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Northeast Ohio...Ashtabula County...Future Drilling Prospects...

2026-08-01T13:20:47.768Z

Just wondering what your thoughts/information on the future of Oil/Gas drilling/exploration

might be for the above area(s)?

I read where many parts of Ohio are growing, new permits issued and good outlooks for the future. However

none of them are close to me and further down South.

I have had about five (5) offers to by my land from out of towners in the last 45 days. I am in Ashtabula

County not to far from the PA border. Do they know something I don't about what me coming later on?

I welcome any and all opinions from the Members or anyone with valid input.

Thx

New well plans for Columbiana county , Ohio

2026-07-25T01:43:36.034Z

I know Bright Rock Energy is planning a well on the corner of Hartley Rd and Shelton Rd. that will head towards the southeast. and I was told they are also planning another unit directly to the west of this one. From the size of these units I would say each unit will have two wells.

Eog was planning a well on Tower rd that would head towards the Dollar General in Damascus. Not sure if this well is still going to happen or not but they are still recording leases so I assume its still a go.

Del Rio is recording a lot of leases daily on land east of the Bright rock unit(s). As far as I know Del Rio does not drill wells. Does anyone have any information on who will be drilling all this leased land east of the Bright Rock units over towards Salem .

recent activity in Tioga County

2026-07-24T15:13:58.676Z

Tioga County, PA

Landowners are getting letters asking to re-lease land that had been let lapse.

Any information there? Seneca is the sender. TIA.

Gulfport Energy expands core Utica holding

2026-07-02T19:59:08.598Z

Eye popping amount per acre! Is this area just Gas or is it possible wet gas?

OKLAHOMA CITY--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Gulfport Energy Corporation (NYSE: GPOR) (“Gulfport” or the “Company”) today announced the successful acquisition of approximately 4,700 net undeveloped acres in the core of the Ohio Utica in Belmont County, Ohio, through the Ohio Oil and Gas Land Management Commission State Land Lease Sale for a total purchase price of approximately $83.0 million.

Total purchase price of approximately $83.0 million equates to approximately $17,500 per net acre or $5.1 million per net location (normalized to 15,000’ laterals)

Slightly Off Topic. Rice Drilling a test well in Fairfield County, Ohio

2026-06-27T18:51:46.511Z

gis.ohiodnr.gov/MapViewer/WellSummaryCard.asp?api=34045215150000

Very odd permit (Rice Drilling is the Ohio sub of EQT). Targeting

MT.SIMONSANDSTONE, ROSERUNSANDSTONE, ROMEFORMATION, TREMPEALEAUFORMATION, CONASAUGAFORMATION

proposed well

2026-06-25T22:16:14.849Z

Here is a sneak peak of the new well to be drilled on the corner of Shelton and Hartley Rd. in Columbiana county.

16” poly waste lines

2026-06-19T19:19:47.222Z

Has anyone out there had a 16” waste line across there property? If so what is the approximate going $ rate for one of these be per foot? It seems like it should be more then a flexible fresh water line. We have been approached about one. Thanks

Pang well and limited production

2026-06-13T12:33:05.135Z

Does anyone know what the deal is with the pang well and it’s 110000 or less production every month? Is it low production or is it throttled back for future production?

Trumbull County Production Dipped in Q1 2026

2026-06-09T13:13:29.848Z

Trumbull County peaked at 73.9 million cubic feet in Q2 2025, then Q3 and Q4 2025 figures weren't broken out in public quarterly reports. By Q1 2026 it had slipped to 50.6 million cubic feet — a 27% drop from where it started the year prior. Production comes almost entirely from a small handful of Pin Oak Energy wells. Business Journal DailyBusiness Journal Daily

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Appalachia's Next Act: How the AI Boom Is Turning Marcellus Gas Into Digital Fuel

2026-06-04T14:41:56.379Z

By GoMarcellusShale.com | June 4, 2026

Beneath the farms of Pennsylvania, the hollows of West Virginia, and the river valleys of eastern Ohio sits the most productive natural gas resource in the United States. The Marcellus and Utica shale formations together pump out roughly 35 billion cubic feet of gas per day — more than a third of everything the country produces. For the better part of a decade, that output has barely budged, pinned down not by a shortage of gas in the ground but by a shortage of pipe in the ground to move it.

That constraint is now cracking open, and the force breaking it loose isn't another pipeline alone. It's artificial intelligence.

The Demand Nobody Saw Coming

The hyperscale data center — the kind that powers large language models, cloud computing, and real-time AI inference — consumes electricity on a scale that strains the imagination. A single large campus can draw as much power as a mid-sized city, running continuously, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And with grid interconnection queues in the Mid-Atlantic now stretching beyond five years, tech companies aren't waiting for utilities. They're going directly to gas producers, negotiating long-term behind-the-meter supply agreements that bypass the traditional power grid entirely.

