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Table of Contents DECEMBER 2017

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A Look Ahead Gas & Oil Events

DECEMBER 2017

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Gas & Oil: Fuel For Business Growth

ADVER TISING

Bill Albrecht

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Anti-Fracking Measure Fails

EXECUTIVE EDITORS

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Rex Energy Keeps Drilling Carroll County

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Shale Goal in Sight Pump With a Profit, Without Hurting Growth

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U.S. Oil & Gas ‘Resurgence’ Expected as Demand Grows

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Event Speaker Points to Renaissance Along Oil ‘Corridor’

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Ohio Well Activity

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Horizontal Drilling Activity Graph

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Members of the International Union Of Operating Engineers, Local 18 — left to right, Mel Yates, Ron Krohn, Mike Cramer, Joe Casto and Mike Bertolone — pose outside OOGA Hosts Tech Expo the Pritchard-Laughlin Civic Center in Cambridge where the Industry Development Fuels Business Growth Ohio Oil and Gas Association hosted an industry tech expo in November. The attendance for the event, as well as the “Ohio Gas & Oil” is a monthly publication. overall enthusiasm, was up over the last few years Copyright 2017. as the industry settles into the new normal.

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Fuel For Business Growth Shane Hoover • GateHouse Ohio Media

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rom drilling to cheap energy to petrochemicals, oil When Chesapeake Energy, a pioneer of Utica Shale drilling, and gas development can be an economic engine. planted in Stark County, other companies, big and small, scrambled here for a piece of the action. Some of those Canton didn’t have a grand plan to become Ohio’s companies are still here, others have moved on.

Utica Capital.

“Some good things have happened in this area, some Sure, local leaders cooked up the name and logo, but that was development has occurred,” said David Kaminski, vice after the oil and gas industry had its sights on the energy-rich president for public policy and energy at the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce. “But it’s, I don’t mean to say this in Utica Shale beneath eastern Ohio a bad way, it’s almost as if this happened by accident because people decided they wanted to be here, not because we had the talent or the resources to figure out how to attract them here.”

It leaves him to wonder, what would happen if Stark County could recruit businesses from Texas or Oklahoma?

Something To Grow The “Strengthening Stark” report said Stark should take advantage of growth in the oil and gas industry, and host more businesses that need cheap energy or make plastics and chemicals from natural gas.

The resource is here, as are dozens of companies with some tie to the industry. Natural gas production in the eastern United States, mostly in Appalachia, is expected to more than double in the next 35 years, to 45 billion cubic feet per day, and account for 40 percent of national production, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The question is, will this part of the country, including Stark County, keep shipping its valuable resource away through pipelines, or use it to build local industry?

Local Jobs There aren’t many core shale-related jobs in the county.

Michael Mast, service technician, works on a gear box rebuild at Cage Gear and Machine in Canton. An increase in the regional oil and gas industry could help business for the Canton company.

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According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, the number of workers in oil and gas extraction, pipeline construction and support companies climbed from about 200 in 2010 to almost 700 in 2015, about 5 percent of the statewide total. The number was cut in half the following year after oil prices cratered and drilling slowed.

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By comparison, 900 worked locally Chesapeake set up its earliest operations for the federal government in 2015, in Canton and later moved them to according to data compiled by the state. Louisville. G.E. Oil and Gas opened in the Mills Business Park and Baker But those core oil and gas jobs pay Hughes and E-Tank built facilities in better, with an average weekly wage of Massillon. $1,350 in 2015, higher than many other sectors, including financial services, Engineers, law firms, surveyors and manufacturing and government jobs. other support companies moved to the area, too.

Industry History Kaminski said there was a time in 2011 Oil and natural gas development in when it was common for two or three Stark County goes back decades. Canton people to arrive at his office in a single has been home to a refinery, now owned day, looking for warehouse space and

by Marathon Petroleum Corp., since equipment yards.

