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ODNR Issues More Well Permits for Southern Utica
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Oil and gas companies are keeping their focus and concentration on the central and southern tier of Ohio's Utica shale, as all 13 new horizontal well permits issued last week were for projects in this region of the shale play.
For the week ended Jan. 25, Chesapeake Exploration LLC, a division of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp., was awarded six new permits to drill in Carroll and Harrison counties, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The company secured three permits for wells in Lee Township in Carroll County, and for three additional wells in North Township in Harrison County.
Gulfport Energy Corp., also based in Oklahoma City, was awarded five permits to drill wells in the Utica, three in Somerset Township in Belmont County and two in Moorefield Township in Harrison County, ODNR reported.
Also, Denver-based Antero Resources Corp. secured two well permits in Noble County, Seneca Township, records show.
Gulfport and Antero have reported some of the strongest wells drilled so far in the Utica, mainly in Belmont and Monroe counties in the southern point of the Utica, where companies are finding the best production.
No new permits were issued for the more northern Utica counties of Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull.
To date, 1,061 permits for new horizontal wells have been issued in the Utica shale since. Of those, 697 wells are drilled and 292 wells are in production, records show.
No new horizontal well permits were issued in Lawrence or Mercer counties, which encompass the Utica play in western Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
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