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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.
Oklahoma firm buys into Marcellus shale, eyes Utica shale
A Oklahoma-based partnership, Williams Partners LP, is buying a natural gas pipeline and other facilities in the Marcellus shale for $2.5 billion in cash and stocks, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.
The deal also provides access for Williams Partners to the liquid-rich Utica shale in eastern Ohio.
The acquisition came from closely held Dallas-based Caiman Energy LLC and included pipelines, two natural gas-processing plants and a gas-liquids fractionator or processing plant.
"We intend to be the No. 1 or No. 2 player in the very large Marcellus basin and this moves as another step in that direction," said Williams CEO Alan Armstrong in a statement.
Caiman has agreements with 10 producers to gather and process gas and petroleum liquids from wells drilled on 236,000 acres in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Williams Partners may be handling as much as 5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day from the Marcellus shale by 2015, Armstrong said.
Most of that partnership is controlled by Williams Cos., based in Tulsa. The partnership is the third-largest U.S. pipeline partnership.
Williams Partners and Caiman intend to form a joint venture to build more pipelines and processing plants in the Utica shale.
The announcement is further proof that companies are confident enough in the potential of Ohio's Utica shale to invest heavily in the needed infrastructure to transport and process the gas-oil.
