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MAC TRAILER EXPANDS AGAIN

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PIPELINE DEVELOPERS WANT TO BE TRANSPARENT

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TOP COUNTIES WITH HORIZONTAL DRILLING ACTIVITY

PUBLISHERS Andrew S. Dix G.C. Dix II

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REPORT FINDS NO CHANGE IN WATER QUALITY

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STARK STATE RECEIVES GRANTS FOR OIL AND GAS CURRICULUM

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SHALE INSIGHT 2015 CONFERENCE TO HIGHLIGHT INDUSTRY’S STRENGTHS

David Dix

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WHO IS THE EXPERT WHEN IT COMES TO YOUR OIL AND GAS ROYALTIES?

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WVU STUDY SAYS UTICA SHALE NEXT BIG PRODUCER

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FAMILY-OWNED MOORE WELL SERVICES INC. CONTINUES STRONG WORK IN INDUSTRY

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OHIO WELL ACTIVITY BY THE NUMBERS

EXECUTIVE EDITORS Ray Booth Rob Todor Lance White Roger DiPaolo

REGIONAL EDITORS

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CHIPPEWA MEETING INFORMATION ALLAYS SOME SAFETY PIPELINE SAFETY CONCERNS

Cathryn Stanley Niki Wolfe

INDUSTRY SPURS FIRST HOTEL IN CADIZ Judie Perkowski

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COMPANY EVOLVES TO SUPPORT GAS AND OIL

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OHIO NONPROFIT AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO OIL AND GAS STUDENTS

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MARKWEST ‘SAFETY FIRST’ DETAILED FOR ENERGY COALITION

Erica Peterson

ADVERTISING Kim Brenning

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ATHENS COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS REJECT COMMUNITY ‘BILL OF RIGHTS’

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SURVEYING IS FOCUS OF NEXUS DISPUTE

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EQT HAS ‘POWER YOUR FUTURE’ EXHIBIT

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ROVER PIPELINE TO SPEND $85M WITH OHIO COMPANIES

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FIRST ENERGY INVESTING $4.2 BILLION IN TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE

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OHIO SUPREME COURT RULES ON DORMANT MINERAL ACT

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MARATHON BUYS OUT MARKWEST ENERGY PARTNERS

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UPDATED WORKSHOPS KEEP TEACHERS COMING BACK

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OPINION: SEVERANCE TAX NOT ANSWER TO FUNDING SCHOOLS

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MADE IN AMERICA: GAS/OIL INDUSTRY MAKES MANUFACTURING MORE AFFORDABLE

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NOW IS TIME FOR GAS/OIL EDUCATION

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COMPANY FOUNDER NAMED TO ADVISORY BOARD

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NEW CONSTRUCTION RULES GO INTO EFFECT

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WAYNE COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT WILL NOT ESCORT NEXUS CREWS

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CARROLLTON PLANT TO POWER 750,000 HOMES

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he building that formerly housed the Terry’s Tire with 450 to 500 employees at the plant,” stated Conny. “It is Town corporate headquarters has a new tenant difficult to manage and get parts to our employees in order and it’s a company that already has strong ties to to get their job done in a reasonable amount of time.”

Alliance.

Conny stated that he hopes by next year work to retroMAC Trailer has entered into an agreement with the fit the warehouse at the Terry’s Tire Town facility with five Tolerton family to lease the 190,000-square-foot facility lo- assembly lines will be complete. Eventually, MAC Trailer cated in the Alliance Industrial Park on Main Street Exten- hopes to employ approximately 250 at the facility, producsion. After a short period of time, MAC Trailer will then ing an average of six trailers a day. purchase the building, according to President and CEO “We are bursting at the seams at our current facility,” said Mike Conny.

Corporate Vice President Dennis Postiy. “We have a serious According to Conny, MAC Trailer will move production demand for our product, but currently we are behind on of its aluminum refuse trailer line to the facility, creating orders. We are working hard to get to that production level a waste division plant. The company will continue to man- to meet the needs of our dealers because they are crying ufacture dump trailers at its original plant on Commerce for our product. We realize it’s a good problem to have, but Street, where its corporate headquarters are housed. it’s still a big problem. Plus, we want to do it efficiently and “This all came about relatively fast,” said Conny. “Al- most of all safely for our employees.” though we’ve been planning expansions for the past couple To facilitate the expansion, MAC Trailer has been seeking years, the deal to move into this building was turned around to increase its workforce in all positions. The company held in about 90 days. We’re excited about having this first-class a job fair in May with more than 270 people submitting apfacility right here in Alliance. The Tolerton family worked plications and resumes. According to Gary Conny, human hard to get us in here because they wanted to bring jobs resources director and assistant to the vice president, the back to the area. We also had much support from the city company is still interviewing potential employees from that of Alliance.” event.

Expansion is one thing that is needed for MAC Trailer, “This will only work if we can find the right employees,” the largest manufacturer of custom trailers in North Amer- said Mike Conny. “To me, the transportation business is a ica, according to company officials, noting their goals are to great opportunity for any young person who wants a good boost production and maintain safety standards. job.”

“Our existing facility in Alliance has become cramped Jeff Sheen is a prime example of how a worker at MAC

Trailer can advance, noted Postiy. Sheen, who started out on the shop floor nine years ago, will be general manager of the waste division plant.

“He was willing to come to work every day and learn,” explained Postiy. “He worked hard and took an opportunity to be a manager when we gave it to him. Now he will be running a beautiful facility. It shows that if you come to work and work hard, good things will come.”

“This is a great opportunity for everyone involved,” said Sheen. “Like everyone else, I’m excited about this expansion.”

With the addition of the Industrial Park site, MAC Trailer has approximately 25 acres of manufacturing facilities under roof across the country, including facilities in Salem and

Kent in addition to Billings, Montana, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It employs more than 1,300 workers across the country and has approximately 80 dealers nationwide.

MAC Trailer has approximately 30 percent of the market share in dump trailers. With the expansion, company officials hope to reach 45 percent.

In addition to purchasing the new facility, MAC Trailer also renovated its Commerce Street facility to add meeting rooms as well as a training center for employees, dealers and customers.

“We’re excited to be able to expand in Alliance,” added Conny. “This is our home and we’ve had much support to be here.”

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OOSTER — Developers of the Utopia East pipeline began initial conversations with landowners during an open house at Wooster High School on July 1, saying they want to be transparent.

The pipeline, which is being developed by Kinder Morgan, a Houston-based energy infrastructure company, is projected to cost $500 million. From Harrison County to Fulton County, Allen Fore, vice president of public affairs for Kinder Morgan, said the line will span about 240 miles.

For the most part staying south of Wooster, he said, the line will stretch across Wayne County for about 30 miles.

Fore said the line will be 12 inches in diameter and carry ethane and ethane-propane mixtures across the state to an existing Kinder Morgan line, which will transport the material to Windsor, Ontario. The line will move the material at a rate of 50,000 barrels per day. If additional pump stations are added, the line could move up to 75,000 barrels per day.

“We know this is an agriculturally rich area,” Fore said at the open house.

Fore said Kinder Morgan understands there are a slew of agricultural concerns regarding pipelines, and said the company wants to address them appropriately. He said they started to flesh out how to best address those concerns when it developed the Rockies Express Pipeline, which it put together about a decade ago. The pipeline, which runs between Rio Blanco County, Colorado and Monroe County, Ohio, runs across other areas with robust agricultural communities.

To prepare for the pipeline, he said, the company worked

extensively with the Ohio Farm Bureau. Fore said the company came up with the idea for the open houses through those conversations, which it is not something they are required to do.

It is a laid back atmosphere, he said, where landowners can grab a bite to eat and learn about the pipeline. They can see detailed maps of where the pipeline is projected to go, talk to land men, environmental specialists and engineers.

“We want to make sure we are transparent,” Fore said.

“I have to commend the company for doing those initial meetings along their pipeline route,” said Ohio Farm Bureau Director of Energy, Utility and Local Government Policy Dale Arnold during an interview following the meeting. “That is always a positive first step.”

He said he was involved with helping to educate Kinder Morgan on some of the agricultural community’s concerns when the company first reached out to the Farm Bureau.

The agency told the company about how important it is to put the land back the way it was, and he said the company appears to be cognizant of the concerns.

Arnold said it is still important for landowners and the local Ohio Farm Bureau to continue to dialogue with the company and work the procedures for remediation into the contract. As the contract is effectively a work order, he advised farmers to tell developers “this is going to be the way it is going to be.”

Fore said the company is hoping to continue dialoguing with landowners and will soon begin working on contacts.

Construction is slated to begin in November 2018, and the pipeline should be operational by January 2018.

Those initial conversations with the Ohio Farm Bureau, he said, have been very useful in contract negotiations. Fore said all the issues the identified have been delineated in the contracts.

Mike Priest, who lives near New Pittsburgh on Elyria road, said the pipeline is running right across his entire property, which he rents out to local farmers. While it will likely impact him, he said he is not yet ready to discuss his specific concerns.

“I haven’t even sat down to talk to anyone,” Priest said.

“It’s in the early stages.”

While there other plenty of farmers at the meeting, they shared Priest’s sentiment — electing to remain silent for the time being.

Wayne County Commissioner Ann Obrecht said she was at the meeting representing the commissioners and was looking out for the county’s interests. While it appears as though Kinder Morgan is trying to be a good steward, she said pipelines have the potential to damage farmland if not installed properly. She encouraged farmers to follow Arnold’s recommendation and take initiative during the negotiations.

