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Permalink Reply by David Mohn on May 13, 2014 at 8:19am

I have always had this gut feeling about Stark County.  I have no facts to back up my gut feeling but it just has been so quite.  I sometimes think it might be that sleeping giant when the oil and gas companies start here.  I have read several times that on new shale plays they drill and experiment all around the "core" areas before drilling there.  Also CHK started leasing in Stark County even before people heard of the Utica.  There is so much of Stark County that is HBP that drilling companies have no real time line to drill.  Stark County may sit idle for a few more years but I still feel that good things are going to come to the landowners here. 

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Permalink Reply by James Foster on May 13, 2014 at 8:33am

You have 13 wells there permitted between 11/25/2011 and 7/23/2012 so no recent activity. 

There are 2 wells  that are producing in Marlboro (Enervest) and Osnaburg (Chesapeake) Twp. I do not have production data for these wells but it should be readily available on ODNR.

You have 5 drilled wells in Washington (CH), Bethlehem (CH) (2), Paris (CH) (2) same pad only duplicate pad.

You have 6 permitted wells in Sandy 5/17/14 (CH), Osnaburg 2/14/14 (CH), Lexington 2/27/14 (CH), Paris 3/19/14 (CH), Marlboro 5/22/14 (CH), Pike 7/23/14 (En), which have or will be expiring as of the dates listed.

For those of you unfamiliar with Stark County you can see on this map where they are in the County.  Columbiana and Mahoning lie east and Carroll south.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Stark_County_Ohio_Wit...

OK so in the interest of not being negative about the prospects in Stark County I will let this factual information taken from ODNR Shale Activity Spreadsheet and allow you to formulate your own opinion.

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Permalink Reply by David Mohn on May 14, 2014 at 12:59am

Well Stark County might be left out you just never know.  Allot of land is HBP and I know CHK tried selling their deep rights last year but I don't know if they are still trying to sell or not.  In 10 years we will know for sure but for right now, this whole area is still new and drilling companies are inventing new methods to drill and new procedures to frack.  Only the oil companies have an idea what is down there and they are not telling.  I used the word idea because no one knows for certain what is there till they drill and produce.  Yes, they have drilled some wells in eastern Stark County but you don't hear allot about them.  Maybe the wells are duds?  Maybe they have them choked off until sometime in the future?  Like I said, Stark County is mostly HBP and they have all the time in the world to drill it.  They might be going after the areas that aren't HBP because they do have a time line for drilling there.  Stark County could be like that retirement account for them.  It is there, it is in the bank and it is not going anywhere.  Make your money back on the southern counties and retire on northern stuff.  Just an opinion and maybe wishful thinking. 

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