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OHIO WELL ACTIVITYby the numbersMARCELLUS SHALE UTICA SHALE15 Wells Permitted

5 Wells Drilled 223 Wells Drilled

0 Inactive

0 Not Drilled

0 Plugged

100 Wells Producing

351 Wells Permitted

0 Not Drilled

0 Wells Drilling

0 Inactive6 Wells Producing

686 Total Horizontal Permits

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Shale Numbers

STRONGCOLUMBUS – The Ohio Department of Natural Re-

sources (ODNR) said Utica shale oil and gas produc-tion has increased 93 percent for oil and 80 percent for

gas since 2011. Additionally, producing wells have gone from two to 87. At this rate of growth, ODNR expects Utica shale well production to exceed the yearly output of all of Ohio’s nearly 51,000 existing conventional wells by as early as 2015. Utica wells represent less than one percent of all producing oil and gas wells in Ohio.

“The production from these initial Utica wells make a com-pelling statement about the staggering amount of oil and gas resources Ohio’s shale appears to contain,” said ODNR Director James Zehringer. “As more data is collected and analyzed, ODNR will continue to report it and continue its careful regulation of this rapidly growing and economically vital industry.”

When comparing horizontal wells to conventional wells, the 2012 Utica shale production averages indicate:

A single Utica well produced as much oil as 312 conven-tional wells

A single Utica well produced as much natural gas as 448 conventional wells.

Additionally, during 2012, these 87 Utica wells produced:• 12 percent of Ohio’s total oil production• 16 percent of Ohio’s total gas production for 2012. One of ODNR’s primary focuses is to protect Ohio’s citi-

zens and natural resources through responsible regulation of the oil and gas industry while still encouraging industry growth. The Ohio General Assembly is considering legislation that would require well owners to report production quarterly as opposed to annually. Ohio law currently requires well own-ers to submit yearly production results by March 31. More frequent reporting will allow ODNR to better understand Ohio’s shale play, and therefore, provide even more effective and comprehensive regulation of this growing industry.

Production results for all Utica wells are available in spread-sheet form at: http://oilandgas.ohiodnr.gov/production/.

The goal of the ODNR is to ensure a balance between wise use and protection of natural resources for the benefit of all. Visit the ODNR website at ohiodnr.gov.

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PORTAGE CO. — Injection wells that take the waste products of oil and gas drilling and pump it into the earth at depths of several thousand are a safe, effec-

tive and well-regulated means of disposing of such mate-rial, according to an Ohio oil and gas trade association and well owners.

To give the media a better handle on the matter of injec-tion wells, members of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association recently gave a guided tour of a well in Windham Township, Portage County.

Penny Seipel, vice president of public affairs for OOGA, said the group want to take the “confusion and mysticism” out of injection wells, which she said are stringently regulated by state officials.

Well owner/operator David Ballentine owns six operation-al injection wells and has a permit for a seventh through his company, B&B Oilfield Service, Inc. He also transports drill-ing waste under the name Northeast Ohio Oilfield Service Inc.

In business for the past 25 years, he said he employs up to 22 people at any one time — including his wife, one of his two daughters and his son — at his shop on S.R. 88 in Portage County’s Freedom Township.

Ballentine’s well, located on privately-owned property on S.R. 303, is a former oil and gas well that descends to a depth of 3,900 feet. It ceased production in 1985 and was plugged in 1986, he said. Earthen dams prevent spillage from large brown holding tanks hooked to pumps that inject the wastewater deep into the earth. Automatic “murphy” switches measure fluid levels and pressure and can shut down the injection pro-cess if a problem arises, Ballentine said.

Leased from the landowners on a yearly basis, the well is monitored electronically for changes in pressure that could signal a problem. Technology contained in an app on Ballen-tine’s smartphone and a website allows him to check on all his wells anytime he wants, he said.

