Drilling Down
Dominion Scouting Ohio Sites for Processing Plants
Tuesday, June 05, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Dominion, one of the largest energy suppliers in the country, is scouting sites in Ohio for future plants that would process natural gas drilled from the Utica shale, a company executive said Monday.
"The shale industry is driving our business right now," said David Mordan, director of natural gas operations for Dominion Transmission. "We've looked at other sites in Ohio. We've been here for a long time and we want to continue that."
Chesapeake Puts 337K Utica Acres Up for Sale
Tuesday, June 05, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Cash-strapped Chesapeake Energy Corp is selling the oil and gas drilling rights it controls for 337,481 net acres in the Utica Shale formation in Eastern Ohio – but none of its holdings, at least not now, in Mahoning, Columbiana, Carroll, Harrison and Noble counties.
One Labor Union Wins, Another Loses with Shale
Monday, June 04, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Business agents of the Laborers International Union of North America’s Ohio districts cry foul. They charge that Chesapeake Energy Corp., the major oil and gas leaseholder and driller in the Utica shale in eastern Ohio, is snubbing the local workforce in favor of out-of-state contractors that hire their own.
Not so fast.
BP Looks to Get More Acreage, Start Drilling
Friday, June 01, 2012BROOKFIELD, Ohio – BP Energy is likely to drill its first well in Trumbull County by early 2013, and site preparations for this well should begin toward the end of this year, a company official said Thursday.
"We're anticipating we'll be drilling a well by the beginning of next year," said Bruce Abbuhl, Ohio program manager for BP. "Site preparations should begin later this year."