"Two Uses Eyed for Kirkwood Heights Well

There is a new standard for the deepest gas well in Ohio's history, as David Hill Inc. is finished drilling its 13,727-foot deep vertical well at the top of Kirkwood Heights near Bridgeport. ...

"We reached the Mount Simon Sandstone," he said, noting the shaft also penetrates both the Marcellus and Utica shales.

Though the completion phase generally involves hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, Hill said this process - which calls for drillers to pump 5 million to 6 million gallons of water, sand and chemicals into each well to help release gas - may not be necessary at the Kirkwood Heights site.

"We will run tubing and punch holes in the pipe," he said. "I am not sure we will have to frack the well."

However, Hill said if the well seems unlikely to produce much gas, he could use it as an injection well to dispose of brine drawn from other drilling sites. ..."

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