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4 A Look AheadGas & Oil Events

5 Rig Count Up Again

6 Free Classes Teach Safety in Gas/Oil Industry

8 Nine Energy Completes 124-Stage Well in Utica Shale

9 Removing Gas and Oil Leases From Your Land

11 Shale “INSIGHT” Conference September 21-22 in Pittsburgh

12 Shell Commits to PA Cracker Plant

14 Belmont County Commissioner Thomas Calls PA Cracker ‘Great News’

16 Cracker Plant Brings Potential to Northeast Ohio Plastics Companies

18 Munroe Falls Files Court Case Over Oil & Gas Well Authority

20 Pipeline Work Progressing in Stark County

22 Despite Assurances Officials Still Concerned

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24 Instructor Retires from Zane State Oil/Gas Program

25 Doylestown Council Requests Move of Pipeline

26 Ohio Oil and Gas Association Summer Meeting Aug. 15-16

27 Wall Street Journal Calls Ohio Valley’s Natural Gas A ‘Marketing Boon’

28 Utica Midstream Conference Highlights Industry Growth

31 Why Oil Prices Fluctuate

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On The Cover:124-Stage WellNine Energy has just completed a 124-Stage Well in Guernsey County for Eclipse Resources. This is one of the most complex ever completed by either company. All 124 stages were completed in less than month with no non-productive time. These types of long lateral wells continue to set the stage for effi ciencies in our diffi cult market. See page 8 for story details.

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•July12-13,2016 OOGEEP STEM Teacher Workshop, Canton, Ohio. Visit http://oogeep.org/event/oogeep-stem-teacher-workshop-canton-ohio/ for more information.

•July21-22,2016PIOGA’s Pig Roast, Equipment Show & Technical Conference, Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Champion, Pennsylvania

•July29-31,2016Oil History Symposium, Casper, West Virginia

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•September15,2016SOOGA Annual Trade Show, Washington County Fairgrounds, Marietta, Ohio

•September17-18,2016OOGEEP September Firefighter Workshop, Apple Creek, Ohio. Visit http://oogeep.org/event/oogeep-september-2016-firefighter-workshop/ for more information.

•September25-27,2016Eastern Section, American Association of Petroleum Geologists (ES-AAPG), Lexington, Kentucky

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The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose by six this week to 414, the second consecutive week the count has increased after a slide that lasted months and

pushed the count to record-low levels amid collapsed energy prices.

A year ago, 859 rigs were active.

Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc. said Friday 328 rigs sought oil and 85 explored for natural gas. One was listed as miscellaneous.

Among major oil- and gas-producing states, North Dakota and Texas each gained two rigs and Alaska, Ohio, Oklahoma and Utah each gained one.

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Executive director of OOGEEP Rhonda Reda said this program is funded “100 percent by the oil and gas producers who have oil and gas production in Ohio.” This safety training — which involves fi refi ghter, workforce and industry training as well as teacher workshops and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education workshops — is used to teach people

about the industry as well as promote safety in the workplace.

“We want to make sure our workers get the most up to date information regarding to working safely out there with the crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids that we’re drilling for and producing here in Ohio,” safety and workforce director Charlie Dixon said. “That’s important to us that they take our training and they continue safety as an everyday value.”

The OOGEEP recently held a workshop where participants would learn how to respond to oilfi eld emergencies, such as site emergency response, emergency evaluation and response resources. Each

participant who completed the workshop left with resources, such as a certifi cate of attendance and documentation for continuing education units (CEU) credit hours.

Reda said some programs can have “an entire day spent on a single topic,” which can range from teaching OSHA requirements or the risks of working outside with the wildlife. As well as being targeted to oil and gas producers and industry contractors, Reda said there are also STEM programs — targeting students from kindergarten to twelfth grade — which has a “curriculum that meets both state and national science standards.”

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“As an industry, we do feel it’s our responsibility to support education,” she said. “Since then, we have expanded in a lot more areas, thanks to the great leadership in this industry and we’ve expanded to a lot more areas then we were initially charged with.”

Marty Miller, chairman of the OOGEEP board and vice president of operations for Alliance Petroleum Corporation, serves as a moderator for these safety classes. At his latest safety class, he taught people about job hazard safety where he was able to “make an application to that specific type of job,” such as working on pipelines.

He said one of the most common occurring accidents he’s seen in his work involves driving safety, which he instructs workshop participants about driving safety and learning defensive driving habits. He said a moment where the “appropriate application” of the safety training came in handy when he taught a participant how to properly cut down a tree that could be in the way or has fallen on an access road.

“We always have trees that, through a storm or something, fall down across an access road or we have trees that we have to cut up,” Miller said. “I went through a complete step by step way of showing him exactly the same way to handle that … It was a perfect way of awareness now that many can take it from the workshop right to the job and put it into practice with my people there.”

Miller said what sets the OOGEEP safety training workshops apart from other workshops is how they get “real time, day-to-day” subjects in “our daily work requirements that are pertinent to us.”

“The difference on our part is I think we’ve got the most hands-on type of training there could possibly be,” he said. “We’re out there every day and our people that are looking at these issues, we’re trying to be so proactive of steering ahead of any problems that we possibly can.”

Reda said the approach the OOGEEP takes is a “proactive instead of reactive” measure when addressing how proactive these workshops are at promoting safety. Miller said an example of how they’re proactive is how they train people to work on horizontal drilling wells.

“We have to be proactive in knowing and seeing in advance what potential problems could develop and get it taken care of in advance,” Miller said. “It’s a changing world and everybody’s job, not just the oil and gas industry, [involves] doing new things in new ways. We’re constantly running into more… wells and higher lines of production.”

According to its website, the OOGEEP scheduled two STEM teacher workshops in June and July, hosted in Marietta and Canton, respectively. There will also be an oil history symposium held in Casper, West Virginia in July.

The OOGEEP recently held free oil and gas safety classes where participants learned how to respond to oilfield emergencies.

Reda said the OOGEEP started in 1996 with “conversations about what we can do as an industry” to “aggregate funds to create these programs,” which began with a project addressing education in schools.

