Only 3 New Utica Shale Permits Last Week


The latest permitting update from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources reveals that last week was a a slow one for Utica shale permits.

Only 3 new permits were issued, all of them to Chesapeake.  1 was for Carroll County and the other 2 were for Columbiana County.

The week brought the total number of drilling permits to 1033, with 661 wells drilled and 249 producing.  The Utica rig count is 39.

View the report here.

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