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19 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Aug 22-28
September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

Last week the three states with active Marcellus/Utica drilling, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, issued a collective 19 new drilling permits, down from 30 the week before. The top receiver of permits in PA was EQT (i.e. Rice Drilling), with five permits issued for the same well pad in Greene County. Range Resources and Inflection Energy each received two new permits.
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Energy Services | Guernsey County | Industrywide Issues | M&A | Ohio | Select Energy Services

Select Energy Services Buys Out, Merges in Mud Masters Ohio
August 10, 2022August 10, 2022

Select Energy Services (SES) continues to expand with mergers and acquisitions. Earlier this year, SES bought out and merged in Nuverra Environmental Solutions (formerly Heckmann) for $45 million (see Nuverra Environmental Stockholders Agree to Select Energy Deal). According to a letter SES sent to vendors of Mud Masters Ohio (the trade name for Armada EP OH, LLC), SES either already has, or is about to, close on a deal to buy Mud Masters as of August 1st. Details of the deal have not (so far) been disclosed.
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24 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jul 25-31
August 5, 2022August 5, 2022

For the week of July 25-31, the three Marcellus/Utica states issued 24 permits to drill new shale wells, up from 16 the prior week. However, in a major turnaround, Pennsylvania only issued two new permits, one to Chesapeake Energy and the other to Olympus Energy. Ohio had the lion’s share of new permits, issuing 14. Eight of Ohio’s permits went to Encino Energy, and four to Utica Resources Operating. West Virginia issued eight new permits, with seven of them going to Antero Resources.
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Antero Resources | Armstrong County | Ascent Resources | Belmont County | Butler County | Carroll County | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Doddridge County | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Greene County (PA) | Guernsey County | Harrison County | Indiana County | INR/Infinity Natural Resources | Jefferson County (OH) | Laurel Mountain Energy | LOLA Energy | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Snyder Brothers | Susquehanna County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia

34 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jun 13-19
June 24, 2022June 24, 2022

We finally started to see more permits issued again last week. After the Marcellus/Utica was in the permit doldrum for nearly a month, bumping around at 20 permits or below, last week the number increased to a total of 34 permits issued to drill new shale wells. Pennsylvania issued 13 new permits, with seven of them going to Coterra Energy in Susquehanna County on the same pad. Ohio issued 14 new permits, with 12 of them going to Ascent Resources distributed across four different counties. And West Virginia issued seven new permits, all of them to Antero Resources, all in Doddridge County.
Read More “34 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Jun 13-19”
Antero Resources | Ascent Resources | Belmont County | Blackhill Energy | Bradford County | Carroll County | Chesapeake Energy | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Fayette County | Guernsey County | Harrison County | Ohio | Olympus/Huntley & Huntley | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania General Energy | Range Resources Corp | Ritchie County | Tioga County (PA) | Utica Resource Operating | Washington County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Westmoreland County

20 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV May 30-Jun 5
June 10, 2022June 10, 2022

Two weeks ago a pathetically low six new permits were issued to drill shale wells across Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia (see 6 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV May 23-29). Last week the number improved–with 20 new permits issued. PA had 13 permits with Range Resources, Olympus Energy, and Pennsylvania General Energy all scoring three permits each. OH issued six new permits with the state’s two most active drillers, Ascent Resources and Encino Energy, collectively grabbing five of the six. WV issued just one new permit–to Antero Resources.
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Apex Energy | Arsenal Resources | Ascent Resources | Belmont County | Bradford County | CNX Resources | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Energy Companies | Guernsey County | Gulfport Energy | Indiana County | INR/Infinity Natural Resources | Lycoming County | Marshall County | McKean County | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Repsol | Seneca Resources | Susquehanna County | Taylor County | Tug Hill Operating | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Westmoreland County

24 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV May 16-22
May 26, 2022May 26, 2022

