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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Oil and natural gas production from horizontal wells across the Utica shale increased through the first quarter of 2019 compared to the same period last year, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources. The agency said Utica wells produced 5.073 million […]

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it plans to loosen federal rules on methane by allowing oil and gas operators to largely police themselves when it comes to preventing the powerful greenhouse gas from leaking out of new wells, pipelines and other infrastructure. It […]

Pittsburgh — Gas producers active in the Utica Shale play, both big participants and producers with smaller operations, have seen sharp spikes in production over the past several years, speakers at the Hart Energy Dug East conference in Pittsburgh said Wednesday. Ascent Resources, one of the […]

The Utica Shale is a black, calcareous, organic-rich shale of Middle Ordovician age that underlies significant portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York, Quebec and other parts of eastern North America. In the subsurface, the Utica Shale is located a few thousand feet below the Marcellus Shale, which has […]

August 2019: drilling data through July projected production through September Monthly additions from one average rig are up 12 barrels/day month over month and up 76 thousand cubic feet/day month over month. READ THE FULL REPORT HERE

U.S. natural gas production continued to increase in August, setting a new daily production record of 92.8 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) on August 19, 2019, according to estimates from IHS Markit. Natural gas production also set a new monthly record in August, averaging […]