Drilling Down
Consol Tries to Answer Landowners’ Questions
Friday, May 11, 2012BOARDMAN, Ohio – People brought questions and their concerns about drilling for natural gas in eastern Ohio to the Holiday Inn Thursday. Some 25 employees of Pittsburgh-based Consol Energy Inc. answered them candidly and at length during the three-hour open house.
Geologists, engineers, land men, site planners, road supervisors and staff, and a company spokeswoman met with all who walked into their hall in the hotel where they welcomed their questions and comments, including from landowners who had leased their mineral rights to other energy companies.
New Drilling Permit for Columbiana County
Thursday, May 10, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Four new drilling permits were issued by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources last week, three of which were awarded to Chesapeake Exploration LLC, a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp.
Chesapeake was issued a horizontal drilling permit on May 2 at the Altenhof farm, located in Hanover Township in Columbiana County, ODNR reported.
To date, 32 horizontal drilling permits to explore the Utica shale play have been issued in Columbiana County, all of them to Chesapeake.
Former NRM Complex in Line for Shale Industry Makeover
Wednesday, May 09, 2012EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio – When Jerry Stoneburner purchased the former National Refractories complex just outside Columbiana nine years ago, he had no idea how he was going to fill the 300,000-square-feet of space and the nearly 100 acres it sits on.
The purchase, Stoneburner now says, was a simple case of buying the right place at the right time.
Natural Gas Plentiful; Fueling Stations Are Not
Wednesday, May 09, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- By the end of 2013, the Stark Area Regional Transit Authority in Canton will have 50 vehicles in its fleet that operate on compressed natural gas, said its executive director, Kirt Conrad.
The fleet of 85 buses, which includes nine CNG vehicles, will have 23 more CNG buses by the end of summer, Conrad says. To fuel them, the transit authority invested in a $1.5 million to build CNG stations.
“We have built and opened northern Ohio’s first public-private compressed natural gas fueling facility,” Conrad said. “It just opened -- literally -- this month.”