Chesapeake Gets Another Permit to Drill at Buehl Site
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources March 15 approved a permit sought by Chesapeake Exploration LLC, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy, to drill an additional well on the Buell property in Archer Township of Harrison County.
The Buell property hosts Chesapeake’s largest producing well in the Utica shale play, the Buell well, which generates 9.5 million cubic feet of dry natural gas and 1,425 barrels of wet natural gas and oil per day.
The Buell permit is one of nine horizontal well permits the ODNR issued that allows Chesapeake to drill across Ohio. The nine comprise one permit in Columbiana County, three in Carroll County, two in Jefferson County, and three in Harrison’s Archer Township.
The Columbiana County permit allows Chesapeake to drill a new well on the Henderson property in West Township for natural gas production.
The permit is Chesapeake’s 22nd horizontal drilling permit in Columbiana and the fourth in West Township.
Chesapeake's latest horizontal drilling permits in Carroll County are for the Tuckosh property in Loudon Township, approved March 15, the Burgett property in Center Township, also approved March 15, and the Fligiel property in Perry Township, approved March 12.
Chesapeake holds 58 horizontal well permits in Carroll County, two on the Tuckosh property in Loudon, five in Center Township – four on the Burgett property – and three in Perry Township.
Another permit for the Slates property in Loudon awaits approval by the ODNR.
There are now 19 well permits in Jefferson and seven in Harrison.
Nine permits have been approved in Mahoning County to drill horizontally. The latest application to drill was submitted Feb. 10 and approved four days later. No further applications have been filed since.
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