Just last week MDN told you we will, from now on, bring you new permit data for the previous week on Fridays. Yet here it is Thursday and we’re sharing the permit data for last week. What gives? MDN and its author, Jim Willis, are taking a break Friday (tomorrow) and next Monday for the Memorial Day holiday. Well, we’re taking Monday off for the holiday. We’re taking Friday off because there’s a wedding in Jim’s family this weekend. There are preparations to make, and celebrations to partake in. So we’re bringing you the permit data today, on Thursday. Speaking of which, there were 24 new permits issued last week, with 14 of them going to Pennsylvania, seven to Ohio, and three to West Virginia. We break it down below.
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Apex Energy | Arsenal Resources | Ascent Resources | Belmont County | Bradford County | CNX Resources | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Energy Companies | Guernsey County | Gulfport Energy | Indiana County | INR/Infinity Natural Resources | Lycoming County | Marshall County | McKean County | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Repsol | Seneca Resources | Susquehanna County | Taylor County | Tug Hill Operating | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Westmoreland County

35 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV May 9-15
May 20, 2022May 27, 2022

We’re giving Fridays a shot as the day we will release weekly updates for permits issued for the prior one-week period. Today’s report is for the period of May 9-15 (last week, not this week). It seems as if the various state agencies have the data updated by the end of the week following, so that’s how we’ll release it (for now). Last week, Pennsylvania issued 22 new permits with Seneca Resources taking the lion’s share of 12 permits on two different pads (eight in Lycoming County and four in McKean County). Repsol scored four permits in Bradford County.
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Antero Resources | Ascent Resources | Columbiana County | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Greene County (PA) | Guernsey County | Harrison County | Lycoming County | Ohio | Olympus/Huntley & Huntley | Pennsylvania | Seneca Resources | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Washington County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Westmoreland County | Wetzel County

Corrected: 25 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV May 2-8
May 16, 2022May 27, 2022

We always wait a few days into a new week before grabbing new shale well permits data to give the folks at the various state agencies time to update their systems for the previous week. Last Wednesday we told you that Pennsylvania had issued 11 new permits, Ohio issued none, and West Virginia issued just one (see 12 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV May 2-8). In rechecking today, we discovered PA actually issued 13 new permits and OH issued 11 permits during that period (both states updated their data since last Wednesday). WV remained at one new permit. We include the revised and corrected reports below.
Read More “Corrected: 25 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV May 2-8”
Allegheny County | Antero Resources | Ascent Resources | Belmont County | Bradford County | Carroll County | Chesapeake Energy | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Greene County (PA) | Guernsey County | Indiana County | INR/Infinity Natural Resources | Marshall County | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Range Resources Corp | Southwestern Energy | Tyler County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Wetzel County

35 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Apr 25-May 1
May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

Last week Pennsylvania issued 16 new shale well permits. EQT led the way with ten permits, all of them for wells in Greene County. You just HAVE to read the names of the wells (below). After getting skunked for two weeks in a row, Ohio finally issued permits once again last week–ten of them. Ascent Resources scored six permits, mostly in Belmont County. Encino Energy had four permits, all in Carroll County. Finally, West Virginia had nine permits. Antero Resources scored seven of the nine (six in Wetzel County), and Southwestern took the remaining two permits (both in Marshall County).
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Ascent Resources | Beech Resources | Bradford County | Carroll County | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Fayette County | Guernsey County | Harrison County | INR/Infinity Natural Resources | Jefferson County (OH) | Lycoming County | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Seneca Resources | Southwestern Energy | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Utica Resource Operating | Washington County | Weekly Permits

24 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Mar 28-Apr 3
April 6, 2022April 6, 2022

Last week Pennsylvania issued 14 new shale well permits, with EQT Corp. grabbing eight (seven of them on a single pad in Fayette County), and Coterra Energy (formerly Cabot Oil & Gas) receiving three (all on the same pad in Susquehanna County). Ohio issued ten new permits last week, with three going to a relative newcomer, Utica Resource Operating (same pad in Guernsey Count) and three for Encino Energy (same pad in Harrison County). West Virginia got skunked and shows no new shale permits issued last week. Pity.
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Allegheny County | Apex Energy | Armstrong County | Ascent Resources | Belmont County | Bradford County | Brooke County | Carroll County | CNX Resources | Columbiana County | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | EOG Resources | Guernsey County | Harrison County | Hilcorp Energy | Lycoming County | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Range Resources Corp | Repsol | Seneca Resources | Snyder Brothers | Southwestern Energy | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Tug Hill Operating | Washington County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Westmoreland County | Wetzel County

