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Permalink Reply by James Foster on May 20, 2014 at 6:31am

Go to http://oilandgas.ohiodnr.gov/

Go to shale activity.  These are updated weekly.  One is new permits.  One is all permits to date.  Left side is Marcellus .. not much activity in Ohio.  Right side is Utica.  You can see permits by county, township.  You can see if well is drilled, producing.

http://oilandgas.ohiodnr.gov/portals/oilgas/shale-activity/comprehe...

copy and paste to browser to view this pdf

This is this weeks copy of permits to date in Ohio Utica.

This will show you actually permitting and drilling activity in Ohio.

It is quiet in Western Mahoning County at this time.  A couple of wells drilled in Western Mahoning and NW Columbiana did not produce the same results as other wells further south and east.  There is oil but it is thick and has been difficult to remove.  There are tons of companies working on this issue so I think we will just have to wait and see if they can figure out to capture the oil and gas from this area.  IMHO

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Permalink Reply by John W Haney on June 10, 2014 at 2:55pm

It's interesting that a gas well is producing not more than half a mile from our property that has been there since I was a kid at least 40 or more years. So I wonder why they would not drill more in the area, specially since it is on a pipeline too.  Any thoughts

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Permalink Reply by Pro Geo on May 20, 2014 at 3:45pm

I am assisting a client in that area with a lease.  Hilcorp and Chesapeake showed no interest.  I will keep you posted how this turns out after we get a deal signed.

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Permalink Reply by John W Haney on June 10, 2014 at 2:57pm

not sure of the name of company but think it's CNX or something like that, that has an old well running and hooked up to a pipeline already

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Permalink Reply by pg guy on June 11, 2014 at 1:30am

Most all existing wells in that area are conventional, vertical Clinton sandstone wells, which is probably +/- 5,500 ft deep in that area.  Just to the north and west of that area are some Rose Run wells which made prolific oil and gas in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

State regulations require 40 acre drilling units per well for the depth of the Clinton in that area.  Because Clinton wells in that area generally had good economics, it is likely that almost every possible 40 acre tract (or parcels aggregated and unitized into 40 acre tracts) has been drilled.

Until (and if) someone comes up with technology to economically extract more oil and gas from the Clinton, or "cracks the code" for oil from the Utica, that area will be considered drilled-up, and pretty much depleted. 

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