Columbiana County tops Valley oil and gas production
YOUNGSTOWN
Columbiana County is the 2014 winner for Mahoning Valley oil and natural gas production.
The county produced 21.3 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 172,388 barrels of oil in four quarters last year, according to data released by the Ohio Department of Natural
Resources.
Columbiana County’s figures show a dramatic jump from 2013 when more than 3 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 80,411 barrels of oil were produced. The county produced
9.1 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 76,485 barrels of oil in just the fourth quarter of 2014.
ODNR this week provided the final quarter of production results for the Utica and Marcellus shale plays in the state.
Its data also show an increase from quarter to quarter in Columbiana County wells. The county’s wells in the first quarter are listed at 31, and by the fourth quarter, 53 wells were listed. Of these, in the first quarter there were 23 wells that produced, and in the fourth quarter there were 47 wells with production results.
Mahoning County’s fourth-quarter data show 5,006 barrels of oil and
1.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas produced. Trumbull County produced 5,019 barrels of oil and
244 million cubic feet of natural gas for that quarter.
The four-quarter results added together show Mahoning County produced 26,929 barrels of oil in 2014 compared with 3,485 barrels in 2013. The county also produced more than 4 billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2014 compared with 714 million
cubic feet in 2013.
In 2014, Trumbull County produced 40,688 barrels of oil and 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas. In 2013, Trumbull produced 21,692 barrels of oil and 195 million cubic feet of natural gas.
In the fourth quarter of 2014, there were 828 horizontal shale wells throughout Ohio with 779 wells with production results. Altogether, 3.6 million barrels of oil and 164 billion cubic feet of natural gas were produced in the quarter.
Read more in Friday's Vindicator