The numbers coming out of Appalachia are staggering. According to the Ohio River Valley Institute, EQT Corporation has already committed to supplying 665 million cubic feet per day to a planned 4.4-gigawatt power station at the Homer City Energy Campus in Pennsylvania, and 800 million cubic feet per day to a 3.6-gigawatt plant at the redeveloped former Bruce Mansfield coal facility in Shippingport — each anchoring a major data center complex. Those two contracts alone represent a volume of gas comparable to what many states consume in total.

And EQT is just getting started. As Yahoo Finance reported, CEO Toby Rice has pointed to NextEra Energy's plans for 10 gigawatts of new natural gas-fired capacity south of Pittsburgh and a 9.2-gigawatt plant being developed by SB Energy in Piketon, Ohio, as evidence that the scale of opportunity being assembled in Appalachia is transformational. In a recent analyst call, Rice described a "robust pipeline" of additional deals under negotiation, representing multiple billion cubic feet per day of potential new supply commitments.

Meanwhile, in West Virginia, earthmoving equipment is already on-site at the Monarch Compute Campus near Point Pleasant in Mason County. The Herald-Dispatch reported that EQT has been selected as gas supplier for an on-site power plant that could generate 3 gigawatts of electricity — exceeding the output of the decommissioned coal plant that previously occupied a nearby site. To connect it all, Hope Gas announced plans in March to construct a 30-mile, $250 million natural gas pipeline into northern Mason County specifically to serve the growing cluster of industrial and data center development in the area.

Why Appalachia Wins This Race

The geography is almost too convenient. As Energy Intelligence noted, the data center build-out in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region — which holds the world's largest concentration of data centers — is attracting tens of billions of dollars in investment, driven in no small part by the proximity of Marcellus and Utica gas reserves. Northern Virginia's "data center alley," which manages more digital traffic than almost anywhere on earth, sits practically on top of the pipeline systems that carry Appalachian gas eastward.

Natural Gas Intelligence has reported that industry analysts note more in-basin demand for natural gas actually reduces the need for new major trunk pipelines to haul gas out of the region — a point that makes data center supply deals uniquely attractive to producers who have spent years watching pipeline projects get canceled or delayed. EQT's Rice has been candid about that frustration, noting the company had "over 5 Bcf/d of pipeline projects canceled or opposed" in recent years.

The Pipeline Picture Is Improving Too

Even as in-basin demand surges, the long-awaited buildout of takeaway infrastructure is finally progressing. As the American Oil & Gas Reporter detailed, Boardwalk Pipelines' proposed Borealis project would carry up to 2 billion cubic feet per day of Marcellus and Utica gas out of western Appalachia all the way to LNG export terminals on the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Boardwalk's chief commercial officer has called it "critical to getting incremental gas supply out of our nation's largest natural gas resource base."

RBN Energy's analysis shows the Mountain Valley Pipeline, which entered service in June 2024, added 2 Bcf/d of southward capacity, and a series of expansion projects along and near the Transco system are enabling more Appalachian gas to reach the fast-growing Southeast. Williams Companies is simultaneously developing three major gas processing plants in Ohio to supply Meta's hyperscale data center complexes in that state, according to the Ohio River Valley Institute.

The EIA currently forecasts Appalachian production growing by 0.4 Bcf/d in 2026 and 0.7 Bcf/d in 2027 — figures that analysts widely regard as conservative given the pace of data center deal announcements that have followed. World Oil's deep dive into the basin concluded that Pennsylvania is emerging as a critical national hub for AI's energy-intensive computing needs, with the broader region having witnessed "a remarkable transformation" over the past 12 months.

What It Means for Landowners and the Region

For royalty owners and mineral rights holders across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio, the convergence of new pipeline capacity and surging data center demand is the most bullish setup the basin has seen in years. Higher in-basin demand tightens Appalachian basis differentials — meaning producers receive prices closer to the national benchmark — which flows through to better royalty checks and renewed incentive to drill undeveloped acreage.

As Natural Gas Intelligence reported, analysts at Siebert Williams Shank noted that EQT's long-term data center offtake agreements "are likely to tighten in-basin differentials" and "support modest volume growth in 2027 and beyond," with more agreements expected across the industry as AI and power generation demand continues to scale.

The Marcellus and Utica have survived price crashes, pipeline cancellations, and regulatory battles that would have broken lesser plays. What's unfolding now is something different — not a recovery from adversity, but a genuine demand-driven expansion that the basin's geology is uniquely equipped to answer. The molecules have always been here. The customers are finally arriving.