“It’s the landowners that will need to work with them,” Obrecht said.

Reporter Thomas Doohan can be reached at 330-287-1635 or tdoohan@the-daily-record.com.

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Nicole Jacobs - Energy in Depth The Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) has released its third report for the Remote Water Quality Monitoring Network (RWQMN). SRBC has been collecting data in Pennsylvania and New York since 2010, and this latest report provides a comprehensive analysis of the conditions across the SRBC network. The bottom line – data show Marcellus Shale drilling is not negatively impacting water quality in the river basin.

From the SRBC press release (emphasis added): Of the 58 watersheds covered in this report, SRBC has observed: • with continuous monitoring from 2010-2013, data collected did not indicate any changes in water quality; • with a few exceptions, the water chemistry at the monitoring stations indicates good water quality; and • the results of aquatic insect monitoring were not affected by the density of upstream natural gas wells or pads.

Currently the monitoring network has 59 stations that continuously monitor for pH, temperature, dissolved oxygen, specific conductance, and turbidity. Quarterly samples are also taken for metals, nutrients, ions, and radionuclides.

“One of the main concerns with natural gas fracking is radionuclides. For this reason, SRBC included gross alpha and beta sample collection into the discrete sampling routine at each station which tests for all sources of alpha and beta radioactivity. Since sampling for these parameters began in 2010, there have been no samples collected that have exceeded water quality standards for both gross alpha and gross beta.” (pg. 16, emphasis added) The data also looked at macroinvertebrate levels.

Neither well density nor well pad density appear strongly related to macroinvertebrate IBI score. Indeed, using a linear regression model, neither factor explained greater than 1 percent of the variability in IBI scores for any given year (Table 13).

SRBC Executive Director Andrew Dehoff told Fox 43, “The Commission takes very seriously one of its core functions of monitoring water quality conditions in the streams and rivers of the Susquehanna Basin. This third report provides more information on the data collected as part of the Commission’s effort to evaluate whether or not water quality conditions in streams are reflecting impacts associated with natural gas drilling.”

SRBC says that the data will also be analyzed by universities and various agencies to study the impacts of natural gas development, climate change and road salt usage. Fortunately, the data show the Marcellus Shale industry is operating without impacting Pennsylvania’s waterways. This also comes on the heels of the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) report that found fracking has “not led to widespread, systematic impacts to drinking water resources.” In Pennsylvania, if an incident were to occur, according to SRBC, “Pennsylvania agencies have used the continuous water chemistry data to track the events and determine if any water quality impacts occurred.”

Fortunately, data show impacts are not happening and the SRBC will continue to provide ongoing monitoring to ensure the high quality streams in the Susquehanna River Basin are not impaired.

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ANTON -- Stark State College has been awarded $3.26 million in grants from the Department of Labor (DOL) and The Timken Foundation to fund oil and gas related labs and equipment, according to information released by the college in June.

The college said it plans to use the funds for course-related activities at the Energy Innovation Center in its downtown Canton Satellite Center, scheduled for completion this year.

The $2.76 million from DOL and $500,000 from The Timken Foundation will fund education training systems for associate degree and certificate programs related to the growing oil and gas industry. Stark State said it plans to offer programs in welding, water sampling and analysis, safety, surveying, industrial operations, maintenance and more.

In addition, these funds will cover costs to create and supply training labs for oil and gas instrumentation and electronics, geographic information systems (GIS), geology, drilling, production and welding.

Funding will also cover development of ShaleNET-US and Lease Operator labs, which include mock-ups and supplies for well head, tank battery, pump jack, natural gas compression and production/well site training.

“These generous awards position Stark State College to become a national model for curriculum development in the shale oil and gas industry,” said Para M. Jones, Ph.D., president of Stark State College.

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Stark State received $10 million from the State of Ohio in February 2011 to build the new downtown Canton Satellite Center that will include training for the oil and gas industry.

“It’s very exciting for Stark State to plan a new downtown center that will play such a critical workforce development role for Ohio’s oil and gas industry and promote economic development in northeast Ohio,” Jones commented. “Our industry-approved credentialing, credit-based stackable certificates and degrees prepare adults for various stages of employment and will allow them to progress to develop new skills for advanced employment.”

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HILADELPHIA -- While Philadelphia lies outside of Pennsylvania’s world-class shale formations, the region’s iconic Marcus Hook complex is experiencing a rebirth thanks to responsible shale development throughout the Commonwealth. Not long ago, however, the headlines read of regional plant closings and layoffs. Yet in a stark turnaround, Marcus Hook as well as other Philadelphia-area petrochemical facilities and the communities they support are positioning the region to once again be a leading energy hub along the East Coast. With this positive transformation come good jobs – many of them for local and regional union members – that pay family-supporting wages.

Adding to and helping to enable this bright outlook, Sunoco Logistics’ proposed Mariner East pipeline infrastructure projects will deliver natural gas liquids from western Pennsylvania to Marcus Hook – projects that the Laborers’ International Union of North America called a “lifeline to good union jobs with family-supporting pay.” These expansion projects are expected to generate nearly $4.2 billion in economic activity in Pennsylvania, support 30,000 construction jobs and trigger nearly $62 million in net tax revenue for the Commonwealth, according to a recent study.

Midstream infrastructure development – like the Mariner East pipeline and countless other projects underway or planned – are critical to delivering shale’s end-use benefits to manufacturers, families, small businesses and other consumers who are benefitting from our abundant, reliable and affordable natural gas supplies. In fact, average households are saving at least $800 annually thanks to shale development, according to a new Harvard Business School study.

As infrastructure to move more clean-burning natural gas continues to be built by hardworking Pennsylvanians, families and manufactures stand to realize additional energy savings.

It’s stories like the transformation of southeastern Pennsylvania and the numerous end-use benefits of shale that will be highlighted at SHALE INSIGHT™ 2015, which is generously sponsored by XTO Energy, Sunoco Logistics, Range Resources Corporation, MarkWest Energy Partners

and Bracewell & Giuliani, as well as many other leading energy and supply chain companies.

The shale industry’s premier annual conference will be held in Philadelphia on September 16-17 and will feature more than 100 of the nation’s foremost leaders in shale development and public policy; exhibits and displays of the latest technological innovations; and opportunities to engage with decision-makers from the industry’s largest shale developers and supply chain companies.

SHALE INSIGHT™ 2015 will explore the latest technologies to safely maximize production, deliver gas to market and expand natural gas uses aimed especially at revitalizing our region’s manufacturing sector.

In fact, two featured speakers will discuss shale’s benefits to strengthening American national security as well as the innovations that are driving production efficiencies. Former New York City mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani will be a featured presentation, discussing the clear energy securityrelated benefits of American energy. Energy expert Robert Bryce, Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute will discuss technological advancements in a presentation titled, “Innovation, Shale, and the Second American Century.”

Additionally, general session presentations will offer insight into every aspect of responsible shale development – from upstream sessions such as “Water Treatment, Technology and Storage” presented by Fluid Recovery Services (FRS); to midstream sessions “How Applicants Can Manage Effectively a FERC Project” by UGI Energy Services; and downstream session “Making it Happen: How Philadelphia Can Be the Next Energy Demand Center,” presented

by Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC. With continuous progress as well as challenges facing our industry, SHALE INSIGHT™ 2015 offers an opportunity to collaborate with decision-makers on best-practices that will ensure the sustained safety and focused development of Pennsylvania’s resources.

Become a sponsor, exhibit, or register today by visiting www.ShaleInsight.com to capitalize on this unique opportunity to gain unprecedented industry access. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia.

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hen you are looking for an estate planning lawyer, what should you look for? That’s a really great questions and one you need to ask whenever you are considering engaging or recommending an estate or business planning attorney.

A lawyer is only an expert at part of what they do; they know and understand the law on a high level in their particular area! But are they the one who can best tell you, the client, what you should do with your life, your wealth and your legacy? Are they the one who should, once they learn what you want to do, be telling you the particular, singular strategy you should engage them to employ?

You are the experts on who you and your loved ones are, even if you may not realize it, and you usually do not. You as the client are the expert in the room—and we lawyers had better never forget that.

Attorneys, even those who are sensitive to their clients’ needs and objectives, traditionally tend to listen until they think they know enough about the clients. They may even probe a little deeper. But sooner rather than later, they’ve got the information they have always known was enough.

Then they reach into their tool box and select a strategy or two that fits what they’ve always known was in the best interests of clients with this particular amount of financial wealth, this particular amount of desired control, and so on.

The good attorney then tells the client about the chosen strategy and why it will “fit the bill.” A not so good lawyer is likely to just tell the client to come back in a couple of weeks and sign the plan documents.

There’s a story about a man who believed he was dying and was terrified about who would raise his young daughters – he was a single parent. He searched among his friends and acquaintances and came up with what he called A Council of Dads. They listened, were intrigued and agreed to serve. It sounded sort of like a panel of trustees serving a trust.

The point is, this client thought outside the box. He discovered a loving and meaningful solution to what at first

appeared as an impossible situation. How many lawyers would have thought of that for a client? Only one who recognizes who the expert in the room really is. That’s the kind of lawyer we all should want to have. A really great lawyer will have spent lots of time early on in discussions with the client, recorded some of the client’s life stories, and drawn deeply held values from the client that the client was unaware of or was unable to easily articulate.

The client expects the attorney to be the expert – that’s why they came to the attorney in the first place. Once the attorney recognizes the client’s expertise and does some real listening; now he can employ what he knows best.

