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An opinion piece published Jan. 22 in the Enquirer is riddled with misrepresentations about Ohio’s essential oil and natural gas industry, as well as misplaced fear about a newly passed bill ...
The Appalachian Basin – which includes parts of eastern Ohio – is one of the areas where aquifers are most at risk.
Ohio’s oil production has also boomed, with a record-setting 30 million barrels in 2023, a 35-percent increase over the prior year. And the impact on our communities has been huge.
Ohio produced a state record of nearly 30 million barrels of oil in 2023, a 35% increase from the previous year, a new industry report says. The production exceeded the prior high of roughly 27.5 ...
It is a testament to the safety and the rigorous standards of the industry that there have only been three major incidents since 2018, which means that only .004% of Ohio oil and gas operations ...
More than 270,000 oil and natural gas wells dot the landscape of Ohio. They’ve accumulated over centuries and they’ve been a big economic boon for the state since the first one was drilled in ...
Ohio Oil and Gas Industry Accident Data Boost Worries About Drilling Under State Parks Even quickly cleaned-up releases involve chemicals that can be toxic, and hundreds of "minor" incidents belie ...
In collaboration with JobsOhio, Ohio Southeast Economic Development (OhioSE), Ohio Department of Development, and the ...
There’s a lot of history in the Mid-Ohio Valley with Parkersburg on the West Virginia side of the Ohio River being chartered ...
Ohio should continue to build on its long history in the oil and gas sector, just as it did in the drilling of the Thorla-Mckee Well in 1814. Brett Hillyer is an attorney with the law firm of ...
Since 2007, when TXOGA first started compiling this data, the Texas oil and natural gas industry has paid more than $230.3 billion in state and local taxes and state royalties, a figure that does ...
BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WTRF) — While some landowners may see fracking within the gas and oil industry as a financial windfall, others may see it as invasive. In Ohio, these landowners may not ...