His trucks are limited to 10 trips per day to the well, only between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., and on average deposit 250 barrels of waste per day into the well. No waste produced outside of Ohio is injected into the well, Ballentine said, and the only waste injected is brine from the drilling process — basically, salt water.

David Hill, OOGA vice president and the owner of several injection wells in Guernsey County, said pressure monitoring allows well owners and Ohio Department of Natural Resourc-es officials to monitor for signs of danger in Ohio’s 179 injec-tion wells. A geologist and member of OOGA’s Underground Injection Control work group, Hill said it is nearly impossible for such waste water to rise close enough to the surface to mix with the water table or surface soil.

ODNR regulators utilize a hydrostatic pressure formula to

determine if a well is near capacity, Hill said. If a well does ex-ceed the pre-determined pressure, low or high, it is automati-cally shut down, he said. While regulators are required to visit every well at least once every eight or nine weeks, “in practice they are there every week,” Hill said.

State regulators can revoke a permit anytime for cause, he said, and also won’t let drillers drill in areas prone to seismic activity. He called a series of earthquakes in the Youngstown area in 2011 that were linked by the state to a series of injec-tion wells in the area “an unfortunate incident.”

“As a geologist, I don’t think I could replicate those condi-tions,” Hill said, adding that “there is not enough hydraulic horsepower on the face of the Earth to create a crack” that could force wastewater thousands of feet up the well and

David Hill, vice president of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, stands in front of holding tanks serving a Class II oil and gas wastewater injection well on S.R. 303 in Windham Township on May 8.

Well owner/operator David Ballentine describes the process by which his fleet of wastewater trucks delivers brine and unloads it into the holding tanks in the background during a tour of his well site on S.R. 303 in Windham Township, Portage County, on May 8.

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The head of a Class II injection well on private property off S.R. 303 in Windham Township, Portage County. For safety purposes, the well has wireless connectivity that allows the owner/operator to monitor it, and pressure sensors to detect subtle shifts in pressure that could signal problems. It accepts an average of 250 barrels of waste brine per day, according to owner/operator David Ballentine.

through six layers of steel tubing and concrete surrounding the well head at the surface. Pressure sensors would also give well operators notice before that happened, he said.

More than 11 million barrels of waste were injected into the ground in Ohio in 2011, according to Hill. That’s less than one-half of one percent of all the water injected into the ground in the United States, he said.

“There is not one instance where a Class II injection well has contaminated groundwater,” Hill said.

Hill said Ohio laws on Class II injection wells like the Wind-ham Township well are “at least as stringent” as federal en-vironmental protection laws. The 144,000 Class II injection wells in the United States are safe enough to be located close to agricultural and residential property, and may only accept waste from oil and gas production. That means high volumes of water, with low toxicity, he said.

Hill said he believes some of the fear and unease about in-jection wells among the public comes from a lack of informa-tion. He said a reading of Ohio Senate Bill 315, passed in 2012, “would demystify a lot of the process” for the public.

“Often times, it’s easy to fear the unknown,” he said.

“There is not one instance where a Class II injection well has contaminated groundwater,”

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With this development, opportu-nities are available for businesses to start, grow and thrive by serv-ing the oil and gas industry.

Accountants often look historic data to work on many compliance items like tax returns and financial statements. However, entrepreneurs focused on growth cannot rely solely on documents that look at the past. It’s imperative to look forward.

One of the more important items for an entrepreneur to focus on is the business’s cash flow. The ability of a busi-ness to provide ample cash flow allows the business to plan for growth and expansion. This is especially important as bank lending is trending to focus on a business’s ability to repay the loan and not necessarily on the net income of the business. Net income is not the same as cash flow. Net in-come includes items that may not represent cash availability like accounts receivable. Eventually accounts receivable be-come cash to the business, but receivables are not generally immediately available to pay for things like new equipment or inventory. It often takes a number of days or months to convert receivables into cash that can be used to expand a business.

