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The state Oil and Gas Commission has sided with the Department of Natural Resources in a case involving who should pay for a $1.3 million environmental cleanup caused by a leak from an Ohio ...
An Ohio commission awarded bids to frack oil and gas under state parks Monday, despite statewide backlash and an ongoing investigation into possibly fraudulent support. The Ohio Oil and Gas Land ...
October 28, 2014 – Monroe County, pipeline fire Eastern Ohio pipeline hauling toxic mix catches fire", Columbus Dispatch, October 28, 2014; November 12, 2014 – Noble County, Explosion, one dead "Worker killed in explosion at Noble County oil and gas facility", Columbus Dispatch, November 14, 2014 Archived May 18, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
In 2021, the state said it documented 20,000 orphan wells in a report to the Interior Department. The Wayne National Forest is home to at least 200 abandoned oil and gas wells in southeast Ohio ...
Ohio oil production peaked in 1896 at 24 million barrels, but Ohio continued as the leading oil state until 1902, when that title was taken by Oklahoma. [4] The Trenton limestone produced more than 380 million barrels of oil and 2 trillion cubic feet of gas, peaking in 1896 at 23.9 million barrels of oil.
The first discovery of oil from a drilled well and first offshore oil rig placed in world history occurred in Ohio in 1814 in Noble County, and 1891 at Grand Lake St. Marys. [11] Ohio was the country's lead producer of oil between 1895 and 1903, until technology allowed further developments throughout the nation. [ 12 ]
When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in 2007, she never envisioned her home would be surrounded by 78 oil and gas fracking wells a decade later, she said. "I wanted to ...
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