Weekly Permits

Allegheny County | Butler County | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Greene County (PA) | Olympus/Huntley & Huntley | PennEnergy Resources | Pennsylvania | Repsol | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Washington County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Westmoreland County | Wetzel County

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Aug 9-15
August 18, 2021August 18, 2021

Last week both Pennsylvania and West Virginia issued permits to drill new shale wells. Ohio remained skunked for a fourth week in a row. PA issued 30 new shale permits–one of the highest weekly tallies we’ve seen. PA’s permits were issued for wells on 11 pads, meaning there were a number of multi-well permits issued. WV issued 7 new shale permits, all of them for the same pad being drilled by EQT in Wetzel County.
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Allegheny County | Elk County | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Greene County (PA) | Pennsylvania | Seneca Resources | Washington County | Weekly Permits

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Aug 2-8
August 10, 2021August 10, 2021

Last week only Pennsylvania issued permits to drill new shale wells. Both Ohio and West Virginia issued no new drilling permits. Summer doldrums? Some 8 of the 11 permits issued in PA were to Seneca Resources, all of them in Elk County, and 7 of the 8 were for the same well pad. The other 3 permits were issued to EQT in three different counties.
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Antero Resources | Armstrong County | Bradford County | Chesapeake Energy | Chief Oil & Gas | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Energy Companies | Jay-Bee Oil & Gas | Lycoming County | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania General Energy | Range Resources Corp | Seneca Resources | Snyder Brothers | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Tyler County | Washington County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Jul 26-Aug 1
August 3, 2021August 3, 2021

Last week both Pennsylvania and West Virginia received permits to drill new shale wells. Ohio was left out of the permit game for a second week in a row. PA received 19 new permits, with 9 going to Range Resources, 4 going to Seneca Resources, and a smattering of others. WV received 9 new permits, all of them in Tyler County and all but 2 given to Antero Resources.
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Bradford County | Clarion County | CNX Resources | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Laurel Mountain Energy | Pennsylvania | Southwestern Energy | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Washington County | Weekly Permits | Westmoreland County

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Jul 19-25
July 28, 2021July 28, 2021

Only Pennsylvania issued new permits over the past week to drill shale wells. Both Ohio and West Virginia issued no new permits. New permits for PA were issued for Southwestern Energy (4 new permits), Laurel Mountain Production (3 new permits), and 1 new permit each for Cabot Oil & Gas, CNX Resources, and EQT (aka Rice Drilling).
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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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Antero Resources | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Greene County (PA) | Marshall County | Pennsylvania | Ritchie County | Tug Hill Operating | Weekly Permits | West Virginia

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Jul 5-11
July 14, 2021July 14, 2021

Last week not a whole lot of permit action was goin’ on. Pennsylvania scored only a single (1) new permit. We can’t remember the last time that happened! The PA permit was for a well that will be drilled by EQT in Greene County. Ohio’s Utica got skunked with no new permits. West Virginia rode in to save the day, posting 5 new permits–4 of them for Tug Hill and 1 for Antero Resources.
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Antero Resources | Bradford County | Carroll County | Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Greene County (PA) | Harrison County | HG Energy | INR/Infinity Natural Resources | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Range Resources Corp | Ritchie County | Susquehanna County | Tyler County | Washington County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Jun 28-Jul 4
July 7, 2021July 7, 2021

All three Marcellus/Utica states received permits to drill new shale wells last week. Pennsylvania issued 12 new permits, 7 of them in the northeast PA dry gas region and 5 in the southwest wet gas region. Ohio issued 3 new permits, all of them for the same driller in Carroll County. (The Ohio driller is brand new!) And West Virginia issued 6 new permits with 5 of the 6 going to Antero Resources.
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Alliance Petroleum | CNX Resources | Columbiana County | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Energy Companies | Greene County (PA) | Hilcorp Energy | Monongalia County | Monroe County | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Phoenix Energy Resources | Susquehanna County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Jun 21-27
June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

All three Marcellus/Utica states received permits to drill new shale wells last week. Pennsylvania issued 9 new permits, all but one of them for the same well pad in Greene County. Ohio issued 3 new permits, two on a single pad in Monroe County. And West Virginia issued just 1 new permit last week–to a company we had not previously heard of.
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Antero Resources | Armstrong County | Chesapeake Energy | Chief Oil & Gas | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Greene County (PA) | Greylock Energy | Inflection Energy | Lycoming County | Olympus/Huntley & Huntley | Pennsylvania | Range Resources Corp | Snyder Brothers | Sullivan County | Susquehanna County | Washington County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Westmoreland County | Wetzel County

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Jun 14-20
June 23, 2021June 23, 2021

Two of three Marcellus/Utica states received permits to drill new shale wells last week, and boy did they open the floodgates! Pennsylvania issued 30 new permits, the majority of which are located on three well pads operated by EQT, Chesapeake Energy, and Range Resources. Ohio issued no new permits. After getting skunked for two weeks in a row, West Virginia issued 16 new permits–to just two drillers: Antero Resources and EQT. All of the WV permits were issued in the same county.
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Armstrong County | Beaver County | Columbiana County | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | Inflection Energy | Lycoming County | Monroe County | Ohio | PennEnergy Resources | Pennsylvania | Snyder Brothers | Southwestern Energy | Susquehanna County | Weekly Permits

