ODNR approves new shale permit for Columbiana well

YOUNGSTOWN — Ohio Department of Natural Resources has issued a new permit for a Utica Shale well to Chesapeake Exploration LLC, a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp.

The permit is for a well in Columbiana County’s Middleton Township east of Vale Road just north of Carmel Achor Road.

The horizontal wells will extract resources by means of fracking, a process in which water, chemicals and sand are blasted into rocks thousands of feet below the ground to unlock natural gas and oil.

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