Lawyers know that there is usually more than one way to skin a cat; more than one tool in the box. Understanding who this client is and clearly hearing what he or she wants to accomplish gives the lawyer many options. Now when the lawyer explains two or three different options, and applies his special knowledge to each one, the client receives what she truly wanted in the first place, a plan that will actually meet client expectations, will warm hearts and have meaning for all concerned.

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ORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Driven in part by production from Marcellus Shale and other shale plays, natural gas has surpassed coal as the leading source of our nation’s electricity, and now a West Virginia University-led study suggests there’s more to come underneath the Marcellus.

Results of the study provide evidence that the Utica play, which spans West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio and New York, is much larger than original estimates, and its size and potential recoverable resources are comparable to the Marcellus play, the largest shale oil and gas play in the U.S. and the second largest in the world.

Data from Utica Shale Play Book Study, a two-year geological study conducted by the Appalachian Oil and Natural Gas Research Consortium, a program of the National Research Center for Coal and Energy at WVU, were presented at a workshop today (July 14) in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.

The majority of the Utica Shale play lies beneath the Marcellus Shale play. The interval between the two plays – the space between the Marcellus and the deeper Utica – ranges from 4,000 feet in Ohio to greater than 6,500 feet in West Virginia. The drilling depth of the Utica ranges from less than 4,000 feet in Ohio to more than 12,000 feet in West Virginia, which is more than two miles below the surface.

In 2013, a study by the U.S. Energy Information Administration, reported that Marcellus Shale operators produced 2.86 trillion cubic feet of gas. In a 2012 study, the U.S.

Geological Survey estimated that technically recoverable resources in the Utica – the volume that can be extracted from the reservoir using existing technology – were 38 trillion cubic feet of gas and an additional 940 million barrels of oil.

WVU’s study shows that the Utica play contains technically recoverable resources of 782 Tcf of gas and 1,960 MMbo. “The revised resource numbers are impressive, comparable to the numbers for the more established Marcellus Shale play, and a little surprising based on our Utica estimates of just a year ago which were lower,” said Douglas Patchen, director of the consortium and well-known expert on the Appalachian Basin.

“But this is why we continued to work on the resource estimates after the project officially ended a year ago. The more wells that are drilled, the more the play area may expand, and another year of production from the wells enables researchers to make better estimates.”

The project was the brainchild of Patchen and had three main objectives: • Assess the geological characteristics of Utica and equivalent rocks in the northern Appalachian basin • Define Utica oil and gas fairways • Provide resource assessments Patchen said that the general public may only be interested in the resource numbers, but the research consortium wanted to undertake a multi-disciplinary, basin-wide proj-

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“Our research spanned basin-wide subsurface correlation and mapping of potential pay zones to macroscopic and microscopic examination of cores and thin sections of reservoirs to the nano-scale development of porosity in organic rich zones,” he said.

In addition to estimates of oil and gas resources, the research team presented comprehensive data on the stratigraphy, petrology, reservoirs and areal distribution of the play.

Researchers found that: • The play is actually neither “Utica” nor “shale” and data point to an interbedded limestone and organic-rich shale interval in the underlying Point Pleasant Formation as the preferred drilling target; • The most productive hydrocarbon source rocks tend to be the Point Pleasant Formation and the upper and Logana members of the Lexington/Trenton Formation; • The combination of a relatively shallow reservoir and the potential for liquids production make Utica an attractive play for producers; • Original gas-in-place – the amount of hydrocarbon store in the reservoir prior to production – is approximately 3,192 Tcf and original oil-in-place is approximately 82,903 MMbo; and • It is expected that given current technology the play-wide oil recovery factor will be approximately 3% and

the gas recovery factor will be approximately 28% in the “sweet spot” areas.

“This is a landmark study that demonstrates the vast potential of the Utica as a resource to complement – and go beyond – what the Marcellus has already proven to be,” said Brian Anderson, director of WVU’s Energy Institute. “Dr. Patchen and his team are to be commended for assembling an impressive consortium to undertake such a comprehensive study such as this.”

The consortium is a partnership of 15 industry members, four state geological surveys, two universities, one consulting company, and one national lab. Members include the WVU National Research Center for Coal and Energy, Washington University, the Kentucky Geological Survey, the Ohio Geological Survey, the Pennsylvania Geological Survey, the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey, the U.S. Geological Survey, Smith Stratigraphic, and the U.S. Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory.

The consortium was sponsored by Anadarko, Chevron, CNX, ConocoPhillips, Devon, EnerVest, EOG Resources, EQT, Hess, NETL Strategic Center for Natural Gas and Oil, Range Resources, Seneca Resources, Shell, Southwestern Energy and Tracker Resources.

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Along with the regular well and gas work the company does, Moore Well Services has shown an interest in product, AquaSalina. It’s an all-natural saltwater product that is used to de-ice roads. Moore Well is working with the processing and marketing of the product. AquaSalina, which has a freeze point of minus-15 degrees Fahrenheit, is a product that can be extremely beneficial all throughout Ohio during the winter months.

Throughout all the projects the company has, Keith and Jeff Moore, like their father before them, maintain a commitment to the state of Ohio and its citizens in providing the best work at the convenience of their customers.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Some of the information in this story was from www.ooga.org’s recent “Member Spotlight” on Jeff Moore. You can find OOGA’s full article at http://www. ooga.org/blogpost/1230994/220906/Member-Spotlight-JeffMoore-Moore-Well-Services-Inc. Contact this reporter at 330-298-1123 or abugel@recordpub.com

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TOW, OH –– Jeff and Keith Moore are no strangers to the oil and well industry. In fact, they have been a part of it since the days they worked with their father Bob Moore at K.S.T. Oil and Gas Company.

Keith started at K.S.T. in 1985 while brother Jeff started with the company in 1987. In 1995, K.S.T. went out of business and that’s how Moore Well Services, Inc. began.

“When K.S.T. was sold in 1995, my father, brother and I bought some of the assets and we were able to start Moore Well Services,” Keith Moore said. “We’ve been at it ever since.”

Founded in April 1996, Moore Well Services, located at 837 Seasons Road, currently employes 13 people, including Jeff and Keith. The company specializes in operating gas and oil wells all throughout Ohio, including parts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. In 2009, Bob Moore passed away and Keith and Jeff officially took over the company.

“We are a company that will basically do anything that involves oil and gas,” Keith said. “We work all throughout the state and we can pretty much fix every single problem any time, day and night.

Moore Well Services currently has 240 of its own operating wells. The company is equipped with service rigs, water trucks, full-time pumpers and mechanics. Business right now is going well, according to Keith, although the recent downturn in oil and gas prices has presented some challenges.

“As a company, we are always looking to expand,” Keith said. “Being that we service all throughout the state of Ohio, we really have no problem staying busy, even with the decrease in the gas and oil prices.”

Last year, one of the big projects the company was involved in was the plugging of a leaking gas well at the Admiral Ernest J. King Elementary School.

“We had to hook one of our rigs up in the gymnasium floor and literally remove a part of the school to get to the

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OYLESTOWN, OH -- With the NEXUS pipeline passing through Chippewa Township, fire Chief Ron Browning said he is concerned about safety implications.

The chief voiced concerns at a meeting with Chippewa Township trustees, residents and Ohio Farm Bureau director of Energy, Utility and Local Government Policy Dale Arnold. It was hosted at Chippewa High School on July 8.

Many at the meeting were there with concerns about the pipeline, which, being developed by DTE Energy and Spectra Energy, will have a diameter of 36 inches and carry 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day at a pressure not to exceed 1,440 pounds per square inch.

"I'm concerned," Browning said, noting the 6.12 miles of pipeline cutting across Chippewa Township is a lot of pipeline to monitor. With the line passing through farm fields and residential communities, he said, "how do we know if it gets nicked."

Spectra Energy's website, spectraenergy.com, states there are several processes in place for monitoring the lines that will pick up on damages quickly. According to an operational safety fact sheet found under the NEXUS Gas Transmission page of the New Projects and Our Process icon on the website, pipeline workers will do routine inspection of the pipeline's protective coating in exposed areas, internal inspections of the pipeline, ground surveys, frequent leak surveys and aerial patrols.

In a March email, NEXUS manager of stakeholder outreach Arthur Diestel emphasized the company's commitment

to safety procedures and said the developers "have a strong safety record."

"NEXUS's parent companies have outstanding safety records and will take all necessary safety precautions should NEXUS receive approval for this project," he said.

Having heard about some of the safety measures at the meeting, Browning said some of his nerves have been settled. Providing even more confidence in developers, he said, is the fact they are willing to work with fire departments and do hands-on training with responders.

"We want to work with them, not against them," Browning said.

That being said, the chief said there are still some issues that need work moving forward. Particularly, he said, the accessibility to the lines is of particular importance. Browning said some of the lines are in remote ares.

"How do we get access back where they put those lines in," he said.

Baughman Township trustee and East Wayne Fire District Chairman Don Grimes, who attended the meeting, said is particularly true during times when rain fall levels are at their highest. He noted with all the rain fall Wayne County has experienced in the last month, getting a truck to the far reaches of a field could be very challenging.

Reporter Thomas Doohan can be reached at 330-2871635 or tdoohan@thedaily-record.com.

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CADIZ -- The village of Cadiz welcomed a new and different kind of business on June 18 when Microtel Inn & Suites opened the village’s first hotel.

