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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.
Marcellus producers see opportunities, despite low prices
Marcellus shale producers remain positive, despite today's low prices for natural gas, said speakers at an energy conference this week in New Orleans.
Pittsburgh-based EQT said it intends to stop drilling in West Virginia and Kentucky's Huron shale and to slightly scale back in the Marcellus shale of Pennsylvania.
The firm still intends to drill 132 Marcellus shale wells this year, focusing on Greene County in southwest Pennsylvania and Tioga County in the northeast for dry gas and Doddridge and Wetzel counties in West Virginia for gas and liquids.
Range Resources said it intends to spend 85 percent of its $1.6 billion capital budget for 2012 in the Marcellus, mostly in the wet gas area of southwestern Pennsylvania.
But 23 percent of those funds will spent in the dry gas area of northeast Pennsylvania, company officials said at the conference.
Consol Energy reported it intends to drill 99 wells in the Marcellus shale and 22 wells in the Utica shale this year, officials said,
In a related development,it appears that the yield from the Marcellus shale is likely close to some of the early optimistic projections, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports.
That based on new analysis by the private sector and university researchers who have been butting heads with federal officials over the potential yield of the Marcellus shale.
You can read the story here.
