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27 New Shale Well Permits Reported for PA-OH-WV Aug 10 – 16
The Marcellus/Utica region received 27 new drilling permits last week, August 10 – 16, up significantly from the 8 permits issued two weeks ago. In something of a reversal, Pennsylvania turned in the fewest new permits, just 4. Ohio issued the most permits, with 16, and West Virginia issued 7 permits. The drillers who received new permits were: Antero Resources (6), Ascent Resources (5), EOG Resources (8), Expand Energy (4), Jay-Bee Oil & Gas (1), LOLA Energy (1), Range Resources (1), and Seneca Resources (1). Read More “27 New Shale Well Permits Reported for PA-OH-WV Aug 10 – 16”
Houston-based EOG Resources posted record second-quarter 2026 results on August 4th, and buried inside the good news for shareholders is an even better story for Ohio landowners and the Utica supply chain: the former Encino Energy assets EOG bought a year ago are now outperforming the company’s own pre-acquisition playbook. EOG’s CEO called the deal a “home run” on the August 5th earnings call, and the numbers back him up — well costs down 20% from where Encino left them, drilling and completion speeds up double digits, and activity levels more than tripled versus pre-acquisition rates. Company-wide, EOG posted $2.7 billion in adjusted net income ($5.07/share), $2.8 billion of free cash flow, and record oil volumes of 548.8 MBod. Full detail below, with the Utica numbers front and center. 
EOG Resources has settled — and apparently bought out — the Noble County, Ohio landowner who beat it at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last year in a fight over whether a driller can use one owner’s surface to drill horizontally into the neighbors’ minerals. The case, EOG Resources, Inc. v. Lucky Land Management, LLC, produced a published appellate ruling that’s now a go-to precedent on surface rights for horizontal (lateral) drilling anywhere severed mineral estates exist — which describes most of the Marcellus/Utica. MDN first flagged this case a year ago when we caught the 6th Circuit’s reversal (see below) but couldn’t pin down the county or the full backstory (see 
A Harrison County landowner and longtime pro-drilling voice is now accusing EOG Resources of “theft” — and while the word grabs headlines, the underlying dispute is a lot more nuanced than one company stealing one man’s mineral rights. A recent report from Your Ohio News lays out landowner Ron Ott’s grievances against EOG, but bundles together at least four separate issues into one story. We think MDN readers deserve the untangled version. 
The highly functional and responsible Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC), unlike its dysfunctional and irresponsible counterpart, the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), continues to support the shale energy industry by approving water withdrawals and consumptive use requests for responsible, safe shale drilling. The SRBC published a notice in the May 23rd Pennsylvania Bulletin that the SRBC approved and/or renewed 33 general water use permits in April for individual shale gas well drilling pads in Bradford, Cameron, Lycoming, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Tioga, and Wyoming counties. 
EOG Resources is one of the largest crude oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the U.S., with proved reserves in the U.S. and Trinidad. The company bought and merged with Encino Energy’s extensive Ohio Utica operation last August, making EOG one of the largest drillers in the Buckeye State (see