The Associated Press fact-checks a claim by Ohio Governor John Kasich, and concludes the Republican’s prospects for oil and gas profits are a bit overoptimistic: COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s claim that a single energy company could recover $1 trillion worth of oil and gas from the state’s shale is an exorbitant overestimate, [...]
Last week we told you that despite Governor Corbett’s warnings, West Virginia says it is not trying to re-enter the Shell ethane cracker bidding war. A spokesman for Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s office told the Charleston Daily Mail that they had “not had any further discussions with Shell about their cracker location since the announcement [...]
In Pennsylvania, hydraulic fracturing critics call it the doctor “gag rule.” But three other states have passed nearly identical provisions in recent months. And in two of them, the language passed without a blip of controversy. Pennsylvania’s new state law, Act 13, requires drilling companies to tell any doctor who asks what chemicals they are [...]
Two months ago, Chesapeake Energy was boasting about its Ohio land holdings. One of its natural gas wells was producing 300 times the average Ohio well’s output. This week, the company is selling a quarter of its Utica Shale leases. The Post-Gazette reports that “through a listing on the website of Meagher Energy Advisors, Chesapeake [...]
Remember forced pooling? Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission wanted to allow natural gas drillers to, under certain circumstances, extract Marcellus Shale gas from under unwilling landowners’ property. The panel’s justification: That scenario is legal – with full compensation for the landowner – in nearly every other geological formation. But Governor Corbett said he was [...]
Where does Pennsylvania’s used fracking fluid go? More and more of it is being shipped to Ohio, where it’s deposited in deep injection wells. View them here.
Everybody wants to ring in New Year’s Eve with a bang. Most people just want a heads-up the bang is coming. Diane Slender was at home, drying her hair, on the afternoon of December 31st. “I was in the bedroom and this big – baboom! My husband thought I fell,” she said. “And he’s like, [...]
Production numbers are showing a lot of natural gas in Ohio’s Utica Shale, as the AP reports: Figures reported Monday by Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp. show five wells in eastern Ohio producing 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2011. The other four wells produced hundreds of barrels of oil but are not [...]
The latest sign energy companies are more interested in Ohio’s Utica Shale than Pennsylvania’s Marcellus play: an 84,000-acre leasing purchase by British Petroleum. More from the Post-Gazette:
Going through severance tax and impact fee withdrawal? Never fear – two neighboring states are in the midst of debates over whether or not to raise the levies they assess to natural gas drillers. In Maryland, the House of Delegates has approved a tax on gas extraction: The House of Delegates has passed a 7.5 [...]
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