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Nine Energy Completes 124-StageWell in Utica ShaleNine Energy Service, Inc. successfully completed 124

perforated stages in an 18,544 ft. lateral in Guernsey County for Eclipse Resources, a premier independent E&P company in the Appalachian Basin.

In one of the most complex wells ever completed by either company, Nine’s Wireline Division worked directly with Eclipse to design the plug and perf system through Cerebus Well Modeling software, enabling more effective planning and deployment of cable-conveyed tools. Nine completed all 124 stages in 23.5 days without any non-productive time.

“In the current low commodity environment, operators like Eclipse are targeting their core acreage and remain focused on optimizing development with longer laterals and shorter spacing,” said Nick Pottmeyer, VP of Completions Technology, North America for Nine. “Longer laterals are proving to be a more effective way to develop acreage. Increased well costs to drill further can be justifi ed by the improved production ranges and return on revenue.”

Kyle Bradford, Completions Manager for Eclipse Resources added, “Nine was the only wireline company that we considered. We knew with such a technical well, there would be a number of challenges and we needed a partner that we could rely on to execute at the wellsite and who could quickly address any problems.”

Ann Fox, Nine’s President and CEO stated, “In a diffi cult market, the team at Nine continues to prove they can complete the longest laterals with conventional plug and perf, as well as recently designing and stimulating a 50-stage open hole Divert-A-Frac sleeve system in the Williston Basin. We are extremely proud of combining our best-in-class technology with excellent service for the benefi t of our customers.”

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and gas drilling activity on or near your land and whether any wells are currently producing oil and gas.

You should not rely on an owner’s title insurance policy insuring your land to determine whether oil and gas leases encumber your land. All owner’s title insurance policies issued in Ohio now include the following exclusion from coverage: “Coal, oil, natural gas, or other mineral interests and all rights incident thereto now or previously conveyed, transferred, leased, excepted or reserved.” What this means is that the title insurance company does not insure that your land is free and clear of oil and gas leases. Because of this broad general

exclusion from coverage, the title company may not search for or include oil and gas leases on your owner’s title insurance policy.

A title examination answers the fi rst question and reveal whether oil and gas leases encumber your land. Now what, if anything, do you do about the oil and gas leases revealed by the title examination? There are basically three options: (1) do nothing; (2) fi le a lawsuit to have the oil and gas leases removed; or (3) attempt to remove the oil and gas leases using what is known as an affi davit of forfeiture.

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Filing a lawsuit to have a court order the cancellation of the oil and gas leases encumbering your land because the oil and gas leases have terminated is an option and, depending on the history of your land, may be the only option.

Another option is to attempt to remove the oil and gas leases from your land using the affidavit of forfeiture procedure provided for in Ohio Revised Code Section 5301.332 (the “Forfeiture Procedure”). The Forfeiture Procedure is a viable option when there are no producing or drilling wells on your land or on a drilling unit which includes your land and the oil and gas company has failed to perform specific promises contained in the oil and gas lease or the term of the oil and gas lease has expired. To use the Forfeiture Procedure, an attempt must be made to notify the oil and gas company by certified mail, return receipt requested, at its last known address, of your intent to declare the oil and gas lease forfeited. If service is not obtained by certified mail, then notice of intent to declare forfeiture is published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where your land is located. If the oil and gas company does not dispute your claim for forfeiture within sixty days after service of notice to declare forfeiture, the oil and gas lease can be cancelled. However, if the oil and gas company disputes your claim that the oil and gas lease has been forfeited, you will need to file a lawsuit to cancel the oil and gas lease.

As seen from the above, there is more than one option for the removal of oil and gas leases encumbering your land. You should consult with an attorney with knowledge of oil and gas law to determine which option makes the most sense for you given the history of your property and your particular situation. Like most areas of the law, one answer does not fit every situation.

Mr. Mathie is a member of Critchfield, Critchfield and Johnston, Ltd., a law firm with extensive experience in all aspects of the oil and gas industry which has been representing landowners, producers, drillers, service providers, and others in the industry for over 75 years.

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The Marcellus Shale Coalition (MSC), the Ohio Oil and Gas Association (OOGA) and the West Virginia Oil and Natural Gas Association (WVONGA), are announcing a joint partnership to host the sixth annual SHALE INSIGHT™ Conference. This industry-leading event will take place in the heart of the Marcellus and Utica shale gas plays on September 21 and 22 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pa.

“By partnering with key regional trade groups in three of the top energy producing states in the nation, SHALE INSIGHT™ 2016 is sure to be the premier industry conference this year, and will further enhance the conference’s programming by highlighting the challenges and opportunities in the Appalachian Basin, presenting greater value to attendees,” said MSC president David Spigelmyer. “The SHALE INSIGHT™ conference has been at the forefront of showcasing emerging trends, especially related to technologies and best practices, while bringing together thought leaders, top executives as well as public officials to discuss and offer impactful analysis.”

The focus of this year’s conference is the next phase of the shale revolution and will emphasize end use and connecting the market place through infrastructure. The conference will feature keynote presentations, an interactive and robust exhibit floor, tailored panel discussions, the Technology Showcase and a Natural Gas Use Marketplace, which all present networking opportunities for attendees.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to showcase our region, and we’re excited to be collaborating with the MSC and WVONGA this year for SHALE INSIGHT™,” said OOGA executive vice president Shawn Bennett. “While our industry continues to face significant challenges, the current and future prospects for the Appalachian Basin remain very promising. This conference creates an important forum to exchange ideas, share best practices and heighten the dialogue around common sense energy policies, and we’re glad to be part of its continued success.”

“A number of energy producers as well as suppliers and vendors across Appalachia are active in more than one state, so this combined effort absolutely adds value for attendees,” said WVONGA executive director Corky DeMarco. “We’re very eager to contribute to the conference and look forward to working alongside our regional partner trade groups to make this year’s event worthwhile for all involved.”

Registration is now open, offering special member and early bird rates. A variety of sponsorships offering comprehensive entitlements are available, including general session presentations, luncheons, networking events and other branding and marketing opportunities.

