History of Carroll County, Ohio, Utica Development

As most are aware Carroll County in Ohio has had the most activity of Utica shale wells in Ohio. I would like to understand the background of this development..... Why Carroll County? ......Who started the development? ...when  was it started?.......what came 1st?........How long has it taken?.........I think the understanding of this information may help others understand where their area stands in the process and what to possibly expect................     Many thanks to all who share their knowledge on this site..............

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Permalink Reply by Paul Martinelli on December 11, 2013 at 5:23am

....it started long before that.....with the Big Bang!

 

Gary....good thread....interesting to find out why CHK ( making an assumption there) pinpointed Carroll

county ( eastern)  as ground zero starting point.

Permalink Reply by Harry E. Rose on December 11, 2013 at 6:49am
It started in Gen. 1,1 when God created it.
Permalink Reply by James Vanderink on December 11, 2013 at 5:54am
I would say this well gave Aubrey some info.
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Permalink Reply by CARROLLCOUNTYACE on December 11, 2013 at 7:29am

Here is a well Log from 1917 ...Yes that is the year. So maybe that gave them a idea?

http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/website/Geosurvey/og_pdf/019/34019607800...

Permalink Reply by INVICTUS on January 18, 2014 at 1:25am

Geologists have known for many decades that the "Mother Lode", or the actual source formation (Some call it "the Kitchen") was responsible for supplying the Berea, Clinton, etc formations with their hydrocarbons.

We just didn't have the technology to extract it, until, really the last 25 years or so.

The point is, the basic premise that it was down AND WAS THE SOURCE there has been known for at least a century.

Academic papers way back provide the earliest clues and some include Carroll County and surrounding areas as their source for this basic information.

There was always talk in our family of these sources - with the ever present qualification that "it's not worth getting out, even if we knew how to.

Everything after that is the usual progression of knowledge, technology, market forces that finally are congealing into a new growth industry, reborn from the heady hard-drinking days of the old steam powered cable tool rigs, "when men were men, and women liked it"!

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