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New 1-Mile Railroad Siding in Utica Shale will be “Game-Changer”

If you’ve read MDN for any length of time, you know we love a good railroad story. Here’s another one, this one in the Utica Shale…

OH Port Authority Does Deal to Sell 30M Gal of Water for Fracking

Earlier this week, the Columbiana County (OH) Port Authority brokered a deal to sell a minimum 30 million gallons of water from the Buckeye Water District to R.E. Gas Development, a Rex Energy subsidiary, for use in drilling and fracking new shale wells in Carroll County. The three year deal will let R.E. buy the [...]

Now We Know: The Utica Play is More Wet Gas, Less Oil

If you have an interest in the Utica Shale and in the recent production numbers issued by the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR), you need to read an article posted on the RBN Energy blog. RBN Energy is founded and headed by Rusty Braziel, one of the most recognized names (and wizard-of-smart) in the [...]

New Utica Shale Magazine Launches in Harrison County, OH

A brand new full color, glossy magazine aimed at connecting the Utica Shale drilling industry with the local community has just launched in Harrison County, OH. The new Pipeline Connections is published by the owner of the Harrison News-Herald. The magazine is free, but you have to pick up a copy in and around Cadiz…

The Long (Federal) Road to Approve GreenHunter’s Barge Terminals

GreenHuner Water has purchased seven facilities along rivers in PA, WV and OH where it hopes to open operations to barge either fracking wastewater or brine to other locations “down river” for disposal by injection wells. The latest barge facility purchase made by GreenHunter is in Wheeling, WV (see GreenHunter Buys Barge Terminal in Wheeling for [...]

Bluegrass NGL Pipeline Going Through Guernsey County, OH?

In March, Williams and Boardwalk Pipeline Partners announced a joint venture to re-purpose existing pipelines and build new sections of pipeline to carry natural gas liquids from the Marcellus/Utica region to the Gulf Coast for processing (see Williams, Boardwalk Announce Marcellus-to-Gulf Coast NGL Pipeline). The exact route of the new Bluegrass Pipeline, as they call it, has not [...]

OH Watershed District Cuts New Water Deal for Gulfport Fracking

MDN told you a month ago that the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD) had voted to sell water from its plentiful reservoirs and lakes to Antero Resources and Gulfport Energy for use in Utica Shale fracking operations (see Muskingum Watershed Votes to Sell 209M Gals of Water for Fracking). Of the 209 million gallons they [...]

Reuters Says ND Pumps More Oil in 1 Day than OH Did in All 2012

Reuters continues to pile on the bash-Utica bandwagon after the release last week of what MDN termed “disappointing” initial production numbers from the Ohio Utica Shale. MDN tried to keep perspective and provide context to the numbers in our Friday article (see OH 2012 Utica Production: A Slow Start, but Still Hopeful). However, Reuters (not for [...]

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

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 “disappointing.” The total production numbers are quite a bit lower than we had expected–12.8 billion cubic feet of natural gas & NGLs produced for the [...]

OH Utica Production Numbers for 2012 Coming TODAY

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 about the forthcoming numbers:

OH Landowners May be Able to Reclaim Severed Mineral Rights

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 Minerals Act, if the mineral rights owner has not “used” those rights in 20 years, you may be able to reclaim the mineral rights as the surface [...]

ODNR Approves 22 More Utica Permits, Grand Total Now 660

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 rundown of where they were issued:

Cincinnati City Council Wants to Ban OH Wastewater Injection Wells

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 disposing shale wastewater and brine via injection wells. City Council disingenuously says the substances being disposed of (injected in the wells) is hazardous to human health, [...]