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Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC said June 7 that it’s building a petrochemical plant that will create up to 6,000 construction jobs and 600 permanent jobs once it begins production early next decade.

Construction will begin in the next 18 months, with the goal of bringing the northwestern Pennsylvania plant online early in the 2020s, the company said.

The company had committed tens of millions of dollars acquiring the site, a former zinc smelting operation in Potter Township, Beaver County, and other improvements, including helping a nearby water authority retool. Still, the company had not formally committed to the project - estimated at $2 billion to $6 billion by various elected officials and experts - until Tuesday, when its officials declined to comment on the cost.

The decision, coupled with recent decisions to build chemical plants in Louisiana and China “demonstrates the growth of Shell

in chemicals and strengthens our competitive advantage,” the company said in a statement.

Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf, who called the project a “game-changing plant,” and other elected officials and economic development agencies hailed the decision.

“The success of this project is part of a much-needed, longer-term plan to translate our abundant resources to make Pennsylvania a leader in downstream production,” Wolf said.

The Allegheny Conference on Community Development said Shell’s announcement signals its re-entry into the North American polyethylene market.

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The plant will crack ethane gas molecules from Marcellus and Utica shale wells into base petrochemical building blocks that can be refined to create polyethylene, a plastic used in food packaging and auto parts.

The plant’s location is ideal because the region is loaded with the gas wells that will feed it and because 70 percent of Shell’s

polyethylene customers are within 700 miles of it, the company said. The plant will produce about 1.6 million metric tons of polyethylene annually. Shell sells about 17 million metric tons of the plastic each year.

Former Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in 2012 OK’d legislation to give Shell tax credits worth $1.7 billion over 25 years to build the plant.

Shell spent nearly $4 million extending land options on the site before paying $13.5 million for the site in 2014. Shell spent about as much buying nearby properties, then committed to spending $80 million to clean up industrial contamination from the zinc plant and previous users.

The state Department of Environmental Protection has approved a plan to cap the former plant site with about 6 feet of soil before roads, buildings and other facilities are built. Environmental activists have criticized the project, including some air quality permits approved by the state last year.

Rich Fitzgerald, chief executive in neighboring Allegheny County, said the plan for the plant is equivalent to building 25 sports stadiums.

“What a thrilling announcement today for our region,” Fitzgerald said.

“We welcome Shell’s decision to go forward with its Monaca PA ethane cracker project. This project will have a major economic benefits for Ohio and West Virginia as well. It also increases the likelihood of similar projects being built at other sites in the upper Ohio River valley.”

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Belmont County Commissioner Mark Thomas and PTT Global Chemical America spokesman Dan Williamson said Royal Dutch Shell’s Tuesday decision to build an ethane cracker

near Pittsburgh will not deter efforts to construct a similar facility at Dilles Bottom.

In fact, Thomas said the global oil giant’s commitment to building in Beaver County, Pa. proves just how viable massive petrochemical plants are in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions.

“I think it is great news for the Ohio Valley. Shell’s decision to build up there confirms that this region is where a cracker needs to be,” Thomas said. “There are sufficient mineral resources in the ground to warrant

plants like this being built.”

More than four years after Shell officials said they were considering building the ethane cracker on property formerly owned by the Horsehead Corp. near Monaca, Pa. - roughly a 45-minute drive from Weirton - leaders with the firm based in the Netherlands confirmed they will process ethane in Pennsylvania.

“Shell’s decision to move forward with this world-class facility, which will put thousands to work across our region through utilizing clean-burning domestic natural gas for decades to come, is welcomed news, especially given the challenging market conditions,” Travis Windle, a spokesman for the Marcellus Shale Coalition, said. “This investment also reflects the

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fact that domestic manufacturing’s potential is near limitless thanks to our abundant and stable energy supplies from natural gas.”

According to Shell, the company will begin construction in 18 months. The project will generate 6,000 temporary construction jobs, along with 600 permanent full-time jobs once it is operational, company leaders said.

“Shell’s decision to move forward with its project in Pennsylvania will have no impact on our project,” Williamson said. “There are rich feedstock resources in this region of the U.S. which are closer to our project compared to projects on the Gulf Coast and other regions of the country.”

When constructed, the cracker complex is crack the ethane into ethylene, which is used as a basis for plastics and resins contained in items such as food packaging, textiles and pharmaceuticals.

Presently, most of region’s ethane is either blended into the methane stream for marketing as natural gas, or shipped to other regions for cracking via pipeline.

There are now six new ethane crackers under construction in the U.S.: the Sasol ethane cracker complex at Westlake, La.; the Occidental Chemical/Mexichem ethane cracker at Ingleside, Texas; the Formosa Plastics ethane cracker at Point Comfort, Texas; the Dow Chemical ethane cracker at Freeport, Texas; the Exxon Mobil Chemical ethane cracker at Baytown, Texas; and the Chevron Phillips Chemical ethane cracker at Baytown, Texas.

“Thanks to our nation’s abundant supplies of shale gas, the U.S. has become the world’s destination for new chemical industry investment. Our competitive edge will mean new jobs and exports and a stronger manufacturing sector for years to come,” American Chemistry Council President and CEO Cal Dooley added.

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As a professional in the business development world, Paul Boulier, vice president of business attraction at Team Northeast Ohio, said Ohio

businesses should treat the growing ethane and oil industry in the state as a marathon rather than a sprint.

On June 7th, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it will be moving forward with a multi-billion dollar cracker plant in Beaver County along the Ohio river.

In the middle of the Utica Midstream conference in Canton on June 8, Boulier was asked by the Chamber’s vice president

for public policy and energy David Kaminski to give his feedback on the announcement by Shell the day before.

Boulier explained he has 42 years of experience in the industry and the Shell cracker plant announcment, he said, will help the industry people and public at large to “connect the dots” in the growth of the energy market in Ohio and the businesses who want to benefi t from it.