Home to about 3,300 residents in Ohio’s Utica shale region, Cadiz is now also host to oil and gas workers and other visitors who stay in the 81-room hotel at 620 Lincoln Ave. Ben St. John, a developer who has previously specialized in renovating homes in the San Fracisco area, is co-managing the hotel with hospitality executive Greg de Marrais of Hotel Development and Management Corp. based in West Virginia.

St. John’s company, Harrison Development LLC, developed the hotel.

In the coming months Cadiz will see its second hotel when Farid Guindo, an out-of-town developer with Drill Capital LLC, opens a Days Inn and Suites.

Cadiz and surrounding communities in Harrison County have seen some of the most active oil and gas drilling operations in Ohio. The village is the location of a major natural gas processing facility owned by MarkWest Energy Partner LP.

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unning a successful oil and gas operation, as those who are in the industry know, requires more than a rig and a drill bit.

Chemicals used at well pads require safe handling, water must be hauled and treated, equipment requires cleaning, and most of the working parts of the pad, including the oil and gas, must be transported. Fencing and, in Ohio, snow removal are additional necessities that keep a site going.

Then one needs the personnel who make all of this happen and the facilities to support them.

Evolution Energy Services can provide just about all of this -- right down to the portable restrooms.

“We wanted to take a little bit of what we saw at other companies that we worked at, take the good parts of all that, and build something. We’re hands on,” explained Bill Patterson, who co-founded and co-owns Evolution with business partner Josh Kinney. “We can provide just about everything that there is to provide in oil and gas.”

Evolution Energy offers 10 service categories for oil and gas operations, from water hauling equipment and hotshots to roustabouts, materials handling, equipment rentals and safety training. But the seed of the business began, rather humbly, with two young men, a few trucks and some portable restrooms.

At age 19, Patterson, a Minerva, Ohio, resident, established a small business servicing portable restrooms for larger businesses. His approach to the business, he explained, was what helped make it successful.

“It was easy for me to get work because...I wanted to keep it local with the businesses. They could tell it wasn’t corporate. It was me that was going out and (doing it),” Patterson stated.

After selling the company in 2004, Patterson took his handy-man skills from Minerva to the military, where he serviced helicopters, and from there moved into business development and industrial cleaning operations. Back in the Minerva area, Patterson next took a job as a truck driver before once again taking on business development responsibilities.

Josh Kinney happened to work next door to the business where Patterson headed to work each morning. Both had positions that took them to oil and gas drilling sites.

“We kept running into each other at these well pads,” said Patterson. “He was like, it’s your contacts, it’s my contacts...we should try to do this on our own. And I was like, let’s do it.”

As Patterson and Kinney worked their way up through the ranks at their jobs, they saved their dollars and, in March of 2014, invested them in the founding of Evolution Energy Services.

The business began by offering containment and pressure washing services to the oil and gas industry. In August of 2014, Patterson and Kinney purchased trucks to haul fresh water, water to be processed, and other materials related to oil and gas operations. In January of the following year, the two men established Evolution Energy Chemical.

Today, the Evolution Energy umbrella covers four divisions, each of which provides a variety of services. Evolution Energy Services encompasses staffing and facilities needs. Evolution Energy Trucking provides transportation, Evolution Energy Solutions specializes in water treatment, and Evolution Energy Chemical offers chemical handling and containment services.

The company’s staff, which Patterson said ranges from

80 to 150 people, are trained to operate Evolution’s fleet of 6 hotshots, tilt decks and related vehicles; pressure-wash equipment; provide escort and flagging services as well as spotters; provide primary and secondary containment; run backyard services; and hook up and operate drilling equipment at a rig.

Patterson said many of the company’s 40 to 50 roustabouts have experience from other energy services companies, including companies where Patterson and Kinney worked, and all have been through Evolution Energy’s program, which includes hands-on training and an assigned mentor.

Meanwhile, the business’s on-staff chemical engineer helps manage services that provide and handle chemicals at well sites.

“We can provide any kind of chemical that is out there, from the glycol to the soaps,” Patterson stated.

The company is also able to provide oil and gas operations with equipment for rent, including light plants, flameless heaters, skid steers, JLG vehicles, hundred-barrel trucks, and a growing supply of portable restrooms.

Patterson noted that the company has 100 restrooms available now and is securing another 500.

“The term I used back when I first got into this is that I have the ‘Cadillac’ of portable restrooms. The big thing is the service. The people I have taking care of these units really care about their job and appreciate what we do,” Patterson commented.

He added that all of Evolution Energy’s staff, whether trained as roustabouts, truck drivers or technicians, are required to complete regular safety training that he said adds to the level of service they bring to oil and gas operations.

“With having to be compliant in the oil and gas (industry), it’s a huge demand. We go beyond what the minimum is. We definitely set a higher standard when it comes to safety,” Patterson said. “We spend a lot of money...making sure that all of our employees are safe. The main goal is that they can go back home each night.”

With trainer/supervisor Nicole Schoeppner, also a Minerva resident, the company offers a variety of safety training courses for oil and gas companies, including HASMAT, HAZWOPER and confined space entry training.

“We’re doing a confined space rescue team that we’re putting together now for the energy companies to where we’re a go-to company,” said Patterson.

Patterson admitted that many other companies offer some of the services that Evolution Energy Services provides. However, he stated, Evolution Energy’s service, provided by local people who live near oil and gas operations, sets the business apart.

“You hear ‘work for.’ We work with,” Patterson remarked. “We’re good people to work with. No matter what we do, it’s the service. That’s how we’re able to make any of this happen. We’re close, local.”

A number of oil and gas companies agree. Patterson said Evolution Energy has counted Eclipse, Gulfport, XTO Energy, Chesapeake, American Energy, Southwestern Energy and others among its clients.

Evolution Energy covers Utica and Marcellus shale operations with its Pittsburgh headquarters and a satellite office in Cadiz, Ohio. The company can be reached by calling 330-495-1341.

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OLUMBUS -- With the expansion of the oil and gas industry in Ohio, one nonprofit organization has taken on the responsibility to show the need for young employees in the industry by awarding a record number of scholarships.

Ohio’s Oil and Gas Energy Education Program is a nonprofit organization that awards scholarships to top students seeking to enter the oil and gas field and travels to schools informing educators and students about the jobs that need filled in the industry.

Charlie Dixon, safety and workforce director for OOGEEP, said the program is catching on and schools across Ohio are seeing the importance of raising up capable workers for the gas and oil industry across Ohio.

The organization also travels to schools hosting teacher workshops to educate teachers about the jobs that will be in need of workers in the coming years in the oil and gas industry.

“More and more schools are inviting us to come and speak,” he said.

The OOGEEP is trying to educate people on the jobs that are out there in the oil and gas industry, but they are competing with a cultural belief that blue-collar work is not ideal or worth pursuing educationally.

“There has been so much of an emphasis on the arts and humanities for many years and we may have lost a connection with students who may be better fitted for the school trades and manufacturing positions. We are all dependant on energy in our everyday life and we need folks to work to produce that for us,” said Mark Bruce, communications director for OOGEEP. The average age for an oil field worker is 55, according to the OOGEEP. There are more than 75 careers available in Ohio and more than 70 Ohio institutions that offer training in those fields.

The lack of interest over the years in the sciences as a career and the aging workforce, coupled with the increase in oil and

gas jobs across the state, leaves a plethora of career opportunities open for young adults.

This year, OOGEEP awarded 56 scholarships to students attending 19 different universities. All students must be an Ohio resident or attending an Ohio university or technical school with a career goal in the crude oil and gas industry.

Christian Oyster, a 2015 graduate of Marlington High School, is one of the students who received a $1,000 renewable scholarship from the Ohio Oil and Gas Education Program.

He got a taste for the industry in the oil and gas program at Marlington High School. Marlington offers a unique program meant to give students a framework of the skills they will need to work in the oil and gas industry. Students learn everything from plumbing skills to electrical skills, welding and machine driving skills.

“If it wasn’t for that program I probably wouldn’t be interested in going into the oil and gas industry,” he said.

Oyster has already started summer classes at Stark State College, where he plans to earn an associate’s degree in production technology.

He said while the job will entail a lot of hard work, he is happy to enter an industry he knows will always be around and will be a reliable source of income.

“It’s a lot of hard work, but that doesn’t bother me, I’m used to it. ... It’s always interesting, there’s new technology out all the time,” he said.

Dixon said students like Oyster who become qualified in an oil and gas job are the future inventors and developers in that field.

“These students are fresh, young, energetic blood in our industry that will develop the next Utica,” he said.

OOGEEP is funded entirely by Ohio’s oil and gas producers with the mission to facilitate educational, scholarship and safety programs and to promote public awareness about the positive environmental, energy and economic impacts of the state’s oil and gas industry.

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AMBRIDGE -- Keeping with Jo Sexton’s pre-requisite criteria of quality programs entertained at the Thursday morning Guernsey Energy Coalition meetings, Ed Ross, safety manager at MarkWest EMG LLC Utica, spoke to the audience about the Safety First Program at MarkWest facilities in Ohio.

Sexton is president of the Cambridge Area Chamber of Commerce and sponsors the Energy Coalition meetings at the Southgate Hotel in Cambridge.

MarkWest Energy Partners, a leading provider of midstream services in the natural gas industry, formed in January 2002, is engaged in the gathering, processing and transportation of natural gas; the transportation, fractionation, storage and marketing of natural gas liquid; and the gathering and transportation of crude oil. In the Utica Segment, MarkWest is partnered with the Energy & Minerals Group.

