Ohio facilities
On Monday, Oklahoma-based Gulfport Energy Corp. announced completion of an agreement with MarkWest Utica EMG LLC to build and operate gas-gathering pipelines and processing facilities tied to Gulfport's Utica-shale acreage in eastern Ohio.
MarkWest plans to process the natural gas at a complex in Harrison County and will provide fractionation or processing servces for natural-gas liquids in Harrison County.
Initially, MarkWest will bring on line in interim refrigeration gas-processing plant in the third quarter of 2012.
That facility will be followed by a 125 million cubic-feet-per-day permanent cryogenic gas-processing plant that is expected to begin operations by the first quarter of 2013, Gulfport reported.
An additional capacity of 200 million cubic feet per day of cryogenic capacity wil be available by early 2014.
MarkWest is expected to have about 60 miles of related pipelines to move Gulfport volumes by the end of 2012.
By 2014, MarkWest should have 140 miles of gas-gathering lines and 20,000 horesepower of compression, Gulfport said.
By early 2014, MarkWest's facilities will include 325 million cubic feet per day of cryogenic gas-processing capacity in Harrison County and 100,00 barrels per day of ethane fractionation.
MarkWest is also developing a second processing complex in Ohio's Noble County.
Interim capacity of 45 million cubic feet per day is expected. The plant should begin operations in the fourth quarter of 2012.
A permanent facility with a daily capacity of 200 million cubic feet per day should be operational by mid-2013.
The Harrison and Noble processing complexes will be tied via pipelines to the Harrison fractionation complex. It will have a capacity of 100,000 barrels per day by the first quarter of 2014.
The Harrison fractionation complex will be connected to MarkWest's Houston fractionation complex in western Pennsylvania.
The Houston and Harrison fractionation complexes will be the largest in the Northeast, Gulfport said.
Gulfport has drilled three horizontal wells in eastern Ohio.
MarkWest is not the only company planning processing facilities in eastern Ohio.
Chesapeake Midstream Development andf two partners, M3 Midstream (Momentum) and EV Energy Partners, have announced plans for a $900 million complex in Columbiana and Harrison counties.
A state-of-the-art cryogenic processing plant for natural gas with an initial capacity of 600 million cubic feet per day in planned in Columbiana County.
The natural gas liquids would go to a central hub in Harrison County where 90,000 barrels a day would be processed.
Processing could begin in the second quarter of 2013.
"Aside from the economic growth and increase in job creation we've already seen coming in from development, at this early stage in the play these investments are another great indicator of the future, long-term potential of Ohio's resources in the Uticas shale. These companies are investing for the long haul," he said.