Boulier has experience developing business attractions for the regions core industries including metal fabrication and machinery; polymers, chemicals and coatings; energy, oil & gas; as well as packaging and transportation, according to the Team NEO website.

Team NEO, the company he works for now, is an economic development organization and is an Ohio Means Jobs affi liate.

A cracker plant in Ohio means opened opportunity for Ohio, he said. He added that many people don’t realize there are over 17,000 companies in the Northeast Ohio region that work in the plastics industry.

Boulier was talking about those 17,000 businesses being the ones that will use the ethane to create plastics, but to become the leaders, he said the region needs to treat the development of the petrochemical industry as a marathon, not a sprint.

“This shell announcement is one high point. It demonstrates that the demand is strong enough to make investments here,” he said.

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Boulier later said that people should not think of the growth of the industry as one-sided, but crude oil, natural gas and ethane products can all be used to create other products and this region could end up being the next petrochemical and plastics global hub.

Rather than creating a system where companies ship all of the oil, gas and ethane out of the region, Boulier was suggesting companies find a way to use the product locally first to create other products.

The real prize, he said, is not that oil and gas can be taken from the northeast Ohio region, but the products we can create from them.

He also said he was a part of the agreement the governors’ offices of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio signed last year to cooperate in order to enhance and further grow the economic development of the Appalachian shale region.

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Five years after the city began legal battles over control of oil and gas wells

within city boundaries, there is a new court case in the matter.

According to Summit County Court of Common Pleas records, the city on May 27 fi led a complaint for declaratory judgement and request for stay, naming Ravenna-based Beck Energy Corp. and South Carolina-based Sonoco Products Co. as defendants, in connection with an oil and gas well Beck wants to drill on a parcel of land owned by Sonoco. The parcel is just west of Sonoco’s paper mill on the west side of Route 91, a little north of Munroe Falls Avenue, according to

documents fi led by the city with the court.

The city is asking that the court “declare whether Munroe Falls has the right to enforce its zoning ordinances relative to oil and gas wells within its municipal jurisdiction; to declare whether Beck is required to obtain a zoning certifi cate and/or a zoning variance from Munroe Falls prior to drilling the Sonoco well, and further requests a stay of all drilling activities by Beck until” the court reaches a decision.

The city is arguing that while state law gives the Ohio Department of Natural Resources authority to regulate oil and gas production in the state, the law “does not expressly prohibit the enforcement of local

zoning ordinances.”

Mayor James Armstrong, an attorney, told the Stow Sentry June 2 that the case is about “asking the court to answer a question of law” following a February 2015 Ohio Supreme Court decision in a case fi led by the city in 2013. The 4-3 decision ruled that the state has “sole and exclusive authority” over regulation of oil and gas wells and it resulted in the city removing ordinances on its books regulating drilling operations because the decision made them unenforceable. While part of the majority on the decision, Justice Terrence O’Donnell separately wrote that the opinion does not address local land use ordinances.

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In a May 6 letter sent to Munroe Falls Service Director Jim Bowery, Beck attorney Scott Zurakowski wrote that Beck only needed a drilling permit from ODNR, according to the state high court’s decision and state law, and “Beck Energy is not required to complete a zoning application or obtain a zoning certificate prior to drilling the Sonoco well.”

“Mr. Zurakowski is right,” Beck Energy President Raymond Beck told the Stow Sentry June 2. “Everything pretty much has been said. We know what the law says and the law is on our side.”

Armstrong said the city is not making any claims against Sonoco.

“Sonoco is a necessary party,” he said. “The actual complaint allows them, if they have any interest or any claim, to be notified of the situation, but it’s mainly a request for the court to determine whether our zoning ordinances in light of the Supreme Court case still apply if ODNR has issued a drilling permit.”

A call made to Sonoco was not returned before press time.

Eric Heis, a spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, said June 2 that a previous one-year permit for the well expired in April and that ODNR received an application from Beck for a new permit on May 26.

“We are currently reviewing a pending permit,” said Heis, adding that he could not say how long the process would take.

According to the complaint, oil and gas wells are conditionally permitted in I-1 industrial zoning districts, which total about 32 of the city’s more than 1,700 acres. The Sunoco parcel, however, is zoned R-4 residential, which would require a zoning variance to drill a well.

The city in its complaint is citing concerns about a “municipal water field” operated by Cuyahoga Falls about a half mile to the west of the proposed well site, saying that if the “integrity” of the field is “compromised” by the well, “the communities of Munroe Falls, Cuyahoga Falls, and Silver Lake would be without an immediate water supply source.”

According to ODNR’s website, steps are taken to ensure the protection of water supplies.

“During drilling, steel casings are inserted to the well bore,” states the website. “The casing makes sure that the fluid to be pumped through the well, in addition to the oil and gas collected, remains isolated from groundwater and never enters the water supply.

It adds that ODNR “inspectors place a high priority on witnessing this critical phase to make certain of proper installation.”

The Ohio Supreme Court case was not the last high court case on the matter. Last June, Beck asked the court to order the city to remove zoning ordinances, namely that R-4 zoning does not allow oil and gas wells, that the city cited in ordering that Beck stop working on the planned Sonoco well. The court dismissed the case in November.

Beck and the city have intermittently been fighting in court over local control of oil and gas wells since 2011, first in Summit County Court of Common Pleas, then the Ninth District Court of Appeals and finally the high court. The city has argued that the issue is one of home rule while Beck contends that it would be too onerous for drillers to have to follow numerous local ordinances.

Jeff Saunders can be reached at [email protected] or 330-541-9431.

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In his letter to Bowery, Zurakowski wrote, “...once Beck Energy receives renewal of its permit from ODNR, due to weather conditions, Beck Energy intends to immediately commence drilling of the Sonoco well.”

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Companies working on pipeline projects in Stark County continue to make progress as they move toward their completion dates.

Currently, there are three pipeline projects on the drawing board in Stark County, including Marathon’s Cornerstone pipeline and Energy Transfer’s Rover pipeline.

The NEXUS Gas Transmission Pipeline, which also runs through Stark County, currently doesn’t impact the southern portion of the county.

