Drilling Down
Halcon Receives Third Well Permit in Mahoning County
Friday, November 01, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Halcon Operating Co. Inc. intends to drill a third well in Jackson Township in Mahoning County, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
ODNR issued Halcon on Oct. 24 a permit to drill a second horizontal well on the Grenamyer property that is intended for oil and gas exploration in the Utica shale, records show.
Earlier this year, Halcon drilled its first well in Mahoning County on the Davidson property, also in Jackson Township.
Fourth Plant Eyed for Kensington Gas Complex
Tuesday, October 29, 2013SCIO, Ohio -- Just three months into production, a potential expansion of Utica East Ohio Buckeye's Kensington cryogenic plant in Columbiana County is already in the works, says a top oil and gas executive.
"We have a fourth plant that is planned to sit on that site," said Frank Tsuru, president of M3 Midstream, which along with Access Midstream and EV Energy Partners operate the UEO Buckeye system.
Hickory Bend Plant Dedicated, Execs Talk Expansion
Tuesday, October 29, 2013NEW MIDDLETOWN, Ohio – The land Springfield Township Trustee Robert Orr stood on midday Monday was, not long ago, “kind of a swampy farmland property, a mixture of woods and farming,” he recalled. Some farmers commented that the land “wasn’t very good farmland anyway” so it might as well be put to industrial use.
Chorus of ‘Thank Yous’ for Pennant Midstream Plant
Monday, October 28, 2013NEW MIDDLETOWN, Ohio -- It was indeed a “chorus of thank yous” this morning, just as the CEO of NiSource Midstream Services, Robert C. Skaggs Jr., predicted as he opened the dedication ceremonies for the Pennant Midstream Hickory Bend gas processing plant here.
From NiSource’s partner in Pennant Midstream LLC – Hilcorp Energy affiliate Harvest Pipeline – to the pipeline companies and building trades unions who built the gathering lines and processing plant, and the public officials who helped cut the bureaucratic red tape, Skaggs was effusive in his praise.