Rebecca Bench, a landowner in Belmont County, Ohio is representing herself in a lawsuit she has brought against Hess. The lawsuit alleges that Mason Dixon Energy, whom she signed a lease with (that lease was eventually purchased by Hess) had no legal standing to conduct business in Ohio at the time they convinced Rebecca and [...]
Steubenville, Ohio is about to close a lease deal on a former city landfill. Hess has agreed to pay $5,400 per acre for a signing bonus on the 110 acre site, and 19 percent royalties.
A second joint venture that CONSOL has announced in recent months has just been completed. Yesterday, CONSOL received an initial $60 million of a total $594 million from Hess to develop 200,000 Utica Shale acres in Ohio. Previously, CONSOL entered another joint venture with Noble Energy for $3.4 billion to develop 663,350 acres in western [...]
Recently released data on drilling violations from the PA Department of Environmental Protection show that problems continue with the cemented steel casings that are designed to protect groundwater from methane and the fluids used to frack wells. The violations do not mean methane or fluids escaped into local groundwater aquifers—but the potential exists when a [...]
Consol Energy Inc. has sold exploration and development rights for natural gas in the Ohio Utica Shale to Hess Corp. The $593 million deal was announced yesterday. The agreement gives Hess 50 percent of Consol’s mineral rights to some 200,000 acres. Hess will pay Consol $59 million when the deal closes in October and invest [...]