According to Jason Stechschulte, senior engineer for Marathon Pipe Line LLC, Marathon’s Cornerstone Pipeline originates in Harrison County and when complete will deliver to Marathon Petroleum Company LP’s Canton refinery and to ORPL’s East Sparta tank farm.

The Cornerstone Pipeline covers 42 miles and includes a 16-inch diameter pipeline system with a route that provides the opportunity for connections to various Utica Shale condensate stabilization facilities, fractionator facilities, and cryogenic facilities, along with potential future gathering and storage facilities.

The pipeline and infrastructure work is a $250 million project.

According to Stechschulte, the estimated in-service date for the Cornerstone Pipeline is anticipated to be late this year.

“We’ve been completing site preparation work and expect to be in stark county in July,” he said. “After site preparation, there will be a trenching crew and several other crews that work on the line.”

Marathon’s Cornerstone pipeline includes a 42-mile section of 16-inch diameter pipe from Cadiz to the storage facility in East Sparta. A line will then be run from the East Sparta facility to the company’s refinery in Canton.

The pipeline will cover about two miles from the county line to East Sparta.

Stechschulte noted that when that is completed, crews will continue to complete the eight-mile stretch from East Sparta to the Canton refinery. The line from East Sparta to the refinery will be eight-inch pipe.

Stechschulte added that there will be little or no impact on area residents. The line runs east of East Sparta

“The line doesn’t really run into the village at all,” he said.

The Cornerstone line does pass under State Route 800 and the Nimishillen Creek, but horizontal drilling will minimize environmental impacts as well as impacts on the community.

As part of the project crews have been using three horizontal-directional drills in Stark County.

The Cornerstone Pipeline also will deliver volumes into the East Sparta tank farm for transportation to additional markets via the Utica build-out projects, which include new construction and utilization of existing pipelines.

“That is why we’ve named this the Cornerstone Pipeline,” Stechschulte added. “This is the cornerstone line to

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Officials from Energy Transfer said the company plans to start work on its Rover pipeline project during the fourth quarter of this year, with major work starting early next year.

A company official explained that the local portion of the Rover line, a 42-inch transfer pipe, will run through southern Stark County as well as portions of Tuscarawas and Carroll counties.

The approximate $4.2 billion pipeline will gather gas from processing plants in West Virginia, Eastern Ohio and Western Pennsylvania for delivery to the Midwest Hub near Defiance, Ohio, where roughly 68 percent of the gas will be delivered via interconnects with existing pipelines in Ohio and West Virginia for distribution to markets across the U.S.

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NEXUS has awarded four contracts for the construction of a proposed pipeline that includes a portion of the route through Stark County.

The awarding of the construction contracts in February for the proposed NEXUS Gas Transmission Pipeline comes in advance

of an awaited approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on the $2 billion project.

In 2015, NEXUS Gas Transmission, a unit of Spectra Energy Corp., proposed the 36-inch natural gas pipeline to the federal commission. NEXUS is seeking to begin building in the first quarter of 2017.

According to a company spokesman, awarded the contracts early is standard in the industry in order to keep NEXUS on target for an in-service date in November 2017.

The company awarded the four portions of the work to three contractors. Mississippi-based M.G. Dyess Inc. and Georgia-based Latex Construction Co. each was awarded one Ohio portion. Wisconsin-based Michels Corp. was awarded one portion in Ohio and one in Michigan, where the pipeline is proposed to pass through on its way from southern Ohio to a hub in Canada.

Company officials did not provide a dollar figure for the agreements or detail which contractor received the contract for the section that includes the proposed route through Stark County.

The contracts were awarded for pipeline construction only.

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The Guernsey County commissioners have reiterated opposition to a planned drill cuttings treatment facility to be located in the Desmond

Hall Industrial Park.

“Our position hasn’t changed,” said Commissioner Dave Wilson, speaking on behalf of the board. “The primary reason we had this meeting was to give the public an opportunity to hear from these people, for our state elected representatives ... with Senator (Troy) Balderson and Representative (Brian) Hill being here ... to be able to hear the concerns here, since they would be our conduit to the OEPA and the ODNR, and those who are in control of the permitting process.”

Wilson said concerns heard from residents and municipal and business representatives were varied.

“The concerns have been varied in terms of potential contamination to ground water,” he said, “in terms of wells, in terms of the secondary or backup water source for the Village of Byesville, a concern expressed by a representative here of Colgate-Palmolive for both potential water or airborne contamination issues. They have been pretty much as varied as the people in attendance.”

The commissioners adopted a resolution dated Oct. 14, 2015, expressing their unanimous opposition to the facility.

“The board feels that we (Guernsey County) are already absorbing more than our share of frack-related waste with multiple injection wells being located in our county (which our board previously went on record in opposition of),” reads the resolution, in part. “This untreated, radioactive material would be trucked into our community from the north, south and east, which means it would have to cross Wills Creek, which is the drinking water source for the City of Cambridge, as well as the entire Guernsey County Water Department system.”

Commissioners met Monday to hear comments and concerns regarding the facility planned by EnerGreen 360, represented at the meeting by Joe Lorenz.

The planned facility by EnerGreen 360 would transport in water-tight clamshell containers slurry — rock, shale and synthetic biodegradable oil used as a lubricant during the horizontal drilling component of hydraulic fracking operations — from gas and oil drilling sites to the Community Industrial Association-owned property south of Cambridge. There, it would be treated and converted into material used to backfill to a depth of 80 feet an area in the business center.

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facility would be the first of its kind in Ohio, according to Lorenz.

The end result would be 36 acres of land ready for the construction of commercial buildings, Lorenz said, adding there are businesses committed to the site.

Lorenz said the fill material is safe, with no chance of the leeching of any chemicals into water sources.

“We’re going to provide a safer alternative to landfill,” he said.

The material would be radioactive, Lorenz said. But the measurable radioactivity, measured in millrems (mRem), would slot in at less than .5 mRem, that to which a person subjected to a dental X-ray is exposed.

