Drilling negotiations discussed in Warren

WARREN — Negotiations between the Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley and an oil and gas driller could be completed "in a matter of days."

Bob Rea, president of ALOV, a nonprofit landowner advocacy group told a few hundred landowners tonight that negotiations are moving quickly.

ALOV is currently trying to lease about 80,000 acres of land in Trumbull County -- the largest single-county acreage plot in Ohio.

That number could grow depending on how many landowners join ALOV by the end of the night, the deadline set by ALOV for this round of negotiations.

ALOV will not disclose the bargaining driller because of competitive reasons.

The group has already helped a few thousand landowners lease more than 100,000 acres in Eastern Ohio.

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