MarkWest has three facilities in eastern Ohio: A fractionation plant in Jewett; a processing facility in Summerfield and a land office in Wintersville. The company’s most recent addition, a 20,000 square foot administration building in Belmont County which opened in June.

The company has invested more than $2.5 billion dollars in Ohio, in addition to employing local workers.

“As anyone can imagine there are many challenges associated with midstream operations,” said Ross.

Running pipeline from well pads to compression stations, then on the cryogenic plants to remove natural gas liquids, separate the propane, butane, iso-butane and natural gas and then ship it by rail or truck to end markets and consumers, can be daunting.

Ross’s PowerPoint presentation highlighted the company’s 14-point Safety Program, approved by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The agency ensures safe and healthy working conditions for Americans by enforcing standards and providing workplace safety training.

“The Process Safety Management program was enacted in the Clean Air Act amendments in 1990, which developed regulations to help prevent catastrophic release of highly hazardous materials,” said Ross. “The PSM requires MarkWest to control hazardous chemicals to protect the public and the environment. Our interest in the welfare of our employees, our contractors’ employees and the environment is our primary concern.”

The Process Safety Management requires: • First and foremost, be familiar with all the acronyms associated with the Environmental Protection Agency’s rules and regulations for any stage of processing hazardous chemicals. A Risk Management Plan is audited by the EPA.

• Employee participation. Equal partners must share information and play a vital role in the development of a Process Hazard Anaylsis and other elements integrated in the process; • Process Safety information for employees before or while conducting a PHA. • PHA or Process Hazard Analysis. Employers must evaluate the hazards of their processes to make sure safeguards are in place and sufficient to prevent a catastrophic release of EPA regulated substances. The employer’s PHAs must be re-evaluated every five years.

• Training for employees, contractors and their employees.

Must understand what is happening at the plant, and all must certified before working at the facility.

Other components of the PSM program include operational procedures, mechanical integrity of equipment, pre-start-up safety review, hot work permit, significant or non-significant management change to the operation, procedure or process; emergency response of a highly hazardous chemical, compliance audits, must be completed every three years by an outside company, every week in-house.

Also, there are no Trade Secrets Allowed. Saying something is a trade secret is not a reason for not complying with any regulation.

The only trade secret agreement that could be used by a company would be a requirement of employment and/or for contractors and their employees to not reveal the company’s process or related products.

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t hasn’t been a good week for anti-fracking activists and the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF). Just a few days ago, CELDF suffered yet another court ruling against the so-called “Community Bill of Rights” to ban fracking. Today, the CELDF was dealt another blow, as the Athens County Board of Elections voted unanimously to reject the recent ballot initiative for a “bill of rights”, leaving anti-fracking groups devastated and calling the defeat a “travesty”.

As a reminder in Ohio, local controls have been rejected as the Ohio Department of Natural Resources has been given sole regulatory authority over the oil and gas industry, per the Ohio Revised Code.

Despite the clear language of the petition, which states the

exact opposite found in the CELDF authored charter amendment, the Athens News reported a community leader saying, “I do not believe that enactment of this charter will allow the Board of County Commissioners to make sweeping changes on horizontal drilling, injection wells, Numbers Fest, or the use of eminent domain, as some may contemplate. The charter process allows a county to take or share power of a municipal corporation. To date, a charter has never taken authority from the state.”

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Mark Gillispie - The Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The company planning to build an industrial-sized natural gas pipeline across northern Ohio has been waging and mostly winning court battles to allow surveyors onto people’s property to determine a preferred route that will be submitted to a federal agency for approval.

The $2 billion project is being proposed by NEXUS Gas Transmission, a subsidiary of Houston-based Spectra Energy and Detroit-based DTE Energy. Attorneys for NEXUS have obtained temporary restraining orders in Fulton, Lorain, Sandusky, Lucas and Wood counties that allowed surveyors onto the land of those sued.

A case is pending in Erie County and, on July 17, a judge in Medina County denied NEXUS’ request for a restraining order and set a trial date to hear arguments on Sept. 24.

Liz Athaide-Victor, one of the leaders of a citizens group opposed to NEXUS’ pipeline plans, likens the company to “schoolyard bullies.”

“I think the court battles are just beginning,” Athaide-Victor said.

NEXUS has surveyed about two-thirds of the thousands of Ohio properties in the proposed path. It needs to complete the surveys to meet its self-imposed November deadline for submitting an application with the company’s preferred route to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for approval.

In related news, oil bosses broke a long climate silence with an urgent initiative.

The company is proposing to build 200 miles of underground pipeline from Columbiana County in southeast Ohio to the Michigan border in northwest Ohio, moving as much as 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas each day. Another 50 miles will be built in Michigan, ending at the Canadian border. NEXUS wants to start construction in early 2017 and have the project completed by the end of the year.

NEXUS spokesman Arthur Diestel said the pipeline will get affordable natural gas to customers in Ohio, Michigan, Chicago and Canada to meet growing need of all types: industrial, commercial and residential. Diestel said 90 percent of the proposed route would traverse existing rights of way and agricultural land. And, he said, the company is committed to restoring all property, including wetlands, used for pipeline construction.

“We want to minimize those impacts, and we want to mitigate them,” Diestel said.

Property owners and public officials who are opposed to the current proposed route continue to dig in. They worry about what the pipeline will do to property values and are concerned about the potential danger that that a high-pressure pipeline represents in the unlikely event that there’s an explosion.

But Ohio law is on NEXUS’ side. Companies that want to build a pipeline or install other utilities have the right to survey and “appropriate” as much land as needed to complete projects. But nothing will be built unless FERC approves a route.

When that occurs, the company will have to negotiate a price for using someone’s property.

“They’ll pay for the land, but I’m not for sale,” said Robert Wheeler, who owns just over 110 acres in Erie County’s Milan Township.

Wheeler thought that having his property listed on the National Register of Historic Places might cause NEXUS to reroute the pipeline around him. The house he lives in was built in the early 1820s. A distant relative, the sister of inventor Thomas Edison, once lived in the home. His neighbors relented and allowed the surveyors to do their work. Wheeler refused and become a defendant in a NEXUS lawsuit.

“They said they can’t fight them,” said Wheeler, a musician.

“You might not be able to win, but I’m sure going to try.”

Kathy Cikotte is another Erie County defendant. She owns eight acres in Berlin Township where she raises alpacas and horses.

“A lot of people are feeling intruded upon,” Cikotte said.

“Where are the rights of the property owner to say, “No, I don’t want this’?”

Dick Norton, the mayor of Green, a city 10 miles south of Akron in Summit County, says he understands the economics and the need for transporting gas from the shale fields, but is opposed to having the pipeline come through his city of 26,000 people.

“FERC requires an installer to avoid public places such as schools, office buildings, parks and anything to do with wetlands and areas environmentally protected,” Norton said.

“Their routes violate all of those.”

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ITTSBURGH — More than 1,000 children and adults toured the EQT STEM Mobile exhibit during one of the cities favorite events, the Three Rivers Regatta where the EQT Foundation, charitable arm of EQT Corporation, unveiled the “Power Your Future” mobile exhibit. The event was sponsored by a $500,000 grant from the EQT Foundation and Energy Corp. of America. “Power Your Future” is operated by the Clay Center in Charleston, W.Va. The exhibit was presented to the public July 3-5 in Pittsburgh.

“On a few occasions, people were lined up to get in,” said EQT media relations manager Linda Robertson. “The Clay Center administrators were very happy with the number of people who visited the STEM Mobile exhibit and were interested in learning about natural gas production and how a STEM curriculum is beneficial to younger generations, many of whom may be starting to think about what they want to do when they head to college and beyond.”

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s the ET Rover pipeline’s construction start date approaches, Ohio companies prepare to make major money.

ET Rover company recently announced tens of millions of dollars in supplies and labor will be spent in the next year in Ohio as construction on the dual pipeline begins, but some other businesses are benefiting from the pipeline’s construction like law firms representing landowners whose property is above the pipeline.

The ET Rover Pipeline announced the company will pay more than $85 million on supplies and labor in the construction of the two 42 inch natural gas pipelines that will go through Ohio heading north to Canada.

Rover is now placing orders for materials and labor needed for the construction of the pipeline, expected to begin in January.

The company will purchase product from Ohio-based companies as well as contract with Ohio companies for the construction work. This will create an approximate 6,500 construction jobs in Ohio. They also estimated more than $90 million will be paid directly to landowners for easements in Ohio and approximately $135 million in ad valorem taxes in Ohio the first year the pipeline is in service.

Currently the Ohio-based vendor list for ET Rover includes: • Ariel Corporation out of Mt. Vernon for $34.7 million, • Industrial Piping Specialists from Struthers and Warren Group/Allied Fitting from Fairfield for $27 million • Emerson Process Management Automation, Inc. for $10.6 million • Port of Cleveland, Marine Terminal Operator in Cleveland for $5 million

• Tiger Sand & Gravel out of Massillon for $4.4 million • Pioneer Pipe/Pioneer Group out of Marietta for $2.4 million • Lincoln Electric out of Cleveland for $2.9 million.

Meanwhile a Columbus law firm specializing in eminent domain cases, Goldman & Braunstein, has gained 200 clients whose property will be affected by the ET Rover Pipeline.

The law firm has been hosting free informational meetings for over a year for landowners who were told the pipeline would be coming through their property.

