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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.
Marathon Petroleum has Utica shale plans
Marathon Petroleum president Gary Heminger on Thursday predicted a great future for oil in Ohio's Utica shale, according to Marcellus Drilling News.
Oil production in eastern Ohio is currently 2,000 to 3,000 42-gallon barrels per day, he said during a Hancock County Republican Party dinner.
Other locations measure oil production in the tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of barrels per day, he said.
"It's early in the game, but we think (Utica) has great potential," he said.
Most of the crude oil from the Utica shale in eastern Ohio is being purchased by Marathon and refined at its Canton refinery, Heminger said.
It is turned into gasoline, diesel and other petroleum-based products.
Marathon, he said, is ready to accelerate its purchasing and refining of Utica oil.
At the suggestion of crude producers, it has invested in a 12,000-barrel-per-day truck unloading rack in Canton, he said.
"We expect to increase that to 24,000 barrels per day by next summer," he said.
Then some crude will go to terminals in Steubenville and Wellsville on the Ohio River to be shipped via barges to Marathon's refinery in Catlettsburg, Ky.
At its two refineries in Ohio and Kentucky, Marathon can handle 150,000 barrels per day, he said.
The proximity of Marathon refineries to the Utica oil reduce shipping costs and provide a financial advantage, he said.
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