1931, and a large underground natural gas storage field sits beneath Jackson “They would pull up to the front door Township. More than 3,000 active wells in their rental car from the airport and dot the county, according to the Ohio walk in and say, ‘What can you show Department of Natural Resources. me?’” he said.

sweet spot, rigs moved south and east toward gas-rich counties on the Ohio River. Then oil and natural gas prices crashed, slowing drillers around the country. The number of Utica rigs in Ohio plummeted from almost 60 in December 2014 to nine in May 2016. The count last week showed 23 rigs.

The most recent local activity has involved transporting and refining.

Marathon built its Cornerstone Pipeline to bring Utica Shale liquids to its Canton Refinery and merged its midstream business with MarkWest Energy Partners in a $14.7 billion deal that included natural gas processing plants in Ohio.

Kinder Morgan built the $540 million Utopia Pipeline through Stark County to carry ethane to Canada.

The industry got a boost early in the Drilling Shift decade when drillers came to Ohio to tap the Utica and Marcellus shales.

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has spent $100 million to buy and inspect a site for its own multi-billiondollar cracker.

Petrochemical Power A study by the American Chemistry Council explored what would happen if five ethane crackers, 500 miles of pipeline and underground storage facilities for ethane, propane and other chemicals were built along the Ohio River between Monaca and Catlettsburg, Ky.

Cage Gear & Machine in Canton manufactures custom gears and does repairs. A recent study projected the gas and oil industry could create almost 69,000 direct and supplychain jobs with $4.7 billion in wages, plus billions of dollars in federal, state and local taxes by 2025 in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. billion Rover Pipeline, an interstate natural gas pipeline, and is about to begin on the $2.1 billion NEXUS Gas Transmission pipeline. Both will transport shale gas to Michigan, Canada and beyond.

Beyond Wells Stark County sits at the intersection of eastern Ohio’s oil and gas patch and northern Ohio’s traditional manufacturing economy, said Paul Boulier, a petrochemicals expert with the regional economic development group Team NEO.

Boulier said he didn’t know if the number of plants assumed by the study were correct, but global demand for ethane, propane and butane that can be chemicals and plastics is growing. turned into chemicals and plastics.

Sare Plastics in Lexington Township Right now, those liquids leave the uses resins made from natural gas to region by pipeline for Canada or the make a range of plastic items. Most of Gulf Coast where they are processed its work is for automotive industry. and sent back to factories in Ohio. But a project proposed on the banks of the Bart and Mary Ann Stuchell bought the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania company in 2005. Back then, materials could change the dynamic. accounted for 35 to 37 percent of the cost of sales. Today, the material cost runs 47 Shell Chemical Appalachia plans to to 50 percent. build a $6 billion cracker plant that will turn ethane into ethylene, a chemical But Bart Stuchell said he expected resin needed for making a common type of costs to become the lowest in the world plastic. in the next five to 10 years, maybe sooner, if the resin was made nearby.

“The reason they did that is they wanted to get proximity to customers,” Boulier Lower prices would give his and similar said. companies a global advantage.

“Right now we’re exporting a tremendous amount of value out of the region,” Boulier said at a recent conference. “What I’d like to do is try to have this region benefit from that and Two-thirds of the resin used in the create wealth and jobs going forward.” United States to make plastic products is consumed within 500 miles of the Manufacturers can use electricity Appalachian region, according to the generated by gas-burning power plants American Chemistry Council. and can tap into cheaper fuel to run their factories. And they have an abundant Eighty miles downriver from Monaca in source of natural-gas liquids such as Belmont County, PTT Global Chemical

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The study projected the industry could create almost 69,000 direct and supply-chain jobs with $4.7 billion in wages, plus billions of dollars in federal, state and local taxes by 2025 in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky.

“They should be able to compete anywhere in the world now,” Stuchell said.

