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Utica shale and fracking news
- 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
- Ohio injection well operator fights state action
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.
Railroad to haul natural gas liquids from Scio plant
Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, the Columbus & Ohio River Rail Road Co., has signed a long-term agreement to haul natural gas liquids from a new fractionation hub in Ohio's Harrison County.
The rail agreement was signed with Utica East Ohio Midstream LLC. It is a partnership with Chesapeake Energy and two other companies: M3 Midstream LLC (Momentum) and EV Energy Partners, both based in Texas.
Chesapeake Energy is selling off its interest to Global Infrastructure Partners for $2 billion, but that deal has not yet closed.
Utica East Midstream is building a $900 million complex: a natural gas processing plant in Kensington in Columbiana County and a fractionation plant to separate natural gas liquids in Scio in Harrison County. They will be conected by pipelines.
The railroad will construct a new 1-mile rail siding and rehabilitate a 3-mile storage track.
Plans call for shipping 10,000 carloads of natural gas liquids from Scio annually.
Until the Scio plant opens in May, the new operation will benefit from a recent $2 million expansion of the railroad's main rail yard in Newark.
That was funded by a public-private partenrship between the railroad and ther state of Ohio.
The Newark expansion will facilitate the sorting of 100,000 rail cars per year for more than 80 customers and will serve several proposed Utica shale projects along the rail line, officials said..
