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Permits Issued for Trumbull, Columbiana Counties
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has issued a new horizontal drilling permit to Halcon Resources Inc. for a well in Lordstown Township in Trumbull County, according to records.
The permit was issued on Feb. 2 and well would be located on the Kibler property, ODNR reported.
The Kibler well is the second horizontal well under development by Halcon. The company is drilling a new well in Hartford Township along Hayes-Orangeville Road.
ODNR issued a total of 14 permits last week, eight of them to Chesapeake Exploration LLC, a division of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp.
Chesapeake was awarded a permit to begin drilling on the Tritten property in Center Township, Columbiana County. Work crews are in the process of constructing the well pad (The Tritten well is the focus of “Field of View, a twice-monthly column in The Business Journal by Gloria Tritten and a Daily BUZZ video segment as well).
Chesapeake also secured a new permit to drill on the Briceland Trust property in Franklin Township in Columbiana County.
Six other permits were issued to Chesapeake last week. Five of those were for new wells in Carroll County and one for new horizontal well in Harrison County.
Gulfport Energy secured three new permits for wells in Nottingham Township in Harrison County, ODNR reports. The company has drilled the most productive wells in the Utica to date. A recent report estimated that Gulfport's Stutzman well in southwestern Belmont County could yield as much a $100,000 worth of oil and gas revenue per day.
ODNR also issued a new drill permit to PDC Energy Inc. for a well in Guernsey County, and another permit to CNX Gas Co. LLC, a division of Consol Energy, for a new well in Noble County.
There were no new well permits issued for Mahoning County, ODNR's website shows.
Since 2011, 512 horizontal well permits have been issued and 223 wells drilled in eastern Ohio's Utica shale. Fifty of those wells are now in production, ODNR reports.
A search of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's database shows that there were no permits issued for horizontal wells in either Mercer or Lawrence counties in western Pennsylvania last week.
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