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Anti-Fracking Measure Fails Jackie Stewart • Energy In Depth-Ohio

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or the fifth year in a row, Ohio voters rejected a Pennsylvaniabased Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s (CELDF) antifracking local ballot measure on Election Day. As the Toledo Blade reported, Ohio’s only local ballot measure this year, the Bowling Green Community Rights Charter Amendment —which was designed to block a pipeline route — wasn’t even close, with 61 percent of voters rejecting it. Bowling Green represents CELDF’s 29th loss out of 34 attempts to pass local measures in the Buckeye State since 2012.

CELDF’s numerous attempts to get these ballot measures passed have repeatedly placed significant financial burdens on the communities the group has targeted.

For instance, CELDF’s efforts in Youngstown have cost taxpayers more than $187,000.

Despite these groups’ best efforts, these ballot measures have continued to fail. CELDF’s has suffered numerous legal setbacks as well, with courts ruling that the local ballot language is preempted by state law. The Ohio Supreme Court weighed in on several occasions. Pages 14 and 17 list of all the failures that the campaigns have had over the years.

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Shane Hoover • GateHouse Ohio Media ompany expects 10 new Utica Shale wells to Tom Stabley, Rex president and chief executive, during a begin production next year. conference call with investors Wednesday.

Rex Energy is working on 10 new Utica Shale wells in Carroll County that will begin producing next year.

The company has drilled three wells on its Jenkins pad in Washington Township and plans to start production in January. Each well has an average lateral length of 6,500 feet.

The company has three wells already producing in the area. Those wells will be shutdown while workers frack the three new wells with an improved technique, said

Rex also is drilling the fifth of seven wells on its Goebeler pad in Harrison Township. Those wells have an average lateral length of 7,500 feet and should start producing during the second quarter of 2018.

Rex Energy is based in State College, Pa., and has 30 producing Utica wells in Ohio, according to the state Department of Natural Resources.

In a press release, Rex said it expected the new Carroll wells to increase the company’s production of condensate, a light liquid commonly used for making gasoline.

During the third quarter, Rex produced 182 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day, with liquids accounting for 38 percent of production.

The company’s commodity revenue increased 29 percent over the same quarter last year to $46.6 million, but Rex ended the quarter in the red.

The driller lost $47.1 million or $4.76 per share, compared with a profit of $4.8 million during the same quarter a year ago.

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The International Energy Agency acknowledged the U.S. boom’s resilience on Nov. 14, predicting shale will be dominant in global markets for at least the next decade.

In third-quarter earnings reports, explorers including Pioneer Natural Resources Co., EOG Resources Inc. and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. said they’re on the cusp of shrinking or even eliminating the gap between operating expenses and the cash they take in. That would mark a turning point for an industry that’s piled up losses and lived on borrowed money for years, as drillers If earnings forecasts are right, that dominance will come plowed resources into developing new oil plays across with a helping of fiscal discipline. Companies promised the U.S. Story continued on page 10

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to heed investor calls for a hardened focus on dividends, It helps that producers have the wind of an oil rally at buybacks and boosting stock prices. their backs. Brent crude prices rose 11 percent above the same period in 2016, settling in above $52 a barrel.

To hear shale executives talk this earnings season “was Company revenues jumped and explorers across the to hear actors auditioning for the same part, reading the board beat analyst expectations for sales and profits. same lines from the same script,” said Dan McSpirit, a BMO Capital Markets Corp. analyst, in a note to U.S. government data released on Wednesday shows U.S. clientsTuesday. “The story was about capital discipline crude inventories increased for a second week, while or growth within cash flow or some variation of it.” nationwide output jumped for four straight weeks to a fresh record-high.

Among the biggest shale-focused producers, free cash flow -- the money left after subtracting operating costs -- are expected to rise in the coming quarters, according to analyst estimates tracked by Bloomberg. Some companies said they’ll even make enough to cover growing dividends.

The new “balanced operating model is in contrast to the industry’s historical behavior of aggressively chasing top line growth at the ultimate expense of shareholders,” Dave Hager, chief executive officer at Oklahoma Citybased Devon Energy, told analysts on a Nov. 1 earnings call. “This is not a populist philosophy that we are paying lip service to. We are absolutely committed to doing business differently.”