Michael Braunstein, partner of the firm, said at this point most of his clients understand that a fight against the pipeline coming through their property would be fruitless, given that the federal law gives the company the rights to access to natural gas. He focuses on negotiating fair easement contracts and future land use agreements for a mostly agricultural landowner clientele. “(ET Rover) has the power under congressional statute that they have the right to take the land for natural gas, but we can mitigate the consequences they will receive as a result,” he said.

Although ET Rover has announced spending $90 million on easement contracts with Ohio landowners, Braunstein said landowners are not being offered fair contracts.

“I have seen them offer people $30 a foot for the two lines. In terms of what is should be, it should be multiples of that,” Braunstein said.

Information on the ET Rover pipeline project can be found on the Rover Pipeline website, RoverPipelineFacts. com or by calling the project’s toll-free number on the FERC website at http://www.ferc.gov/, docket No. CP15-93000. @CShar_AR on Twitter

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irst Energy is making serious strides to improve their technology in service reliability. According to the Bricker & Eckler’s “Shale Economical Development Overview,” the company is investing $4.2 billion in an transmission initiative called “Energizing the Future.”

The main goal of the company is to enhance service reliability by using remotely-controlled smart technology.

Doug Colafella works in the communications department at First Energy in Cleveland and helped break down the initiative a little bit.

“It’s really a five-year plan that we actually launched a couple of years ago,” Colafella announced. “We have already put in well over a billion dollars into the plan and we want to really upgrade and modernize our electric transmission system. It all started when there were a number of public plants that were shutting down along Lake Erie. Many were facing environmental regulations and we spent a lot of time looking at various solutions that would strengthen the entire system all along Northeast Ohio.”

Approximately $1.2 billion has already been invested relating to the old power plant closures. New facilities, including a high-voltage substation and transmission lines, have been put into place. Multiple projects involving the building of new plants have already been put into place including the Bruce Mansfield-Glenwillow project. This is a 119-mile, $190 million transmission project that extended from Beaver County, Pennsylvania to the Cleveland suburb of Glenwillow.

“We want to rebuild existing transmission lines,” Colafella said. “The average facility was about 40 years old and in some cases, it is getting difficult to find parts to repair those

older systems.”

Another goal the initiative is trying to accomplish is the prevention and quicker response to power outages. The remote-controlled smart technology plays a key role in making this happen, according to Colafella.

“There are tons of advanced switches that can be operated remotely to prevent power outages and reduce the number of people affected,” Colafella stated. These switches can detect where the outage occurred and isolate the customers that are around it. For example, if a tree falls on a power line, we can detect the area and help the people in that area maintain power and correct the situation.”

A third factor that the initiative hopes to achieve is increase First Energy’s load serving capability in areas where future growth is anticipated. Ohio’s shale gas regions serves as the primary source.

“We have seen a vast increase in activity related to shale gas,” Colafella said. “It is actually one of the highlights of key growth and improvement overall. It’s one of the bright spots in our economy.”

The shale gas industry has been responsible for creating many new jobs all throughout Ohio and First Energy is committed to keeping the shale gas industry going in the right direction.

Colafella says the First Energy has done a great job so far with the initiative, although much more work is still in the future. The timetable for the completion of the initiative is set for 2019.

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n June 18, 2015, the Supreme Court of Ohio issued an important decision in the case Dodd v. Croskey, Slip Opinion No. 2015-Ohio-2362, holding that under the 2006 version of the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act (“2006 DMA”), the filing of a claim to preserve a mineral interest by a mineral interest holder prevents the mineral interest from being deemed abandoned if the claim to preserve is filed within 60 days after of notice of the surface owner’s intent to declare those mineral interests abandoned.

The facts in Dodd are as follows. In August 2009, Phillip Dodd and July Bologna were conveyed the surface estate of a tract of land in Harrison County (“the Property”). Their vesting deed indicated the mineral estate had been severed in prior conveyances in the chain of title. On November 27, 2010, Mr. Dodd and Ms. Bologna published a notice of abandonment of the mineral interest underlying the Property.

Two days later, John William Croskey recorded a quitclaim deed conveying the mineral interest underlying the Property, and on December 23, 2010 (27 days after the notice of abandonment), John William Croskey filed and recorded an “Affidavit Preserving Minerals” reporting the mineral chain of title underlying the Property and stating the mineral owners intended to preserve their mineral interests in the Property.

Thereafter, Mr. Dodd and Ms. Bologna filed a declaratory judgment action to quiet title to the mineral estate against Croskey and the other identified mineral interest owners.

The Dodd Court noted in its ruling that there are two separate functions of a claim to preserve a mineral interest filed under the 2006 DMA. The first is as a savings event if recorded sometime within the 20 years prior to the filing of the notice of abandonment by the surface owner (R.C. 5301.56 (B)(3)(e)), and the second is to prevent the mineral interest from being deemed abandoned if filed within 60 days after service of the surface owner’s notice of abandonment (R.C. 5301.56(H)(1)(a)). Therefore, the Court held that under the 2006 DMA, even if a savings event has not occurred within the 20 years prior to the service of notice of abandonment by a surface owner, a mineral interest owner

may still prevent the abandonment of the mineral interest by filing a claim to preserve within 60 days after the filing of the notice of abandonment by the surface owner.

Dodd, while significant, is a narrow decision affecting only the 2006 DMA, and not affecting the prior 1989 version of the DMA. Further, for Dodd to apply the mineral interest owner must file his or her claim to preserve within 60 days after the notice of abandonment by the surface owner has been served in order to preserve the mineral interest.

There several other noteworthy Ohio Dormant Mineral Act cases, concerning both the 1989 and 2006 versions, still pending before the Supreme Court. In Chesapeake v. Buell the Court is being asked to determine whether (1) a recorded lease is a title transaction and (2) whether the expiration of a recorded lease and the reversion of the rights granted under that lease is a title transaction that restarts the 20year forfeiture clock; Corbin v. Chesapeake, LLC concerns whether the 2006 or 1989 DMA applies to claims asserted after 2006 but alleging the rights to oil and gas automatically vested in the surface prior to the 2006 and (2) whether payments of delay rentals during the primary term of an oil and gas lease is a title transaction and therefore a “savings event” under the DMA; in Walker v. Noon, the Court will decide whether surface owners can bring claims under the 1989 DMA subsequent to the 2006 amendment of the DMA; and Eisenbarth v. Reiser concerns whether the 1989 DMA contains a “static” or “rolling” 20 year look-back period to seek abandonment of the severed mineral interest.

Now more than ever, it is vital for Ohio oil and gas attorneys to understand the intricacies and differences between the 1989 and 2006 versions of the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act, including under which version of the DMA an action to restore the minerals to the surface owner should be filed.

Surface owners should only seek counsel from experienced oil and gas attorneys who are knowledgeable and up to date on the current changes in Ohio’s oil and gas law.

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EW YORK (AP) — A partnership run by Marathon Petroleum will spend $14.69 billion to buy MarkWest Energy Partners, a company that splits natural gas into other fuels. The company announced the buyout July 13.

The combined company will have a market capitalization of $21 billion and tie up Marathon’s huge pipeline network with the refiner.

The cash-and-stock deal values MarkWest units at $78.64 each. The companies said the purchase includes $4.2 billion in debt held by MarkWest. The companies value the deal at $20 billion and expect it to be completed during the fourth quarter.

Denver’s MarkWest will become a unit of MPLX LP, a midstream partnership created by Marathon Petroleum.

MarkWest is among the biggest natural gas processors in the U.S. and has major operations in and around Texas.

But it’s also active in major shale plays line Marcellus in the Northeast and Utica on its western border.

Common units of MarkWest closed at $59.75 on Friday,

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Since MPLX and MarkWest are both master limited partnerships, the deal creates one of the largest master limited partnerships in the world. Companies in the oil and gas sector often create those partnerships because they provide the tax benefits of a limited partnership and the liquidity of a publicly traded company.

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The non-profit educational outreach organization has been conducting them since 1999.

But much of the material is new, having been updated over the last couple of years; and other resources, such as careeroriented videos, are being developed, according to Mark Bruce, OOGEEP communications director.

One teacher at a recent summer workshop — the primary means of getting oil and gas and STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) curriculum into the hands of elementary through high school teachers statewide — told Bruce, “This is all new stuff. That keeps me active and engaged.”

Summer workshops attract teachers ranging from one who has taught science for about five decades to new instructors one or two years into their career, said Bruce. “One or two are back because we have new curriculum.”

By the end of the summer of 2015, about 80 teachers will have attended either the workshop held this year in Marietta or in Youngstown.

“These workshops are so valuable because we give the teachers the tools and the background to take our curriculum to the classroom,” Bruce said.

Just as in the classroom, the workshops aren’t merely information-based.

After the background from geological formation to seismic testing, for example, is provided, “then we let the teachers do it,” Bruce said, as they move from station to station to take part in hands-on experimentation.

“Everyone does the experiments,” he said, and because they are teachers, participants often give each other tips on how to maintain student interest.

Workshop attendees present the experiments they conduct to the others, Bruce said. “Teachers teach the teachers.”

Curriculum is developed by OOGEEP with teachers as consultants, he said. “It makes sense to teachers, so it makes sense to students.”

“At the end of the day, they have more than a dozen experiments they can take into their classrooms,” Bruce said of the workshops, adding, “They’re all hands-on. That’s what science is about.”

“That’s why students love science — because you do things.”

While teachers can earn continuing education credits for being part of OOGEEP workshops, “the students are the ones who are going to benefit,” he said.

“They’re learning about something that is happening where

they live,” he said, referring to the state’s oil and gas fields, but “they’re going to learn science, too,” including principles of geology, physics, chemistry and other subjects.