44 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Feb 7-13
February 16, 2022February 16, 2022

Last week the number of new shale permits issued for the three M-U states more than doubled from the previous week. Four weeks ago there were 61 new shale drilling permits issued in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Three weeks ago that number fell to 33. Two weeks ago the permit number fell again, to just 20. Last week? The number bounced back up to 44 new permits. PA issued 24 new permits, OH issued 18 permits, and WV issued 2 new permits.
Read More “44 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Feb 7-13”
Ascent Resources | Belmont County | Butler County | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | EXCO Resources | Greene County (PA) | Guernsey County | Harrison County | Lycoming County | Marshall County | Ohio | PennEnergy Resources | Pennsylvania | Repsol | Tioga County (PA) | Tug Hill Operating | Utica Resources | Weekly Permits | West Virginia

28 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Oct 18-24
October 27, 2021October 27, 2021

Last week Pennsylvania issued 21 permits to drill new shale wells. Most of the permits went to two well pads, one in Butler County drilled by PennEnergy Resources and the other in Tioga County drilled by Repsol. Ohio issued six new permits, three to Encino Energy, two to Utica Resource Operating, and one to Ascent Resources. West Virginia, for the second week in a row, issued just one new permit. Last week’s WV permit went to Tug Hill Operating in Marshall County.
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Guernsey County | Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Wastewater

Minor Pipeline Leak at Ohio Injection Well Now Fixed
July 22, 2021July 22, 2021

On June 24, the operator of the SOS D-2 injection well in Cambridge, Ohio (Guernsey County) reported a small release from a pipeline that transfers fluid from a storage tank to the injection well. The well’s owner/operator, Silcor Oilfield Services Inc., immediately contained the leak (see Minor Pipeline Leak at Cambridge, OH Injection Well). The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR), which is overseeing remediation of the affected area and repair of the line, says the line is now fully repaired, tested, and (as of July 7) back online and in service.
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Ascent Resources | Chesapeake Energy | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Energy Companies | Energy Services | EQT Corp | Greene County (PA) | Guernsey County | Marshall County | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Seneca Resources | Southwestern Energy | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Tyler County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Wetzel County | Wyoming County (PA) | XcL Midstream

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Jul 12-18
July 22, 2021July 22, 2021

New permit activity once again picked up last week after the previous week showed a paltry number of permits. In Pennsylvania 10 new permits were issued, all but one of them in the northeastern dry gas area of the state. In Ohio 4 new permits were issued, all of them for the same driller on the same well pad. And in West Virginia, 7 new permits were issued. One of the permits appears to be issued to a private landowner drilling his own shale well! And in another oddity, four WV permits were issued to a midstream company.
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Accidents | Guernsey County | Industrywide Issues | Ohio | Wastewater

Minor Pipeline Leak at Cambridge, OH Injection Well
July 6, 2021July 6, 2021

On June 24, the operator of the SOS D-2 injection well in Cambridge, Ohio (Guernsey County) reported a small release from a pipeline that transfers fluid from a storage tank to the injection well. The well’s owner/operator, Silcor Oilfield Services Inc., contained the leak. The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) was alerted and is overseeing remediation of the affected area and repair of the line. End of story. Except…
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Electrical Generation | Guernsey County | Industrywide Issues | Ohio

Country’s Biggest NatGas Power Plant (in OH) Delayed by 2 Months
May 17, 2021May 17, 2021

Artist rendering of completed Guernsey Power Plant (click for larger version)

The massive 1,875-megawatt Marcellus/Utica gas-fired electric generating station being built in southern Guernsey County in Ohio–the Guernsey Power Station–is now about 50% complete. The original plan called for the plant to be done and online in October 2022. Instead, it won’t come online until December 2022 according to project owner Caithness Energy. A two-month delay is pretty darned good according to Caithness, given the challenges of the past year and a global pandemic.
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