There had been an ongoing legal squabble in Trumbull County, OH over a proposed Utica gas-fired electric plant in Lordstown, located next door to another gas-fired plant (see Squabbling Over 2nd Lordstown Utica-Fired Elec Plant Near an End). The squabbling ended Friday when the two sides agreed to settle their differences.
Read More “Legal Dispute Resolved for 2nd Lordstown Utica-Fired Elec Plant”
Last November Encino Acquisition Partners (i.e. Encino Energy) completed its purchase of all of Chesapeake Energy’s Ohio Utica Shale assets for $2 billion (see Stop Press: Chesapeake Sells ALL of its Ohio Utica Assets for $2B). Since that time, we’ve had a number of inquiries from readers asking, will Encino pick up where Chessy left off and maybe expand Ohio drilling?
Read More “Encino Establishes Utica HQ in Stark County – Now Hiring”
Ohio’s current Governor, Mike DeWine, is an establishment-type swamp dwelling Republican. DeWine was Attorney General for Ohio in November 2017 when he was manipulated into suing Energy Transfer claiming the Rover Pipeline project was guilty of “polluting state waters while constructing a natural gas pipeline across Ohio” (see OH EPA Director Manipulates Atty General to Sue Rover Pipeline). The lawsuit has essentially gone nowhere since that time.
Read More “ET Still Fighting Ohio AG re Rover Pipe Enviro Violations”
The Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) is doing a happy dance that they’ve shaken down XTO Energy $425,000 to settle a violation by XTO for drilling a shale well in Belmont County a year ago that exploded and caught fire.
Read More “ODNR Shakes Down XTO Energy $425K for First Responders”
NEXUS Pipeline, a $2.6 billion, 255-mile interstate pipeline that runs from Ohio into Michigan, began a partial startup in October, and was fully online in November. Although there was early opposition to the project, and some complaints from landowners along the route of construction, the project is noteworthy for the just how little complaining there actually was.
Read More “Ohio Schools Rub Hands Together Waiting for NEXUS Tax Revenue”
Landowners in Ohio who didn’t like being force pooled with their neighbors have, since 2015, tried to get the courts to declare that forced pooling is illegal. They’ve struck out in every court where they’ve tried that argument, including (now) the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Read More “6th Circuit Court Upholds Ohio’s Forced Pooling Law”
An Ohio University professor has landed himself (and his research associates) $1 million in grant money to study a better way to turn raw natural gas with lots of ethane in it, directly into ethylene (raw plastics), bypassing the need to separate the raw stream into methane and ethane, and bypassing the need for a huge cracker plant to crack the ethane into ethylene.
Read More “Ohio Univ Gets $1M Grant to Figure out Better Way to Crack Ethane”
MDN recently received a tip from a reader that Highland Field Services (subsidiary of Seneca Resources, which itself is a subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Company) began drilling a new wastewater injection well in Brookfield (Trumbull County), Ohio. This is the third (of five) injection wells Highland has received permits to drill in Highland.
Read More “Highland Begins Drilling New Injection Well in Trumbull Co., OH”
A 30-inch segment of Enbridge’s Texas Eastern Transmission Company (Tetco) interstate natural gas pipeline exploded one week ago today, sending two people to the hospital and destroying two nearby homes when fires from the blast spread (see Texas Eastern Pipeline Explodes in Noble County, OH – Injuries). Enbridge is hoping to restore partial service along the line early this week.
Read More “Enbridge Trying to Restore 1 Bcf/d on Exploded Tetco in Ohio”
Some 2.31 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of Utica Shale natural gas had been flowing through the Berne Compressor Station in Noble County, OH. Some (most?) of that gas goes to the Gulf Coast. That is, did go to the Gulf Coast–until the Texas Eastern Pipeline (Tetco) exploded earlier this week. That 2.31 Bcf/d coming from Berne has dropped to 0 Bcf/d for the indefinite future.
Read More “Texas Eastern Pipe in Ohio Down Indefinitely Following Blast”
The radicals of the Sierra Club along with some lesser-known but equally radical enviro groups are challenging an air quality permit recently granted by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for the PTT Global Chemical ethane cracker project in Belmont County, OH.
Read More “Radical Green Groups Appeal Ohio Cracker Plant Air Permit”
A 30-inch segment of Enbridge’s Texas Eastern interstate natural gas pipeline in Noble County, OH exploded yesterday sending two people to the hospital and destroying two nearby homes. The pipeline was built in the early 1950s and was last inspected in 2012.
NOTE: We’ve added a 1/23/19 update below on how this accident has affected gas flows in Ohio.
Read More “Texas Eastern Pipeline Explodes in Noble County, OH – Injuries”
In September 2016, MDN reported that EmberClear planned to fund and build a new $900 million electric generating plant in Harrison County (see $900M Utica Gas-Fired Electric Plant Coming to Harrison County, OH). The project was supposed to begin construction by the end of last year, but didn’t.
Read More “EmberClear’s Cadiz, OH Gas-Fired Power Plant Slightly Delayed”
Each week the Ohio Dept. of Natural Resources (ODNR) Oil & Gas Resources division publishes the latest list of permits issued to drillers in the Utica (and/or the Marcellus) for the Buckeye State. Each month the same department issues updated maps for both the Utica and the Marcellus to show where drilling is (and by omission, is not) happening. We have the latest maps below.
Read More “Ohio Utica & Marcellus Maps – Where Does Drilling Happen?”
Is anyone surprised that the $6 billion ethane cracker plant complex proposed by PTT Global Chemical for Belmont County, OH did not, as previously promised, announce a final investment decision (FID) in 2018? We sure weren’t.
Read More “Ohio Cracker Now has All Key Regulatory Permits – Still no FID”
Last September the Ohio Supreme Court handed down a decision that requires oil and gas landmen working in Ohio to have a real estate license (see OH Supreme Court Rules Independent Landmen Need Real Estate License). The state legislature just overruled that decision.
Read More “New Law: Ohio Landmen DON’T Need a Real Estate License”