(By comparison, the average person on an average day is exposed to 1.0 mRem of background radiation, a chest X-ray exposes a patient to 10 mRem, a mammogram 300 mRem and 3,600 mRem if smoking 30 cigarettes daily for a year.)

Lubricating oils extracted during the treatment process would be returned to the drilling site of origin for reuse.

Several attendees expressed concerns, including potential snags associated with the presence of former strip mines in the area. Lorenz said the work would proceed outside the footprint of those mines.

Studies have indicated the cuttings treatment process would not pose a substantial risk to ground or surface water sources, Lorenz said, and monitoring will be done and secondary and tertiary containment strategies adopted.

Safeguards would also exist to prevent off-site contamination, including those addressing as many as 30 trucks delivering cuttings to the facility daily. The facility could take in as much as 1,000 tons of cuttings per day.

According to data supplied EnerGreen 360, Lorenz said, no portion of the filled property would intrude into the airspace of the nearby Cambridge Municipal Airport. However, Operations Manager Dave Mourer of the airport said they received word that a portion of one of the planned commercial buildings to be built at the site would intrude into the airspace. If true, Lorenz said, a redesign or repositioning of the building might be necessary.

Liability for any contamination would be shouldered through insurance and the State of Ohio.

Guernsey County was chosen for the facility due to the number of local oil and gas wells providing a readily accessible source of cuttings for treatment, as well as the presence of sufficient infrastructure, Lorenz said.

“It makes a lot of sense for us to be here,” he said. “I think it’s a great win-win.”

Despite the risk of contamination of water sources, albeit low as indicated by Lorenz, Blanchard said his support of the facility, which could result in the creation of 200 new jobs, was not offered lightly.

“There’s nothing to indicate this would happen here,” he said. “We didn’t do this without a lot of thought.”

Lorenz said five permits were required for the company to proceed, one from the Ohio Department of Transportation and two each from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

“All the permits we need are in the process of securing, or have been secured,” he said.

Lorenz said an accurate estimate of the time required to complete the site could not be provided at this time.

Wilson said additional opposition by the commissioners to the planned facility might not be possible.

“I don’t know if there is a vehicle to which the county could take any steps to prevent it,” he said. “The process is pretty well spelled out. To our understanding, this is essentially the extent to which we can voice our concern and to be a voice to the authorities.”

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Robert A. S t o n e r o c k , instructor for the Oil and Gas

Engineering Technology program at The Willett-

Pratt Training Center on the Zane State College campus in Cambridge, said this year’s graduating class is the “cream of the crop.”

Stonerock retired from his position at the college after the May 7 graduation exercises.

He said after four years as an instructor at the college he is “going to shake hands with his students and then it’s on to greener pastures ... To a new chapter in my life.” He is going home to Nashport.

Stonerock stands in front of the geologic rock column, built as a capstone project last year under the guidance of OGET instructors, Robert Stonerock and Paul Pasley. The structure was “Bob’s baby,” according to students.

“We have rock from formations that are more than 360 million years old,” said Stonerock. “The foundation of this column is 540 million-year-old granite. The next several layers — bottom layer to top layer — are Trenton limestone, Utica shale, Clinton sandstone, Marcellus shale and Berea sandstone. The date and project name will be cemented on the side of the structure that faces the Paul Brown EPIC Center across the road.

“The geological rock column is dedicated to the oil and gas geological formations in Ohio, the gateway to the shale fi elds in eastern Ohio, and to gas and oil,” said Stonerock.

Stonerock has had an interesting career, before “riding off into the sunset.”

He joined the U.S. Army in June of 1975, committing to the 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N. Car. where he was a paratrooper. He was discharged as a Sargent E-5.

In 1984, he transferred as UH-1H merchanic to on-the-job training as a 67N on the UH-1H helicopter. In 1985, he enlisted in the Ohio Military Academy, OSC Leadership program. From 1985-1988, he was stationed with the Ohio Air Reserve National Guard, Company B, where he trained rifl e platoon on infantry tactics. May 1988 he was a mortar platoon leader for fi re support operations. From 1990-1992, he was an executive offi cer monitoring logistical activities for the company. Also substituting for the company commander. From 1992-1994, he was a company commander of a 250 soldier unit.

Military awards include basic Jump Wings, Expert Infantry badge, Good Conduct Medal.

Robert earned an Associate of Applied Science in Natural Resources Conservation in 1981 from Muskingum Area Technical College; a Bachelor of Arts in History from Ohio University, and Norwich University in Vermont. He is Master of Arts candidate at Ohio University.

He is a certifi ed PEC Safeland instructor.

He was an instructor at Zane State College in the Oil and Gas Engineering Technology Program, from 2012 to

2016, and a class advisor for the student chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

In his spare time he is national historian for the 82nd Airborne Division Association, director of the 504 PIR Association, and treasurer of the Muskingum County Sheep Association.

He enjoys kayaking, gardening and raising Texel sheep.

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Robert “Bob” Stonerock, instructor for the Oil and Gas Engineering Technology program at Zane State College retired from his position following his student’s graduation May 7. Stonerock is standing in front of last year’s graduates’ capstone project, the geologic rock column. This year’s capstone was the amazing “pig” launcher. Read associated story for explanation of the P.I.G.


Council members passed a resolution Tuesday to request realignment of a proposed 36-inch gas line. A resolution, drawn up by consultant George Smerigan, outlines the concerns council members

have regarding the current route in the project proposed by Nexus Gas Transmission.

“We have met with them multiple times,” said Councilwoman Kay Kerr. “We gave them proposals for rerouting the line and they (Nexus) were not in agreement with our proposals.”

Resolution 2016-10 states the current, proposed path is in confl ict with existing village owned water and sewer lines. The line would also be routed through the largest commercial property in the village and substantially reduce its value.

A staging area is proposed at the location of an adult and child daycare facility that would stifl e its use.

The path also runs through a residential subdivision where a substantial investment has been made and would render fourteen lots unusable for developing. A proposed 10-acre, large vehicle, staging area at this location would damage additional development to the area.