It is only with a true understanding of cash flows that a business can plan for growth. By understanding the busi-ness’s cash flows, an entrepreneur begins to understand the business’s cycle time. Cycle time is the amount of time it takes a business to convert cash to inventory, complete sales and then collect on receivables. This cycle time varies from business to business. Until an entrepreneur can understand the business’s cycle time, there is little that can be done to change it. Not understanding cycle time can cause dire ef-fects to a business. It can lead to inventory levels that are unsustainable or obsolete, bloated lines of credit and poor decision making.

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As the Utica Play continues to develop, it will bring many opportunities for entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks and work hard. Those who will experience success are those who look and plan for the future – and who have enough cash in the bank to take advantage of opportunities as they arise.

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Utica Boom Still in InfancyWOOSTER — It almost

goes without saying that Ohio is in the midst of

an oil and gas boom, the likes of which it may never experience again. There have been many prior cycles of boom and bust in Ohio, in-cluding the Morrow County boom in the 1960s and the development of the Rose Run and Trempealeau formations in the 1980s and ‘90s. All

of these pale in comparison to the current Utica Shale boom. Indeed, analysts report that the U.S. Shale

boom could impact the global economy and geo-political cli-mate, in terms of gas exports, lower energy prices, re-location and re-vitalization of U.S. business sectors and the weakening of OPEC, to name a few.

To fully understand the scope and breadth of the Utica Shale play, it is helpful to review the United States Geological Survey (“USGS”) report published in September 2012, which assessed recoverable oil and gas reserves in the Utica Shale formation using current technology. A copy of this report is available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2012/3116/FS12-3116.pdf.

In its report the USGS explained that the Utica Shale con-tains oil and gas in significant quantities that has absorbed into the Shale and which have become recoverable using current horizontal drilling and hydro fracking technology. The USGS defined “sweet spots” for oil and gas bearing areas within the Utica Shale area that cover most of eastern and into central Ohio. In fact, the USGS assessment areas for the Utica Shale estimated about 31,000,000 acres for gas and 15,000,000 acres for oil, truly a vast area in Ohio.

The USGS report goes on to provide estimates of recover-able resources using current technology. There is a high likeli-hood that the Utica Shale holds roughly 940 million barrels of oil, 38.2 trillion cubic feet of gas and 208 million barrels of natural gas liquids. The estimated oil and gas reserves in the Utica Shale sweet spots would require 48,000 gas wells and another 7,000 oil wells to be drilled within the areas defined by the USGS as sweet spots.

To put this into perspective, there were less than 10 horizon-tal wells drilled in 2011 and about 150 wells drilled in 2012. It is estimated that this year approximately 500 horizontal wells will be drilled to the Utica Shale formation in eastern Ohio. As pipeline and processing facilities are completed in 2014 and 2015, thus reducing the infrastructure bottleneck, an even greater rate of Utica development should be expected in years to come.

Indeed, this Shale play could continue for at least 20 years. Other current unknowns that could extend this play are 1)

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developments in technology that could open up even more recoverable reserves and 2) the duration of production of each Utica Shale well and how much production will decline as each well is produced.

Given the known quantities of estimated returns using cur-rent technology, we are at the very early stages of the Utica Shale boom.

Using a baseball analogy, if this were a nine inning game, we are still listening to the Star Spangled Banner and the umpire has not even yelled “play ball.”

This Utica boom will likely be an interesting, prosperous and exciting game that should play out for decades to come.

David J. Wigham is a second generation oil and gas attor-ney at the law firm of Critchfield, Critchfield & Johnston, in Wooster, Ohio, with more than 20 years of experience in the industry.

“Using a baseball analogy, if this were a nine inning game, we are still listening to the Star Spangled Banner and the umpire has not even yelled “play ball.”

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State Setting Drilling StandardsWOOSTER — Although

not fully in place, the rules and regulations

governing shale development in Ohio are taking shape.

James Zehringer, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Re-sources, spoke at the annual meet-ing of the Eastern Ohio Develop-ment Alliance about how the state is working to set standards for drilling.

