Drilling Down
Gulfport Energy Reports New Utica Results
Wednesday, January 23, 2013OKLAHOMA CITY – Gulfport Energy Corp. announced Tuesday the results from two horizontal wells recently drilled in Ohio's Belmont and Harrison counties.
Gulfport's Stutzman 1-14H well in Belmont County tested at a sustained four-hour peak rate of 21 million cubic feet per day of natural gas and 945 barrels a day of natural-gas liquids, or 4,060 barrels of oil equivalent per day, the company said.
The Stutzman well was drilled at a vertical depth of 9,020 feet and an 8,634-foot horizontal lateral, one of the longest drilled to date in the Utica.
Consol Energy Reports Wells Drilled in Utica Shale Play
Saturday, January 19, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Pittsburgh-based Consol Energy and its joint venture partner, Hess Corp., reports its drilled eight wells and completed four of those wells in the Utica shale last year.
Consol says that in Mahoning County, the company has drilled one well in Ellsworth Township and two at the Cadle property in Jackson Township.
The MAH 2A well ion the Hendricks property in Ellsworth was drilled at a lateral length of 2,785 feet and is scheduled for completion in nine stages during the first quarter of 2013, Consol reports.
New Drilling Permits for Columbiana, Mercer Counties
Wednesday, January 16, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Seventeen new horizontal drilling permits were issued last week by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, including one for a new oil and gas well in Columbiana County, records show.
ODNR awarded Houston-based Hilcorp Energy a permit Jan. 8 to drill in Salem Township at the Grubbs property. It is the company's first well permit in Columbiana County and the 62nd permit to be issued in that county.
Hilcorp has permits in Mahoning County, as well as Mercer and Lawrence counties in western Pennsylvania.
Trades Look for Work Building Processing Plants
Tuesday, January 15, 2013NEW MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – Members of the building trades unions think they have a strong shot at landing contracts for the new cryogenic plant slated for Springfield Township, a project that would allow them to get a piece of the $300 million project.
"The pipeline project is looking very good at this point," states Don Crane, president of the Western Reserve Building and Construction Trades Council. "In the negotiations. … [the] building trades contractors are looking at the project and feel very comfortable on where it's headed."