Despite a more cautious outlook on spending, and the effects of a destructive hurricane season, drillers also said they plan to pump more oil and natural gas in the fourth quarter and beyond.

That could undercut an OPECled effort to cut global crude supplies that finally gained some traction in the third quarter.

Still, Tim Dove, the CEO at Pioneer -- one of the quintessential shale growth companies -- felt the need to reassure investors that profitability will remain paramount. “This is not just growth for growth’s sake,” Dove said on an analyst call, in reference to a 10 percent, quarter-on-quarter jump in Pioneer ’s oil output. “These growth numbers are really based on strong returns and high capital efficiency.”

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il will continue growing as a source of energy for over two decades, with the U.S. set to become the undisputed leader in crude and gas production, the International Energy Agency said on Nov. 14.

The report from the Paris-based agency will come as grim news for officials attending global climate talks in Bonn, Germany, as they grapple with ways to contain carbon emissions. Scientists just this week said that emissions of the heat-trapping gas rose this year after three years of not growing.

The IEA said oil production will be driven by continued growth in energy-hungry industries. Though solar power is set to become the cheapest source of new electricity generation and the boom years for coal are over, oil and gas will continue to meet the bulk of the world’s energy needs, the IEA said.

Oil demand is forecast to keep rising until 2040, with natural gas growing by a sharp 40 percent.

A more widespread use of electric cars will not be enough to consign oil to the past, said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol.

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Total energy demand is expected to have grown by 30 Environmental activists decried the IEA forecasts as percent by 2040 — and would be growing twice that discounting any efforts by countries to limit emissions as without efforts to improve energy efficiencies. part of the Paris Agreement on climate change.

The price of oil has risen over 30 percent since June to a two-year high of around $57 a barrel in New York trading amid evidence of stronger economic growth around the world.

“None of its core scenarios for the future of energy provide a reasonable chance that the world will avoid climate catastrophe,” said Adam Scott, senior advisor at Oil Change International.

But analysts expect the price to not rise much further in coming months as the U.S. ramps up production.

The IEA echoed that view, saying it expects the U.S. to see a resurgence in its oil and gas industries and become the world’s biggest net exporter by the end of the 2020s.

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he Ohio Oil and Gas Association hosted its seventh annual Technical Conference and Oilfield Expo on Nov. 2.

For the third year, the event was held in Cambridge at the Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center. With the industry slowly recovering from the downturn, the overall attendance, as well as enthusiasm, was up over the last few years as the industry settles into the new normal. The event hosted a wide array of attendees, exhibitors, and sponsors, all contributing its success.

The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 18 was the event’s premier sponsor and was a key driver to the overall success of the event.

Executive Vice President Shawn Bennett said.

“This year we had presentations from all aspects of our industry so there was something there for all of our members. We had a great turnout and can’t wait to be back next year.”

What really stole the show were the speaker presentations and panel discussions during the technical conference, providing in depth discussion on topics impacting the oil and gas industry.

Some of the various topics at the Technical Conference included comments from experts on emergency response and minimizing costs, to overviews of pieces of equipment such as reciprocating compressors and inpipe turbine generators. One of the key presentations was provided by Bryce Custer who is experienced in all aspects The evening before the technical of commercial real estate. conference presentations, the Association hosted a welcome reception Bryce spoke on the topic site selection held on the exhibit floor for everyone criteria for petrochemical and energy attending. This was well attended and service facilities. provided an opportunity for attendees to network, mingle, and visit the “We are beginning to see a renaissance exhibitor booths while enjoying hors along the Ohio River Corridor. Dormant d’oeuvres and drinks. steel factories, power plants and industrial sites are being remediated and “Our technical conference is about repurposed for the advent of industries sharing information to make our related to the shale gas industry,” said industry better and more efficient. It Bryce Custer, with NAI Spring. was truly a great event this year,” OOGA

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