“Oil and gas can be prosperous, and not at the expense of the en-vironment,” he said. “The focus of

the ODNR is to create regulations based on science, not emo-tion or politics.”

By watching what other states have done, both right and wrong, he said they’ve learned how to best approach the issue. Among the key lessons was the need to have regulations and inspectors and taxes in place early.

Pennsylvania was not ready, he said. “They did not have the inspectors with the right training in place.” Ohio now has more than 50 staff people employed within the oil and gas

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division of ODNR.Currently more than 605 permits have been granted for hor-

izontal drilling, and nearly 300 wells have been drilled.It is anticipated a total of 750 will be drilled by year’s end,

said Zehringer, who said another 1,500 are expected in 2014 and 2,000-2,050 more in 2015.

“This industry can be dangerous when it’s not properly reg-ulated. That’s why it’s important to have the right people on ground with the right regulations in place,” he said.

Already inspectors the department has been called to in-vestigate some complaints of non-compliance and was quick to permanently revoke the permit of a company found to be dumping oil contaminated waste in a public waterway.

“We’re not going to have bad players take down the indus-try. While we can’t stop all illegal activity, we can respond to it and do it quickly, taking swift and strong action when viola-tions occur,” he said.

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tionator of natural gas in the Appalachian Basin, is building two new cryogenic processing facilities in Cadiz in Harrison County. Both are scheduled to be-gin operations in during 2013. A smaller, temporary facility has been in operation since the fall of 2012. The Cadiz complex will also include a de-ethaniza-tion facility where ethane will be removed from the gas stream and delivered into the new ATEX Express ethane pipeline that will run 1,230 miles from Penn-sylvania to the Gulf Coast. The propane and heavier natural gas liquids will then flow via pipeline to a new Harrison County fractionation plant for further separation. Below, Marc Grantonic, operator at the new MarkWest cryogenic gas processing facility in Cadiz, works inside the control center for the plant. The plant, which purifies the gas of any acid gases, is expected to begin operations next week. It employs only Ohio workers.

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“Because LEPC is a government agency, we are not biased at all on the topic of horizontal drilling. It is simply a fact. There are nine wells in Stark County in some part of the process of development. So, it’s here. And, because of that, certain train-ing is needed to reduce the vulnerability of the firefighters, EMT’s, law enforcement agencies, and all the public safety workers that are involved. We’ve programmed this training so it can be adapted to any of those venues.”

“The Utica used to be a big pain to drill through,” Kirk Miller said. Because of science and technology, producers have found an efficient way to drill into the Utica, which has resulted in new equipment and rigs. So, where a string of pipe used to be around 3,000 feet, it is now 18,000 feet, he added. Companies like Miller Supply now face greater liability and greater risk.

“There’s a fear factor,” Kirk Miller said. “A 13-inch pipe weighs about 2,000 pounds. The stuff weighs twice as; the equipment was designed for smaller pipe. It changed the dy-namic.”

Science and technology could possibly change the dynamic again in this area.

Right now, producers are focused on drilling in Eastern Ohio because that is where the “low-hanging fruit is,” Jack Miller said. “Drilling could come west when science and tech-nology learns how to extract oil from our shale. We need to find ways to get it out of the shale.”

The family’s heritage is showcased at the Ken Miller Sup-ply Museum, a private oil, gas, car and truck museum in near Shreve. For more information, call (330) 496-4024 or (330) 378-2121.“You will see a 90-foot gas well derrick swallowed in flames during a blowout,” McDonald explained.

“Massillon Fire Department Chief Tom Burgasser and I have been developing this program for over a year,” said McDonald, who is also a retired Jackson Township firefighter.

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He said the state is also trying to look out for the land owner. “We’re asking that (ownership of mineral rights) be recorded at the (county) recorder’s office. And, if there’s a well on that property, ODNR wants to know where the well is.”