The cumulative effect of the proposed line would create a severe economic loss to the village.

Village representatives have met with Nexus representatives on, at least, three occasions and requested alternate routes to minimize the economic and environmental impact; Nexus has chosen to ignore those requests, according to the document.

Council has formally expressed opposition to the current alignment of the transmission line and the next step is to contact government agencies and offi cials.

Council also passed a motion to contract with Buckeye Sealcoating to overlay the section of Black Drive from Church Street to Frederick Street at a cost of $17,675.

Mayor Lindeman said the village would start spraying for mosquitos every Wednesday starting on June 8, weather permitting. In case of inclement weather, spraying will be conducted on Thursdays.

Reporter Dan Starcher can be reached at 330-287-1626. He is @danstarcher on Twitter.

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“We need to be on the record with our opposition to the proposed route,” said Mayor Terry Linderman. “We have to let them know we aren’t happy about this.”

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Ohio Oil and Gas AssociationSummer Meeting Aug. 15-16The Ohio Oil & Gas Association Summer Meeting is

scheduled for Aug. 15-16 at the Zanesville Country Club.

Highlights for the annual event include a clay shoot, golf at the country club, a tennis tournament and the Oilfi eld Patriot Award Dinner and Ceremony sponsored by the Producers Service Corporation.

Summer Meeting registration includes breakfast on both days, lunch and dinner on Tuesday, complimentary ice cream and access to the beer garden on Tuesday, entertainment and entry for door prizes.

Meeting registration is required to purchase and participate in the sporting events.

Summer Meeting registration is not required to attend the Oilfi eld Patriot Award Dinner and Ceremony on Monday evening.

Early registration rates (through July 29) are $150 for members or $250 for non-members; regular registration is $200 for members and $300 for non-members; Oilfi eld Patriot Award Ceremony, $100; golf, $100, clay shoot, $75; and tennis, $25.

Summer Meeting registration is not required to attend the Oilfi eld Patriot Award Dinner and Ceremony.

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Credit the Marcellus shale formation and the latest drilling technology for a new distinction for a portion of southeastern Ohio and northwestern West Virginia. Business leaders in the region claim and a prominent

business publication concurs that the region is producing the least expensive natural gas — not just in Ohio nor even in the nation, but in the entire industrialized world.

“We are extraordinarily pleased that the Wall Street Journal has investigated and validated our region’s claim to the cheapest natural gas in the industrialized world,” John Molinaro said.

Molinaro is president and chief executive officer for the Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth.

“This provides a strong incentive for energy-intensive industries to consider locating in our region,” he said.

It may well have played a role in the decision of Apex Power Group LLC to build a power plant in Guernsey County, Ohio.

In early April, Apex officials announced they would establish the Guernsey Power Station, a facility capable of producing 1,100 megawatts of electricity.

“At its core, the Guernsey Power Station will consist of two state-of-the-art, natural gas-fired combustion turbine generators,” said a spokesperson for the company.

Construction of the plant is projected to produce about 500 jobs. At 25 employees to operate the plant, the permanent employee prospects are more modest, but important to the county nonetheless.

About 150 miles to the northeast, however, the gas bonanza will encourage construction of a petrochemical plant near Pittsburgh. A Royal Dutch Shell PLC spokesperson said construction of the plant would involve 6,000 workers. Once completed, the plant would entail 600 permanent jobs.

“This part of Appalachia has become the country’s driver of gas production as improved drilling techniques have cracked gas-rich shale formations,” according to an article by Tim Puko in the June 8 issue of The Wall Street Journal.

Economic development officials, in their efforts to market the region, have been quick to tap economic potential of the gas resource as a lure to manufacturers around the world.

The price for natural gas mined from the region has flirted with levels 30 percent cheaper than the national benchmark.

The epicenter for the natural gas production boom is the Marietta, Ohio and Parkersburg, W.Va. area.

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So, what does that have to do with cheap natural gas?


“There’s a lot of money to be made here,” commented Frank Nieto, senior editor of Hart Energy’s Midstream Business magazine, during the afternoon session of the May 8 Utica Midstream Conference in Canton.

Nieto, who presented conference participants with an outlook for the midstreaming industry, said although the price of WTI crude tumbled in late 2008 and again early this year, projects to build the infrastructure that processes and moves natural gas and oil products are likely to keep growing as demand for the fuels grows.

West Texas Intermediate crude, which is used to benchmark oil prices, increased from $71 per barrel in June 2007 to $151 per barrel in June 2008, but the commodity fell to $50 per barrel by the end of that same year.

Although crude prices climbed over $100 per barrel in the summer of 2014, they fell again after Saudi Arabia increased its production of the commodity to mitigate the impact of Iranian and Iraqi crude and acquire more market share.

In January of this year, WTI crude brought less than $30 per barrel.

However, Nieto said, the return of Iranian and Iraqi crude to the global market “has been muted.”

“The good news is that the rest of the market has started to react and has begun to get some semblance of a balance,” he explained, noting that the pricing ceiling for crude at the time of the conference had reached $50 to $60 per barrel.

“Midstream continues to move,” Nieto stated. “It hasn’t been unaffected by the downturn in prices, of course. There have been slowdowns...but we still see there is a lot of need for midstreaming infrastructure.”

He explained that “a cautious approach” to the industry suggests that midstreaming will become lucrative if industry leaders remain on top of challenges and respond to the world’s growing need for oil and NG products.

That approach is based on data indicating that projects to build pipelines and midstream facilities are unlikely to be canceled or delayed, once they have been announced, as long as commodities prices do not become overly challenged.

“The larger a project, the less likely it is to be delayed,” said Nieto, adding that projects to gather pipelines and develop regional fractionation facilities will probably be the most attractive.

Additionally, Nieto said, if Senator Bernie Sanders is not named the Democratic presidential candidate, the outcome of this November’s presidential election is unlikely to result in major energy reform as neither of the presumptive Democratic or Republican nominees have made energy a key part of their platforms.

