Friday, January 23, 2026

The partnership may move Ohio landowners with existing Columbia Gas leases out of limbo.
well rig

Using new tracers, scientists can determine where frack fluid contamination has — or hasn’t — been released.

Ohio's top producing shale wells as of Sept. 2014.

If you want to test the water yourself, decide what you can afford. Those costs can be hundreds, if not thousands of dollars.
completed shale well

In southwestern Pennsylvania, Washington County leads with the highest number of producing wells as of the end of April.
Scales and money

Some legal wrangling has stalled the the first-ever spacing order application for an unconventional shale gas well.