Ohio issues 36 more shale drilling permits, mostly to Chesapeake Energy

Carroll County got the most drilling permits from the state of Ohio in June.

Portage County
Permitted: 8
Drilled: 3
Completed: 1
Producing: 0


Noble County, 4 permits
Guernsey County, 3 permits
Jefferson County, 2 permits
Mahoning County, 2 permits
Belmont County, 1 permit
Wayne County, 1 permit

Carroll County continued to be Ohio’s hot spot for shale drilling, with the state issuing 11 new permits there in June.

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources issued 36 new permits in all for horizontal drilling in the state’s shale play last month, the news service reported. The second-most popular location for drilling permits was Columbiana County, with seven, and Harrison County, with five.



Information obtained through the Hanna Report
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