However, he cautioned that opposition from groups seeking to stop pipelines and related infrastructure, as well as a March court decision for Sabine Energy that allows bankrupt companies to back out of pipeline contracts, are headwinds that the midstream industry must consider as it endeavors to grow.

Additionally, Nieto said key staff in the Environmental Protection Agency “are likely to continue to swing left” regardless of which nominee wins the presidency, which could result in more regulatory requirements for the midstream industry.

“You need to stay on the right side of the public and regulatory environment,” he commented.

Utica Midstream Conference

Highlights Industry GrowthBy Sara Klein

Review Photo/Kevin Graff Mark James, AEP American Electric Power Vice President for Economic and Business Development, talks about AEP and the gas and oil industry on Wednesday at the Utica Midstream event at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.


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Nieto indicated that midstream industry leaders who can pilot their companies through these headwinds will be poised to take advantage of needs for NG and related products, particularly in New York state, New England and the southeastern United States.

Additionally, the market for exported shale products continues to grow in Western Europe, Mexico, and Asia, especially China, India, South Korea and Japan, Nieto stated.

Noting changes over the past decade, Nieto said, “the U.S. is quickly becoming a major force on the global market,” as it continues its transformation from an oil-importing country to an oil-exporting country.

Liquified petroleum gas exports are key to the propane and butane markets, while liquefied natural gas exports can alleviate the downward pressure that the sale of commodity stocks puts on prices, said Nieto.

He added that condensate and ethanol export terminals, although niche markets today, are also growing.

Market data specifically point to the increasing importance of the Marcellus and Utica shales, according to Nieto, who said that although the Gulf Coast remains the chief producer of the U.S. petrochemical industry, the Utica in particular has the supply needed to support a petrochemical hub in the northeastern region of the country.

Indications are that the Marcellus and Utica shales will result in two hubs in the northeastern U.S. that Nieto said could become “major players” in the energy industry.

One possible hub is Philadelphia, home to Sonoco Logistic’s Marcus Hook and Mariner East facilities, which Nieto said open access to domestic and foreign markets. The second location for a possible hub is Pittsburgh’s Dominion South Point, which he said “might become one of the industry’s most important benchmarks.”

In addition, a number of other midstream projects continue to move forward in the Marcellus and Utica regions.

Examples include Shell Chemical Appalachia’s purchase of land in Beaver County, Pa., for its proposed, $4-billion ethane “cracker” facility and a decision by PTT Global Chemical and Marubeni Corporation to build a $5.7 billion cracker in Belmont, Ohio, that Nieto said “is still likely to proceed” even though the project’s start date has been pushed back.

“Already it does seem as though there is good news, and we expect there to be more announcements,” Nieto remarked. “I would definitely bank on more announcements, not just crackers but other infrastructure.”

He said Appalachia has seen especially notable developments for the midstream industry: a $3.3 billion backlog of growth projects by EQT Midstream Partners, including the $1.8 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline; Columbia Pipeline’s $2.7 billion Mountaineer Xpress and Gulf Xpress pipelines, which will move 2.7 billion cubic feet (Bcf) per day of Marcellus and Utica production on the Columbia Gulf and Gas transmission lines to the Gulf Coast; and Energy Transfer Partners’ Rover Pipeline, which would move Marcellus and Utica products to the Midwest, Gulf Coast, northeast United States and Canada.

Rover Pipeline was highlighted during the afternoon session of the Utica Midstream Conference when Joey Colton, senior director for commercial optimization for ETP’s Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line system, presented details about the project.

Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners has a total of four business divisions involved in oil and gas transportation and delivery infrastructure, including Sonoco L.P., which Colton said provides about five percent of U.S. retail gas sales and is considered a leading non-refining gas distributor in the U.S.

Midstreaming and the interstate and intrastate movement of NG and oil products account for about 50 percent of the company’s operations, according to Colton.

Review Photo/Kevin Graff Aaron Fleming, of EnLink Midstream, talks at the Utica Midstream Gas and Oil event on Wednesday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

“The Utica is the one play that has grown this year,” stated Nieto, adding, “One of the things my grandpa used to say is, ‘You don’t have to make the most money. You just have to make enough.’”

—Frank Nieto


“The thing we’ve been focusing on is growth, growth, growth. The company has grown at a massive pace,” Colton remarked, noting that about 11 ETP projects are nearing completion or have begun operating.

The company has increased its pipeline system from 200 miles originating in Texas to more than 71,000 miles of pipe, which Colton said move NG and petroleum products from Texas west to California, north to Michigan and south to Florida with nexus points in several states including Ohio.

Colton explained that the Rover Pipeline project has come out of a need to move abundant resources from the Marcellus and Utica shale regions to domestic and global markets.

Estimates are that oil and gas production in these regions will reach more than 40 Bcf per day over the next decade. Colton said although some pipes in the regions have been modified to transport these products out, they are not enough.

“The Marcellus and Utica shales have been identified as a very hot play. Ultimately that’s where we see Rover coming into play,” he stated.

The proposed Rover system will use 713 miles of pipe with an initial forward haul capacity of 3.25 Bcf per day to move shale products through six delivery points, 12 receipt points and 10 compressor stations.

Ohio will host much of the Rover Pipeline’s infrastructure. Seven compressors, as well as all of the system’s supply lateral pipes, will be located in Ohio.

The project will represent a $4.2 billion investment for ETP with $3 billion slated to go to Ohio.

Additionally, after construction is completed, the pipeline will become an asset of ETP’s Midwest Division, which includes Ohio, and a new area office responsible for the pipeline will be opened in Canton, Ohio, by early 2017.

The project includes two major sections: a section from ETP’s Seneca, Ohio, facility northwest to its Defiance, Ohio, facility will be in service by June 2017, while ETP’s Midwest Hub, going from its Defiance facility to Michigan and its Dawn Hub, near Canada, is expected to be completed by November of that same year.

Colton said ETP anticipates that work to build compressor stations and other infrastructure will begin in the last three months of this year, and major pipeline work will begin in the first quarter of 2017 after the company receives a Final Environmental Impact Statement, which is scheduled for issuance on July 29 of this year.

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