Marcellus Drilling News

OH 2012 Utica Production: A Slow Start, but Still Hopeful

willisja — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:30:07 +0000

Ohio finally released 2012 Utica Shale production numbers for oil and gas yesterday. It’s tough to summarize those numbers in a simple statement, but if we had to, we’d say...

MDN Editorial Note: Just One Story Today

willisja — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:27:45 +0000

Dear MDN Readers: Today we have a single story–about the newly released numbers from the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources detailing the Utica Shale production numbers for 2012. It’s a big...

OH Utica Production Numbers for 2012 Coming TODAY

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:25:30 +0000

The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources will release the long-awaited Utica Shale production numbers for 2012 at 2:00 pm today, Thursday, May 16. The Youngstown Business Journal issued this bulletin...

New Duke/USGS Study: Fracking Does Not Contaminate Well Water

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:18:12 +0000

A new study by Duke University researchers and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) finds “no evidence of groundwater contamination from shale gas production in Arkansas.” The study,...

OH Landowners May be Able to Reclaim Severed Mineral Rights

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:17:04 +0000

Are you an Ohio landowner who doesn’t own the mineral rights under your property (those rights being previously separated or “severed”), but you want to? According to Ohio’s Dormant...

“Wheeling Water Warriors” Oppose GreenHunter Wastewater Facility

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:16:01 +0000

You just have to marvel at the creativity of anti-drillers. Get a half dozen of them in a room and they’ll name themselves something funny and then pretend to have hundreds of followers. The...

Columbia Gas Seeks Approval for 2 PA Marcellus Pipeline Projects

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:15:48 +0000

Columbia Gas Transmission submitted applications to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission last Friday to get approval for two pipeline upgrade projects to take advantage of the huge production...

ODNR Approves 22 More Utica Permits, Grand Total Now 660

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:14:42 +0000

The new grand total for permits to drill in the Ohio Utica Shale has hit 660 as of the latest Dept. of Natural Resources report. Another 22 new permits were issued as of last week. Here’s the...

Cincinnati City Council Wants to Ban OH Wastewater Injection Wells

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:13:37 +0000

Agitated for by the odious anti-drilling group Food & Water Watch and supported by elected Democrats, the Cincinnati City Council yesterday passed a resolution calling for a statewide ban on...

New Pipeline Construction Coming to Broome County, NY

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:12:28 +0000

Last week MDN told you that one of New York State’s largest natural gas transmission pipelines, the Millennium, is planning to build a couple of new connectors to other pipelines running...

Hanger, O-R Support Redistribution of Drilling Wealth in PA

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:11:20 +0000

Apparently John Hanger, former Secretary of the PA Dept. of Environmental Protection under Gov. Ed Rendell, wants to tax the successful Marcellus drilling industry in his state into being far less...

Marcellus & Utica Shale Story Links: Thu, May 16, 2013

willisja — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:10:42 +0000

The “best of the rest” – stories that caught MDN’s eye that you may be interested in reading: New York How frack waste will travel The Chronicle These maps from a permit application by XTO Energy, a...

Poll: PA Residents Support Fracking & Moratorium Too…Say What?

willisja — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:29:23 +0000

Huh. Talk about schizophrenia… A poll of Pennsylvania residents conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan and Muhlenberg College last fall Please Login to view this Content. (Not a...

New EPA Rule Regulates Fracking via Back Door of Chemical Reporting

willisja — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:28:19 +0000

It appears that once again the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making a play at regulating oil and gas drilling, an activity specifically left to Please Login to view this Content....

Fire at Williams Compressor Station in Susquehanna County, PA

willisja — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:27:17 +0000

A fire broke out at a natural gas compressor station owned and operated by Williams in Brooklyn Township (Susquehanna County), PA last night. Please Login to view this Content. (Not a member? Join...