Ashland County

Devon is drilling a Utica well in Ashland as we speak yet I've seen no discussion of the county here. I know there are a few buggy-loads of Amish out there but surely there are SOME Ashland landowners who visit this site?

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Permalink Reply by hunter4440 on March 17, 2012 at 5:26pm

Finnbear...thanks for the info and the picture. Very glad to see Devon is already drilling. 

Permalink Reply by Finnbear on March 17, 2012 at 5:43pm

I should be in that neighborhood early next week. I'll see if I can get some better pics.

Permalink Reply by Marcus Grayson on March 22, 2012 at 10:58am
Devon is finishing the frack of Eichelberger today. If anyone is in the neighborhood see if there are tanker trucks lined up to take the oil out.
Permalink Reply by Phil T on March 22, 2012 at 11:35am

Devon got a lot accomplished in the last week.  Are they using water from the  pipeline that was discussed?

Permalink Reply by NE Richland County landowner on March 22, 2012 at 3:56pm

If my info from a friend who just drove by is correct, the Eichelberger site is a ghost town today.  Not one person on the site. 

Permalink Reply by dan gladyszewski on March 22, 2012 at 5:38pm

Just got back from the well site, just a pad and wellhead. No guard, no nothing. Doesn't appear to have been any activity at all lately.

Permalink Reply by Finnbear on May 3, 2012 at 10:10am

Update 5-1-12

The Richman Rd. (Medina county) well is being prepared for fracking. This is the well head.

Water lines are being laid this week and 8 new tanks showed up.This picture shows 3 lines coming to/from a pond on the farm. One line comes from the creek on the west side of Richman Rd. and goes to a pond on the east side of the road. There are 2 pumps at the pond to the east of the well pad and those two lines go to the well pad from the pond. Looks like they will be pumping water from the creek to the pond and using it as a reservoir for fresh water for the frack job. Sorry the pic is so bad, it was taken from the road with a cell phone and where the water lines end at the pumps beside the pond to the right of the house is near 1/2 mile off the road.

Permalink Reply by Depolarized Farmer on March 27, 2012 at 3:09pm

Is Devon planning to conduct "steam assisted gravity drainage" (SAGD) operations in Ashland / Richland counties?  This would make sense if all of the ODNR maps are correct which label those areas as "immature", meaning the oil isn't even in liquid form, but rather it exists as bitumen.  With SAGD, lower rock pressures in shallow formations like this shouldn't be an issue...  they don't depend on natural rock pressure to drive the oil out of the rock, but rather inject steam to "melt" the bitumen and then let gravity eventually pull it down into the producing wellbore.

This video explains the process better than I can.

 

 http://www.capp.ca/energySupply/innovationStories/Water/Pages/using...

 

Can anyone verify that this what Devon is up to?  This might also explain why operators like CHK shied away.

Permalink Reply by Finnbear on March 27, 2012 at 4:33pm
The tar sands oil that would come from Canada via the Keystone XL pipeline uses a similar process to "melt" the hydrocarbons out of the mined sands.
Permalink Reply by Phil T on March 27, 2012 at 7:07pm

Ashland and Richland County are in the mature oil window according to the published ODNR maps.  The oil window as measured by vitrinite reflectance (Ro) begins at about 0.6.  The 0.6 cutoff has been approximated by ODNR from historical well data and is further west in NW Crawford County.  I believe Devon is chasing oil from the shale using basically the same techniques utilized by operators in the current heart of the play in the east.

Here is the most recent PowerPoint from ODNR.  As is the norm for Larry Wickstrom and his team, the material is excellent and instructive:

http://ohiodnr.com/portals/10/energy/Utica/Utica-PointPleasantPlay.pdf

Has anyone seen or heard about any activity on the water pipeline?

Permalink Reply by NE Richland County landowner on April 2, 2012 at 6:13pm

As of a few days ago, no activity at well or at water source.  I did hear they planned to frack by April 10 but that was just heresay.  Does anyone know if they just use a fire hose type material to pipe the water?  Noticed some ditches enroute that are freshly scooped and would be a nice place to lay a water line. 

Any new news on the Lodi site???  Marcus ? Finnbear ??

Permalink Reply by dan gladyszewski on April 2, 2012 at 8:12pm

I was informed by a friend of mine, that his father in law was approached by Devon for right of way of a 10 inch line to be buried on his property. This sounds kind of large for a waterline. Could it be for production? I was informed that his property lies in the direction of route 250. He couldn't reach a deal with them. Devon mentioned they would go around his property. I will try to confirm this info. From this same person, I was also told that he had a friend that worked for a company in Ashland that deals in hydraulics and has dealings with Devon, he heard that Devon was planning more wells at the site. All hearsay, but, hoping someone out there heard something. As I said, I will attempt to confirm this.

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