Landowner finds first horizontal gas and oil well in county ‘kind of neat’


January 6, 2013 at 4:51p.m.

Landowner finds first horizontal gas and oil well in county ‘kind of neat’

By ED RUNYAN

runyan@vindy.com

BURGHILL

Glenn Brugler says it’s “kind of neat” that his last name will be attached to Trumbull County’s first horizontal gas and oil well, but there is also a bit of sadness on another level.

Brugler, who owns a farm on Hayes-Orangeville Road, leased land about a mile away on Hayes-Orangeville that Halcon Resources is using for a drill pad.

Halcon brought a drill rig west, six miles west over the Pennsylvania line, to the wide-open lands of Hayes-Orangeville Road Dec. 22 to begin its Trumbull County drilling.

Only one other site in Trumbull County has a permit to extract oil and gas from the Utica shale underground, but that site — off of Warren-Sharon Road in Vienna Township — has not begun drilling operations. BP America has indicated it plans to begin drilling test wells in April.

“It’s kind of neat. It’s kind of like having your name on the sign at the end of the road,” Brugler said of the signage at the corner of Hayes-Orangeville and state Route 7 directing trucks to the well site. The printed signs call it the “Brugler well.”

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