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New Drilling Permit Issued for Columbiana County
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has issued a new permit for a horizontal well in Columbiana County.
A permit was awarded Feb. 6 to Chesapeake Exploration LLC to drill a well in Center Township on the Dye property, ODNR records show.
ODNR also issued four other permits to Chesapeake for wells in Carroll County, the most active county for oil and gas exploration in eastern Ohio's Utica shale.
Three of these permits are for new wells on the Anderson farm in Loudon Township and another is slated for the Mills property in East Township.
Also last week, Gulfport Energy Corp. secured two permits for new wells in Belmont County, according to ODNR records.
Gulfport, which has drilled the most productive wells to date in the Utica, secured permits to drill in Somerset and Union townships.
No new permits were issued for wells in Mahoning or Trumbull counties during the week of Feb. 3 through Feb. 9.
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection did not issue new horizontal permits last week for drilling sites in Lawrence or Mercer counties in western Pennsylvania.
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