Chesapeake Energy Corp. is still in love with the liquids-rich Utica shale in eastern Ohio. It is eyeing Carroll, Harrison and Columbiana counties as Ohio’s “core of the core” where the Oklahoma energy giant will continue drilling for natural gas, oil and other liquids. Friday marked the
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Drilling companies beginning to explore the Utica shale got a piece of good news last week when the U.S. Geological Survey estimated the rock formation in Ohio, Pennsylvania and other states holds enormous reserves of natural gas and oil. Releasing its first estimate of the Utica, the
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The odds of an extended boom in Ohio’s Utica Shale gas production just got a lot more favorable. Two major pipeline corporations and a large diversified energy company are proposing a major new gas transmission line to run 250 miles across northern Ohio. The large-diameter pipeline
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The energy boom in eastern Ohio could be responsible for producing more than large amounts of natural gas. Area Realtors say the commercial real estate market in Tuscarawas County also is benefiting. The recent sale of the Riverfront Antique Mall is proof that the commercial real
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An Energy Analysts International Inc. associate said Monday that Ohio’s Utica shale could become the third-largest such formation to produce oil and natural gas in the U.S., pumping as many as 500,000 barrels of oil a day from vast underground reserves, the Akron Beacon Journalreports. Senior Associate Steve Fillingham with
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STEUBENVILLE – Having watched the oil and gas industry shape their own communities, business owners and government leaders from Western Pennsylvania were in Steubenville Thursday to share their insights into what lies ahead for Jefferson County. The five-member Boomtown Panel, assembled by the Ohio Valley Oil
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Oil and gas leasing can be an exciting and sometimes confusing proposition. Landowners are now faced with many options when considering different ways to lease their land. Often times landowners are contacted directly by interested brokers or gas companies themselves. While these options can provide quick and
Read more →In growing the Mineral Rights Landowners Group North East the attorneys at Constant Legal Group LLC have been holding informational meetings in Ashtabula, Geauga, Lake, and Portage counties for the past several months. We have been happy to meet many landowners looking for help with their
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Fourteen years after pulling its corporate staff out of Cleveland, BP is reintroducing itself to Northeast Ohio. Not with a skyscraper on Public Square, but with a modest field office in Warren, within striking distance of its stake in Ohio’s Utica shale. BP chief executive Bob
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HOUSTON—America will halve its reliance on Middle East oil by the end of this decade and could end it completely by 2035 due to declining demand and the rapid growth of new petroleum sources in the Western Hemisphere, energy analysts now anticipate. The shift, a result of
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