ODNR Utica Shale Maps

It has been a year since ODNR updated their maps for the Utica shale including maps showing S1, S2, TOC and %Ro.  

Anyone have any idea if new maps might be forthcoming?  Any thoughts on a year's worth of new information in which to formulate some new estimations?

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Permalink Reply by bo boboski on March 5, 2014 at 11:03am

I think they take as many days off as the schools do.  Keeping us folks informed doesn't seem to be a high priority to them.

Permalink Reply by INVICTUS on March 6, 2014 at 2:07am

They are short-staffed for the amount of work they have to do.

The grinders (ones that do the day-to-day heavy lifting) are ok to deal with.

Once you rise above a certain level of management, the political element gets in the way.

Do not deal with this level.

Permalink Reply by INVICTUS on March 6, 2014 at 2:04am

The data within my area of interest is proprietary for one year following completion.

I want those numbers as well.

However, the ODNR has the numbers.

Permalink Reply by Bill Barnaby on March 6, 2014 at 2:38am
Does anyone have the link for the old maps?
Permalink Reply by Markus on March 6, 2014 at 5:04am

Bill:

See below link and then go to the tab called Utica Shale Files for Download...last published March 5, 2013.

http://geosurvey.ohiodnr.gov/energy-resources/marcellus-utica-shales

Permalink Reply by Bill Barnaby on March 6, 2014 at 6:31am

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Booger on March 6, 2014 at 3:28am

personally, i'd like to see the Q4 production numbers ............they have had the info now for nearly a month.......it's not really that much data to complile.......i could create the spreadsheet in one day.

"Companies must submit the data to ODNR 45 days after the end of the quarter. The increased reporting provides ODNR, the industry and the public with more accurate and timely information regarding Ohio’s oil and gas industry. Moving forward, ODNR will release quarterly data online after it is compiled."

WTF DNR?

i really shouldn't complain........the quartly reporting is a GIANT leap ahead of the annual.........just anxious.

Permalink Reply by INVICTUS on March 6, 2014 at 3:41am

Here's a suggestion. Shoot some arrows at me if you like.

County auditor's have a weights & measures division to verify the accuracy of things like gas pumps, weigh scales.

At the risk of involving "more regulation", how about a similar division within ODNR to do periodic, unannounced audits at well pads, thus verifying what are now self-reporting requirements under the law?

Didn't someone once suggest "Trust, but verify"?

Permalink Reply by Kathi Albertson on March 6, 2014 at 4:07am
It is the opinion of many that some sort of auditing has to take place. As Farm Bureau public policy action team leaders in eastern Ohio, many of us will be working to lobby for it. It would be good to be joined by other groups as well. It has become clear that we can't rely on the integrity of the G & O companies to make accurate reports.
Permalink Reply by INVICTUS on March 6, 2014 at 4:50am

It would be helpful to let these views be know to the various County Commissioners, Township Trustees, as well as other elected official within the play.

Their constituents, as well as, in some cases, themselves (As gov't entities) have a common interest in the integrity of these royalty figures.

There is a storm potentially brewing on the horizon as 2014-2015 plans to kick O/G production into high gear brings a LOT of Leaseholders into a royalty receiving situation fairly soon.

And with steep decline curves a fact of life: The money may well come and go quickly.

None of us has much time to get it together. Once that decline curve bottoms out, the opportunity MAY be gone to retrieve this money.

50 year well pads or not.

Our friends at CHK are in the news too much for my tastes regarding royalty issues.

Now they are under formal criminal  investigation for a variety of related issues with regards to their way of doing business.

Permalink Reply by Kathi Albertson on March 6, 2014 at 5:17am

I know from my county auditor that the issue is important to the Ohio Auditors Association.  I am disappointed that they have not gotten further with it as it involves taxes to the county as well as the state. I am not clear as to whether the issue is that there is not regulatory authority allowing auditors access to meters or if it is the lack of training for potential auditor workers to read the meters.  In the past, my auditor has said that he would have no one that could read the circular paper charts that we have on old wells.

Permalink Reply by mbc on March 6, 2014 at 4:25am

Yes, someone did state "Trust, but verify."  And, if that someone, or someone like him, were at the helm our ship would be sailing under much more competent hands!

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