Drilling Down
Study Shows Trucking Industry Benefits from Shale
Saturday, February 02, 2013CLEVELAND -- The shale industry’s increasing use of horizontal drilling to retrieve oil and natural gas once beyond reach has greatly benefited the domestic trucking industry, a study by Benesch reports.
The benefits go well beyond eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania, extending to North Dakota, Texas and Louisiana, reports Benesch, a business law firm with offices in Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and elsewhere. Overseeing its gas practice are Orla E. “Chip” Collier III in Columbus and Kevin D. Margolis in Cleveland.
More Well Permits for Carroll, Harrison Counties
Friday, February 01, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Just four permits for horizontal drilling operations in Ohio's Utica shale were issued last week, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
Two permits were issued on Jan. 26 to Chesapeake Exploration LLC for wells in Carroll County, ODNR records show. Both wells are slated for the Walker property in Loudon Township.
Corbett Says He's Confident Shell Will Build Cracker
Thursday, January 31, 2013PITTSBURGH – Pa. Gov. Tom Corbett says that he hopes by next year, Royal Dutch Shell will put "a shovel in the ground" and start construction of a multi-billion dollar "cracker" plant near Monaca, Pa., at a site just 40 miles from Mahoning County.
Landfill Has No Plans to Accept Solidified Brine
Wednesday, January 30, 2013YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A three-page advisory issued in September by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency that raises the possibility of landfills in the state accepting solidified brine is a nonstarter for at least one such operation in the Mahoning Valley, its division manager said Tuesday.
“The rules are very specific,” said Mike Heher, division manager at Republic Services' Carbon Limestone Landfill in Poland Township. “Landfills cannot take brine, and we don’t.”