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Jun 7-13
June 16, 2021June 23, 2021

Two of three Marcellus/Utica states received permits to drill new shale wells last week. Pennsylvania issued just 4 new permits, spread all around the state, all in different counties. Ohio issued 8 new permits, split equally between Encino Energy (EAP) and Southwestern Energy (Eclipse). West Virginia’s shale industry got skunked last week with no new permits for a second week in a row! We can’t remember that ever happening.
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Ascent Resources | Bradford County | Cameron County | Carroll County | Chesapeake Energy | Chief Oil & Gas | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | Jefferson County (OH) | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Repsol | Seneca Resources | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Weekly Permits

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: May 31-Jun 6
June 9, 2021June 9, 2021

Two of three Marcellus/Utica states received permits to drill new shale wells last week. Pennsylvania issued 13 new permits, almost all of them in the dry gas northeastern part of the state. Ohio issued 11 new permits, in the center of the Utica play. West Virginia’s shale industry got skunked last week–no new permits. It’s been quite a while since that’s happened in WV.
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Antero Resources | Armstrong County | Bradford County | Cameron County | Chesapeake Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | Jay-Bee Oil & Gas | Monroe County | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Pleasants County | Seneca Resources | Weekly Permits | West Virginia

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: May 24-30
June 2, 2021June 2, 2021

All three M-U states received permits to drill new shale wells last week, but not a lot. In fact, it was one of the lowest overall number of permits issued in recent memory. Pennsylvania received just five new permits, and some of those were reissued permits. Ohio received four permits. And West Virginia just a single new permit.
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Alta Resources | Beaver County | Carroll County | Chesapeake Energy | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | Harrison County | HG Energy | Lycoming County | Ohio | PennEnergy Resources | Pennsylvania | Susquehanna County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: May 17-23
May 26, 2021June 2, 2021

All three M-U states received permits to drill new shale wells last week, but the numbers were all down. Pennsylvania issued just 8 permits with 6 in the northeastern part of the state and 2 in the southwestern region. Ohio issued four permits, all for the same driller on the same well pad in the same county. And West Virginia issued just one new permit for last week.
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Antero Resources | Armstrong County | Chesapeake Energy | Chief Oil & Gas | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Eclipse Resources | Energy Companies | EXCO Resources | Lycoming County | Marshall County | Monongalia County | Monroe County | Northeast Natural Energy | Ohio | Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania General Energy | Southwestern Energy | Sullivan County | Susquehanna County | Tioga County (PA) | Tug Hill Operating | Tyler County | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Wetzel County

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: May 10-16
May 19, 2021May 26, 2021

All three M-U states received permits to drill new shale wells last week. Pennsylvania received a sizable 14 new permits (after receiving 18 permits the previous week). The majority of those permits were for wells on three pads in northeastern PA. Ohio received 3 new permits last week all in one county (Greene) for one driller (Eclipse, now owned by Southwestern Energy) on one well pad. And West Virginia received a sizable 13 new permits with 9 of them split between two well pads for different drillers (Northeast Natural Energy and Tug Hill).
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Allegheny County | Armstrong County | Arsenal Resources | Ascent Resources | Beech Resources | Chesapeake Energy | Chief Oil & Gas | Coterra Energy (Cabot O&G) | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | EQT Corp | EXCO Resources | HG Energy | Jefferson County (OH) | Lewis County | Lycoming County | Marshall County | Ohio | Olympus/Huntley & Huntley | Pennsylvania | Snyder Brothers | Southwestern Energy | Sullivan County | Susquehanna County | Taylor County | Tioga County (PA) | Tug Hill Operating | Weekly Permits | West Virginia | Westmoreland County

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: May 3-9
May 12, 2021May 12, 2021

All three M-U states received permits to drill new shale wells last week. Pennsylvania received a big 18 new permits (after receiving no new permits the previous week). More than half of those 18 permits were for wells on two pads in southwestern PA. Ohio received 7 new permits last week all in one county (Jefferson), split between Encino Energy and Ascent Resources. And West Virginia received 10 new permits with 7 of them for a single pad in Lewis County.
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Ascent Resources | Carroll County | Encino Energy | Energy Companies | Jefferson County (OH) | Ohio | Weekly Permits

Weekly Shale Drilling Permits for PA, OH, WV: Apr 26-May 2
May 5, 2021May 5, 2021

An interesting turn of events for our weekly permit report. In querying the Pennsylvania database, it reports no new permits issued for the past week. We can’t recall that ever happening. Pennsylvania almost always has the most permits issued of the three M-U states. West Virginia, which typically has the second-highest number of permits issued each week, also issued no new shale drilling permits last week. Only Ohio, which lately has issued very few permits for Utica drilling, had a bumper week, issuing 8 new permits!
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