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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.
Pennsylvania lawmakers are reportedly behind LNG exporting
From the Houston Chronicle via the Center for Liquified Natural Gas:
Houston Chronicle: Pennsylvania lawmakers make case for LNG exports
Pennsylvania state lawmakers eager to support natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation are pleading with the Obama administration to fast-track industry requests to widely export the fossil fuel.
In a letter to President Barack Obama, nine Pennsylvania House members and 18 state senators insisted that allowing those exports to Japan and other nations will sustain a domestic drilling boom, raise tax dollars and spur job growth across the United States.
“Selling (liquefied natural gas) into the global marketplace is not only necessary for businesses but would create more American jobs, increase demand and spur more production without significantly impacting domestic prices,” the lawmakers said.
The Pennsylvania lawmakers also insisted that if the government green lights exports of liquefied natural gas from existing receiving terminals and newly proposed plants, it would benefit the U.S. trade balance while “providing the world with increased access to a cleaner and more reliable source of energy” than coal.
The Pennsylvanians’ push comes as the Obama administration weighs whether to grant applications from 15 countries to export up to 21.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas daily to countries that don’t have free trade agreements with the United States.
Unlike oil, natural gas prices aren’t set on a global market, and the cost in some Asian and European markets can be three to five times higher than in the U.S. Natural gas producers are eager to tap into those lucrative new markets, and some analysts say that the new customers and competition will lift prices just enough to sustain drilling that could be non-economic otherwise.
But chemical and manufacturing industry leaders insist that if the Energy Department approves too many of those export licenses, natural gas prices would be pushed too high, jeopardizing some $90 billion in planned capital spending by the sector.
A government-commissioned study issued in December concluded that even unlimited exports would broadly benefit the U.S. with up to $47 billion in new economic activity. But that net positive benefit would come with some casualties, including price increases for companies that are big users of energy produced by burning natural gas or are heavily reliant on the fossil fuel as a building block for producing chemicals, fertilizers and other products.
American manufacturers currently enjoy a competitive cost advantage when it comes to the fossil fuel and producing energy-intensive goods, because of the relatively low price of natural gas in the U.S.