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CAMBRIDGE -- Holding court under the auspices of the Ohio Judicial Con-

ference and hosted by the Guern-sey County Common Pleas Court, Judge David A. Ellwood wel-comed 10 Common Pleas Court judges to the recent Shale Oil and Gas Roundtable meeting at the Guernsey County Courthouse in Cambridge.

Ellwood initiated the roundtable meeting after contacting judges

who preside over a county engaged in oil and gas activity, ask-ing for input about the development of any new court prac-tices initiated because of the expanding presence of the gas and oil industry in their communities.

Ellwood contacted Retired Judge Mark Schweikert, execu-tive director of the Ohio Judicial Conference, suggesting a roundtable meeting with the judges. Schweikert agreed and said, “It is sensible to begin a conversation and network to stay ahead of the issue.”

The roundtable meeting was May 10.“Judges are required to perform 24 hours of continuous

legal education (over a specified period of time) relating to what judges do — either by the law or court cases — to share information about how we are dealing with the demand of cases coming before the court,” said Ellwood. “We [Guernsey County] created a gas and oil case docket last year (July of 2012) because of the number of cases coming before the court. We currently have 37 cases relating to the oil and gas industry at some stage in the process.”

Because Ellwood instituted an ambitious Case Manage-ment Plan to expedite cases in a timely manner, the judges have referred to his court docket as the “Rocket Docket.”

This is not to say the procedure is cutting corners, it is just a more manageable approach to resolving issues, where every-one is on the same page and everyone is expected to follow the rules.

“The one issue that particularly stands out in oil and gas cases coming before the court would be the complexity and variety of the number of issues raised by these cases,” said Ell-wood.

“Initially, the cases were landowner cases often attempting to recover severed mineral rights or to void older oil and gas leases. The cases now pending before the court have become more complicated and are involving the oil and gas producing companies with issues such as unitization/pooling agreements. There is not one case or issue that is emblematic of the legal process today. The overriding issue with the oil and gas cases coming before the Court is to have a case management plan or

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procedure in place so the case can be ‘timely’ processed, heard and decided by the court.”

Ellwood said the consensus of the roundtable meeting with the judges was that they are all facing similar issues with the oil and gas boom in eastern Ohio.

“We are planning another roundtable at a later date. We like to place the judges together as it is a situation where we often learn as much by talking to a peer — a similar judge — as we do from reading the cases,” he said.

Garrett Knott/The Daily Jeffersonian/www.buyjeffphotos.comThe Guernsey County Common Pleas Court and Judge David Ellwood (kneeling) held host to 10 visiting judges, part of the Ohio Judicial Conference, for the Shale Oil and Gas Roundtable Friday afternoon in Cambridge. Other judges were, second row, l to r, Judges Robert Reinbold (retired), John Solovan II (Belmont County), John Nau (Noble County), Edward Lane Jr. (Washington County), Edward O’Farrell (Tuscarawas County). Third row, l to r, Judges Dominick Olivito, Jr. (Carroll County), Scott Washam (Columbiana County), Linton Lewis, Jr. (retired), Milt Nuzum (Ohio Judicial College) and Mark Schweikert (Ohio Judicial Conference). Each judge discussed what cases they have had relating to shale oil and gas issues and talked about any new court practices or procedures developed for such cases.

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safety is at a premium during the drilling and hydraulic fracturing process, there are new dangers on the scene with which first respond-ers in this part of the country are not familiar.

For that reason, the Stark County Local Emergency Planning Com-mittee has put a training program together for firefighters that can also be adapted to serve law en-

forcement, EMTs and public officials. The program, called “Response to Oil and Gas Well Incidents Including Horizon-tal Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing,” was recently developed and has already been used to train more than 100 firefighters in the area, including those in Canton, Jackson Township, Mas-sillon, Osnaburg Township, and Hartville. Efforts are being made now to bring the training to Alliance and Washington, Lexington and Marlboro townships as well.