The curriculum has “a lot of STEM in it,” Bruce said, “because that’s crucial. But it is for all science teachers,” some of whom teach STEM exclusively and some of whom cover a more broad variety of topics.

Either way, “the curriculum fits,” he said.

It is available online and includes activities, assessments and “digital extras.”

A significant addition to the OOGEEP curriculum is a focus on careers.

“Career education is becoming part of the required curriculum in schools,” Bruce said. “We’re doing everything we can to help teachers in that area.”

“We’ve identified 75 careers in Ohio that you can get in oil and gas,” he said, ranging across a continuum from diesel mechanic, welder and CDL truck driver to petroleum engineer,

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Beyond that resource is a guide for “where you can go to get training.”

For example, The College of Wooster offers a geology degree. The Wayne County Schools Career Center lists courses for diesel mechanic, lease operator (well tender/pumper), maintenance or mechanical technician and welder helper.

Because it will be a mobile resource, students will even be able to access it from their phones.

OOGEEP has sent the information to every guidance counselor in Ohio, Bruce said.

Additionally, “We’re trying to develop a video series to go with the careers, describing what you do in those jobs ... and what kinds of skills and training you need.”

OOGEEP provides speakers nicknamed Petro Pros to make classroom presentations building on what teachers have taught their students using workshop materials, although

workshop attendance is not necessary in order to schedule a speaker, Bruce said. “(Speakers) intertwine (presentations) with science lessons during the (school) year.”

The organization gets involved in science fairs as well — helping students come up with oil and gas-related topics, assisting with judging at the state science fair and offering its own award category.

A June 24, 2015 OOGEEP statement quoted Greg Mason, exploration and production manager for the Energy Cooperative and one of OOGEEP’s State Science Day judges, as saying, “Science education is crucial for the future of all industries, especially ours.”

“To see these students use their scientific knowledge and then tackle some complex and relevant topics encourages me.

I hope they serve as an inspiration to other students in their schools,” Mason said.

Reporter Linda Hall can be reached at 330-264-1125, Ext. 2230, or lhall@the-daily-record.com. She is @lindahallTDR on Twitter.

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EXFORD, Pa -- The Pennsylvania Independent Oil and Gas Association released a statement arguing that Governor Tom Wolf’s budget veto had nothing to do with adequate education funding.

“It is unfortunate that the governor has made a severance tax on natural gas production his primary line the sand in the debate over the budget,” Louis D. D’Amico, president and executive director of PIOGA, said in an email statement.

“The Commonwealth doesn’t tax something to spur its growth,” he continued. “The severance tax would be no different. Why not place an excise tax on Gov. Wolf’s former cabinet making business to help fund education? If the governor opposed that idea because of its negative effect on the sale of cabinets, would he be against education and children? Of course not, but that’s what he says about severance tax opponents.”

D’Amico called the governor’s argument against those not supporting the tax “disingenuous” and countered Wolf’s claims that Pennsylvania is the only state without a tax on drillers.

“We do have one — but it’s called an ‘impact fee’ instead of a ‘severance tax,’” he stated. “PIOGA would not oppose legislation to rename it what it is...a tax.”

While PIOGA supports better funding for education, D’Amico argued that it doesn’t make sense for it to be linked to the gas and oil industry.

“PIOGA believes adequate funding for the education of Pennsylvania’s children is an extremely important issue, but it is not connected in any way to a severance tax, any more than it would be connected to a new excise tax on cabinets or any other particular business or industry,” he explained. “The only link is the one Wolf’s campaign dreamed up and repeated over the past 18 months.”

Instead, D’Amico contended that drillers are “already paying more then their fair share” through “the jobs and general state taxes our industry and its supply chain businesses provide for education” in addition pay a special impact tax and other business taxes.

“If the current general state tax structure that provides edu-

cation funding uses does not require companies to pay their fair share, then no business is paying its fair share,” he added.

“Another new, special tax on one industry is not ‘fair’ by any rational measure.”

D’Amico also noted that PIOGA and other industry members support teachers and others in the education field by helping to prepare students with careers in the energy sector.

Finally, he explained that with Pennsylvania expected to see a 45 percent drop in unconventional wells drilled in 2015, adding another tax on the gas and oil industry is poor for business.

“A businessman would realize this is the worst time to put another tax on our industry,” D’Amico stated. “But a politician insistent on fulfilling a campaign promise that never made any sense would not realize this.”

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e celebrated America over the Fourth of July weekend, and it looks like the celebrations are set to continue: manufacturing will soon be cheaper in the United States than in China – thanks to fracking.

Recently, the Boston Consulting Group found that average costs of manufacturing goods in the United States are currently only 5 percent higher than in China. It projects that by 2018, costs will be 2 to 3 percent lower in the U.S. than in China. Remember, China has long been described as the “manufacturing powerhouse,” or “manufacturing’s shining star,” or “the world’s factory floor.”

But as a Fortune article explains: “‘Made in the U.S.A.’ is becoming more affordable. The reason? Fracking.”

It goes on to state: “But perhaps the single largest factor is that fracking has helped dramatically drive down the price of oil and gas that’s being used in energy intensive industries such as steel, aluminum, paper and petrochemicals. BCG calculates that U.S. industrial electricity prices are now 30% to 50% lower than those of other major exporters.”

As Energy In Depth has written before, the shale revolution, by unlocking heretofore inaccessible oil and gas

resources and heralding a new era of energy abundance, has driven down energy costs considerably for businesses and consumers. For the manufacturing sector, especially for energy-intensive industries such as plastics, fertilizers, chemicals, and steel, energy costs could very well determine where projects get developed.

President Obama has long credited shale development for driving down energy costs and spurring, in turn, a manufacturing renaissance in the United States that is creating jobs and growing our economy. As he said last November: “When I travel to Asia or I travel to Europe, their biggest envy is the American, homegrown, U.S. energy production that is producing jobs and attracting manufacturing because locating here means you’ve got lower energy costs.”

President Obama’s remarks echo many a report illustrating the sheer significance of shale to American manufacturing. In a report titled “Shale Gas: A Game-Changer for U.S. Manufacturing,” University of Michigan professors wrote: “Managed properly, the availability of low-cost shale gas could catalyze a renaissance in U.S. manufacturing, revitalizing the chemical industry and enhancing the global competitiveness of energy-intensive manufacturing sectorssuch as aluminum, steel, paper, glass, and food. Lower feedstock

and energy costs could help U.S. manufacturers reduce natural gas expenses by as much as $12 billion annually through 2025, creating one million new manufacturing jobs.”

Similarly, a MIT Technology Review article, “Shale Gas Will Fuel a U.S. Manufacturing Boom,” explained: “The plummeting price of natural gas—which can be used to make a vast number of products, including tires, carpet, antifreeze, lubricants, cloth, and many types of plastic—is luring key industries to the United States. Just five years ago, natural-gas prices were so high that some chemical manufacturers were shutting down U.S. operations. Now the ability to access natural gas trapped in shale rock formations, using technologies such as hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, has lowered American prices to a fraction of those in other countries.”

A report released by accounting firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers spotlighted the impact of shale gas on U.S. manufacturing: “Shale gas activity in the US has taken root in the last several years, and its effects on the country’s energy mix and energy independence have progressed beyond prognostication and shaped new realities. The ‘shale effect’ on manufacturing, too, is taking shape—making the US a more attractive locale due to relatively low energy and feedstock

costs.”

In a speech earlier this year, President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers Jay Timmons highlighted how affordable energy is “driving manufacturing’s resurgence”: “Now, let’s take a look at energy, because the time is right—energy that fuels our success as manufacturers and as a country. This is a moment of great opportunity.America has an unprecedented and incredible global advantage in reliable and affordable energy, and it’s driving manufacturing’s resurgence.”

Vice President Biden has also acknowledged the role that lower energy costs have been playing in propelling U.S. manufacturing: “And now there’s an energy boom. You all know about the Marcellus Shale — I think you heard of that, right?

There’s an energy boom that’s changed the paradigm of manufacturing. It’s cheaper to manufacture in the United States than it is in Europe and/or in Asia.”

As we see more and more “Made in America” labels pop up in stores, we can thank the men and women of the oil and gas industry for developing homegrown, all-American energy, and for bringing offshore manufacturing back onto American soil.

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ANESVILLE — Since its inception in 1969, Muskingum Area Technical College has evolved into a nationally acclaimed institution of higher learning. In 2000, its name was changed to Zane State, and by 2005, the college offered associate degrees in 25 different programs and certificates in 20.

Today, Zane State is a stepping stone to a four-year university or college degree.

And it serves its purpose well.

There are no plans to change or expand on the “home base,” said Dr. Chad Brown, who became the sixth president of Zane State College July 1, 2015. Brown has been employed at the college since 2005, most recently as provost and executive vice president.

Throughout Brown’s career at the college, commitment to student success has been a priority.

“We went from offering technical programs only, to offering transfer programs to many four-year institutions, established through partnerships,” he said. “We offer students a low-cost, community-based quality education supported by

42 associate degree programs, certificates, workshops and occupational skills. There are no plans to expand to a fouryear college.”

Brown said in his first year as president he will focus on setting a direction for the college ... “by creating an affordable pathway to a bachelor’s degree. I want to prepare students for a career, not a job. Businesses need to get involved.

We need to continue to build partnerships with business to better prepare our students for future opportunities.

“We all know, of course, that not everyone will go on to a four-year college or university. But we want to make it easier and more affordable if they so desire.”

