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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.
Williams, Boardwalk developing new NGL pipeline to Gulf Coast
From Bloomberg News:
By Mike Lee - Mar 6, 2013 9:12 AM ET
Williams Cos. (WMB) and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP (BWP) agreed to develop a pipeline to carry natural gas liquids from booming shale formations in the Northeast to customers on the Gulf Coast.
The proposed 200,000 barrel-a-day pipeline would run fromWest Virginia to Kentucky where it would connect to Boardwalk’s existing Texas Gas Transmission system to Louisiana, the companies said in a statement today. The pipeline may be in service in the second half of 2015 and may be expanded to carry 400,000 barrels a day. The companies didn’t disclose the project’s cost.
Pipeline companies are building infrastructure to move gas and natural gas liquids out of the Marcellus and Utica shale formations. Petrochemical companies are proposing new plants on the Gulf Coast to take advantage of lower-cost feedstocks, like ethane. As part of this project, Boardwalk will convert its Texas Gas line to moving liquids.
“The current infrastructure challenge with natural gas liquids in the Northeast is slowing drilling and isolating liquids supplies from the robust markets in the Gulf that are poised to grow substantially over the next five years,” Alan Armstrong, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Williams, said in the statement.
Boardwalk Diversifying
The deal allows Houston-based Boardwalk to diversify into gas liquids, CEO Stan Horton said. Texas Gas’s existing customers will be served by other lines.
Texas Gas, portions of which are 65 years old, was built to carry the fuel from Texas and Louisiana to utilities and other customers in Ohio. In the past five years, output from the Marcellus and Utica shale in Pennsylvania and Ohio have reduced the need to ship gas to the U.S. Northeast.
Enterprise Products Partners LP, the second-biggest U.S. pipeline operator, is reversing a pipeline between Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and Mont Belvieu, Texas, to carry ethane from the Marcellus to chemical plants near Houston.