“We teach how to handle the toxic or poisonous gases that could be emitted at the well sites,” said Don McDonald, direc-tor of the Stark County Local Emergency Planning Commis-sion. “Some of these can put a person out of commission with only one whiff. They have to be monitored all the time. Also, wet gas is an extremely volatile product when it comes out of the ground, and we have explosives inside pipes sitting on the scene that are used in the underground fracturing process, which adds to the threat at the well sites. Firefighters may be on the scene for another problem to be addressed that is not related to the well at all, such as a diesel fuel fire or a fire in a mobile home used for an office. But, local first responders have to be trained to realize they cannot handle a situation like this by themselves. They will need to work with technical support groups to manage the scene. In Northeast Ohio, Boots ‘N Coots is the main resource. They are well control specialists and there are less than 100 of these people in the entire world. Boots ‘N Coots have been put on retainer by Chesapeake and the other oil and gas companies in the area. They also go all around the world to give advise to fire chiefs.”

In addition to these dangers, firefighters also have to have a plan in place on how to obtain the amount of water that would be needed to mitigate a pressure blow out, which McDonald said can be anywhere from 3000 to 6000 gallons per minute.

“You will see a 90-foot gas well derrick swallowed in flames during a blowout,” McDonald explained.

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McDonald, who is also a retired Jackson Township firefighter. “Because LEPC is a government agency, we are not biased at all on the topic of horizontal drilling. It is simply a fact. There are nine wells in Stark County in some part of the process of development. So, it’s here. And, because of that, certain train-ing is needed to reduce the vulnerability of the firefighters, EMT’s, law enforcement agencies, and all the public safety workers that are involved. We’ve programmed this training so it can be adapted to any of those venues.”

Review Photo/Kevin GraffDon McDonald, director of the Stark County Local Emergency Planning Commission, displays a PowerPoint slide show used in training first responders for safety in the gas and oil industry.

“We teach how to handle the toxic or poisonous gases that could be emitted at the well sites. Some of these can put a person out of commission with only one whiff. They have to be monitored all the time.”

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The third generation of the family-run business is now leading the company, with Kirk Miller and Lindy Chandler serving as co-chief executive officers.

Ken and Lois Miller started the company in 1959 in Wooster and later relocated operations to Blachleyville Road, Wooster. It

has grown from a single location to 11 stores in five states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia and Virginia.

Past CEO Jack Miller said the company has been successful because “we go to work every day.”

And when he says “every day,” he means it.Kirk Miller recently spent about half of the Memorial Day

weekend at the Wooster location because the drilling rigs do not take days off.

“We’re on call seven days a week now,” Kirk Miller said. “Someone will send an email at 2 in the morning and if we don’t respond right away, we’ll get another email in 20 min-utes asking if something is wrong.”

One time, when the company picked up a new customer, Kirk Miller sent an email asking if the drilling rig would be shut down over the July 4th holiday. He received a simple re-ply: “24. 7. 365.”

“I got the message,” Kirk Miller said.Business has been good lately because there is a lot of drill-

ing east of Interstate 77, Jack Miller said. Within the past four years, there was increased activity in states surrounding Ohio that contributed, too.

“It’s been very good for us,” Jack Miller said. “We can see a lot of strong activity for the next three to five years.”

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The company has seen a lot of changes in the industry over the past five decades. The primary thing the company does is sell steel pipe. It also threads pipe in three states. But, as Kirk Miller said, “We do everything.”

In addition to supplying quality tubular products and ser-vices for the oil and gas industry, it sells production equipment and provides repair services.

When Ken Miller Supply began, it was supplying frac tanks for those drilling in the Clinton formation, which is a shallow formation.

Mike Schenk/The Daily RecordCo-CEO Kirk Miller and his father, former CEO Jack Miller, say Ken Miller Supply has been successful over the years because of good workers and good customers. Jack Miller’s father started the company in 1959, and it has grown to 11 locations in five states.

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