Information from Nick Welch, Zane State’s director of communications, stated that Franklin University offers classes on both Zane State campuses (Zanesville and Cambridge), which typically amounts to one year, leaving students one year of classes to be taken online or at Franklin.

The Franklin 3+1 program allows Zane State students to complete their associate degree, plus an additional year of Franklin classes at Zane State that all count toward a bach-

elor’s degree from Franklin.

Earlier this month, as reported in The Daily Jeffersonian, Zane State .and Muskingum University signed a new agreement — the Muskingum University Transfer Student Scholarship — a $2,500 scholarship to an unlimited number of students who meet the criteria. That amount is in addition to yearly scholarships offered by Muskingum, from $4,000 to $12,500, according to the student’s grade point average,” said Welch.

“This is part of creating an affordable pathway from Zane State to a four-year degree ... with the cost approximate to one year at OSU,” said Brown.

“I also want to pay more attention to the non-traditional students, unemployed adults who have the ability but are not in the right circumstances to afford a college education.

We need to show them that education can be the link to a better job or career.”

Brown said the biggest growth in programs are related to science, health, oil and gas and welding. And, although they are growing, “we have the capacity for more students.”

The majority of degrees awarded by Zane State are in the STEMM field — science, technology, engineering, math and medicine.

“One way to help traditional students, those graduating from high school, is to connect with them while they are still in elementary school,” he said. “The college experience is challenging, especially for students who have not been exposed to what a formal education can offer, or do not have parents who have explained to them the value of a college education.”

Interest in the college’s Oil and Gas Engineering Technology program, initiated in the 2011-2012 academic year, exceeded expectations, but applications for the program in the past year has died down. Although more than 150 students have enrolled in the program, only 30 graduated with an associate degree.

This is due, in part, said Brown, to the lure of a good-paying job in the industry.

“Many students were recruited by energy companies after completing half (or less) of their studies. They learned the basics and were hired for on-the-job training, ignoring the message that the more desirable apprenticeships in more desirable conditions, require more education.”

But, with the slowdown in drilling and other operations related to the oil and gas industry, Brown said this is a perfect time to sign up for school.

“The ‘slowdown’ in the industry benefits us [Zane State] ... Right now is the time to be getting ready for the next call for employment requiring a minimum of an associate degree. Classes start in August at both campuses.”

Students who earn an associate degree from Zane State in petroleum engineering, can now transfer to Muskingum University’s enhanced petroleum geology program to

work toward a Bachelor of Science degree.

Brown earned a Bachelor of Arts from Capital University, Master of Science from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from Ohio University.

He serves on the boards of Muskingum Family YMCA, Zanesville Museum of Arts and the Animal Shelter Society.

For more information about any of the programs offered at Zane State, call (740) 588-1224, or visit www.ZaneState. edu.

In 1969, Muskingum Area Technical College, the predecessor of Zane State College, opened in Zanesville. The institution first shared facilities with Muskingum Area Joint Vocational School, but in 1975, the college relocated to a 179-acre site, which it shared with Ohio University-Zanesville. MATC also offered classes at several off-campus locations. In 2004, almost 1,900 students enrolled at the institution, 63 percent of the students were women. In the early 2000s, Muskingum Area Technical College changed its name to Zane State College in recognition of its wide range of classes. In 2005, Zane State College offered associate degrees in 25 different programs, as well as certificates in 20 other areas. Today, the college averages 3,000 students per year who may choose from more than 42 programs.

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OLUMBUS — After two years of debating, developing, and decision-making, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management, began implementing new rules regulating construction of horizontal well pad sites in Ohio, effective July 16, 2015 with a five year review in 2020.

This rule applies to a well site where drilling of one or more horizontal wells and associated production operations are planned, in addition to compliance of state and federal law.

No construction on a site shall begin before a permit is issued by the chief of the division of gas and oil resources management, current Chief is Rick Simmers, or the chief’s designee.

While re-examination of current laws and regulations is sometimes necessary to keep up with the technological evolution of any industry, the current unfavorable phase of the business cycle the gas and oil industry is experiencing, is the industry’s opinion, is the worst possible time to promulgate additional regulations that could increase construction costs by 10 or 15 percent.

Shawn Bennett, senior vice president of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, said,

for a proposed well site shall be developed, signed and sealed by a professional engineer with detailed drawings and shall include the name of applicant, emergency contact information, name of the proposed well pad, county, township a d section or lot number where well site will be located, coordinates of the entrance intersection of the access road. In addition to soil types, vicinity of other wells, either producing or plugged, boundaries of land parcels, occupied and unoccupied structures, existing utilities, surface and underground mines, all springs, wetlands, streams, lakes, rivers, ponds, creeks and water wells within 100 feet of the proposed site.

Engineering staff from the division will inspect sites during each stage of construction to ensure compliance with the new standards.

The Horizontal Well Site Construction Application and other forms referenced in the rule are available at the ODNR Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management website.

“The new well pad rules are the culmination of many months of conversations between the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, industry and other non-profits.

Though the ODNR addressed some of industry’s key concerns, a few major points of contention were left unaddressed, which will lead to delays and unnecessary costs on already expensive wells.”

The final draft of 1501:9-2-02, also notes that the standards referenced in this rule may be found under the Ohio Administrative Code Rule 1501:9-12-01.

There are 10 main sections of the new regulations: A: permit and document requirements, B: Application, C: Well plan sites, D: Completeness review, E: Site review, F: Review procedures, G: Construction, H: Modification of application, I: Certification and J: Well site transfer.

Each section has numerous sub sections and sub-sub sections.

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OOSTER, OH -- Survey crews from the NEXUS natural gas pipeline project visiting Wayne County in July were not accompanied by offduty deputies as has been done elsewhere.

Capt. Doug Hunter became aware of NEXUS using offduty law enforcement officers in other counties, and, to him, it felt like a strong-arm tactic. So, he talked with Sheriff Travis Hutchinson about the issue.

"We're not private security guards," Hutchinson said.

"Our function as a law enforcement agency is to provide the best service to the citizens of Wayne County. I don't want citizens feeling like they are being bullied or pressured."

"It felt like in some cases, law enforcement was being used for personal gain," Hunter said. "If a deputy is there, it probably makes it more difficult for the property owner to say no."

A NEXUS representative recently reached out to Hutchinson informing the sheriff survey crews would be coming to the area.

"NEXUS has and will continue to notify landowners, local officials and law enforcement in advance of its plans to conduct necessary surveys," Arthur Diestel, NEXUS manager of stakeholder outreach, said in an email. "For their safety and security, NEXUS employs off-duty police officers at its own expense to accompany its survey crews. If a landowner denies access, NEXUS will fully and immediately comply with the landowner's request and vacate the premises."

"NEXUS has been very cooperative," Hutchinson said.

"They're not looking to be a bad neighbor, and I'm appreciative of that.

"I'm not trying to get in the way of anyone doing their job, but NEXUS is not going to use the Sheriff's Office as

a leverage point for residents into making a decision they don't have to."

Surveys are necessary to obtain field data to assess pipeline alignments for constructability and environmental impacts and to address individual landowner concerns, Diestel said. These surveys are necessary to obtain important information for the federal and state agencies that are reviewing the environmental impacts of the project.

"If you do not wish for NEXUS survey crews to be on your property, simply ask them to leave. If they do not do so, contact our office," Hutchinson said. "As always, our goals are to protect the rights of the citizens of Wayne County, and we will not allow our deputies to be used by private industry to intimidate those we are sworn to serve."

Diestel pointed out residents who provide access to the property to conduct these necessary surveys are not giving up any property rights, and they are not authorizing NEXUS to build on the property.

"NEXUS is still years away from the start of construction and does not anticipate filing a certificate application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission until late 2015," Diestel said.

Spectra Energy and DTE Energy are the lead developers of the pipeline. The line will come up from Kensington and travel north to meet up with a pipeline in Michigan and eventually make its way to Ontario, Canada. The 36-inch line will be capable of moving 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day and will not exceed a pressure of 1,440 pounds per square inch. It will cut through a portion of Chippewa Township.

Reporter Bobby Warren can be reached at 330-287-1639 or bwarren@the-daily-record.com. He is @BobbyWarrenTDR on Twitter.

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The 77 acre site is approximately one-half mile east of Ohio 9 and 2.5 miles north of Carrollton, adjacent to Carroll County Community Improvement Corporation land that is designated for industrial and commercial development.

Construction crews have begun excavating land for the longawaited electric generation facility that will provide power to approximately 750,000 homes. Carroll County Energy filed a Letter of Notification with the Ohio Power Siting Board for the construction of an electrical interconnection in July of 2013.

The $899 million, state-of-the-art, natural gas powered plant will generate 700 megawatts, which are expected to increase as 6,300 megawatts of conventional coal-fired generation in Ohio goes into retirement this year.

The facility will be a significant stimulus for the economy of Carroll County and surrounding communities creating

between more than 500 construction jobs. When complete the plant will employ 21 full-time workers. Carrollton Exempted Village Schools will receive $1.3 million per year for the next 30 years from Carroll County Energy, in return for tax abatements.

Additionally, the facility represents an important step forward in America’s transition to cleaner energy production while helping to move America towards energy independence.

The facility will employ new state-of-the-art General Electric natural gas and steam turbine technology in a configuration known as “combined-cycle.” The facility is described as “efficient generation from a small footprint,” which is important in terms of providing for future energy needs with minimal environmental impact. The project is expected start commercial operations in December of 2017.

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