See also: WV Surface Owners Rights Organization
>>> From the Marcellus Drilling News, December 8, 2021
There was a healthy number of new permits issued in all three actively drilling Marcellus/Utica states last week. In Pennsylvania, 14 new shale well permits were issued across the state. In Ohio, five new shale permits were issued, four of them to a single driller (Ascent Resources) in a single county (Jefferson). West Virginia came roaring back after getting skunked with no permits two weeks ago. WV issued 10 new shale permits last week with five going to a single well pad in Monongalia County, for Northeast Natural Energy. Also receiving permits were Doddridge, Marion and Marshall bounties.
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Some 30 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Dec 6-12
>>> From the Marcellus Drilling News, December 15, 2021
There was a decent number of new permits issued across all three actively drilling Marcellus/Utica states cumulatively last week. In Pennsylvania, 19 new shale well permits were issued across the state. In Ohio, three new shale permits were issued. West Virginia issued 8 new shale permits last week, for Marshall, Wetzel and Tyler counties.
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Some 32 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Dec 13-19
>>> From the Marcellus Drillng News, December 21, 2021
The Marcellus/Utica region saw 30 new permits to drill shale wells in early December. The week week of December 13 to 19 improved that a bit, to 32. Pennsylvania issued 13 new permits to three drillers for five well pads in four counties. Ohio issued eight new permits to two drillers for three pads in two counties. And West Virginia issued 11 new permits to two drillers for two pads in Tyler County.
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Some 29 New Shale Well Permits Issued for PA-OH-WV Dec 20-Jan 2
From the Marcellus Drilling News, January 5, 2022
This edition of the Marcellus/Utica permits report covers the past two weeks. For the period of December 20 through January 2, there were 29 permits issued to drill new shale wells in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. PA had 16 new permits (most of them located on two well pads), OH had 12 new permits (spread across five well pads), and WV had just one new permit, in Wetzel County. Must be WV DEP took the last two weeks of the year off.
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PA Shale Gas Permits “Back to Normal” in December After Big Dip in November (Edited for content).
From S&P Global Reported in MDN, January 7, 2022
Pennsylvania permits to drill new shale wells hit a 13-year low in November 2021. What about December2021?
The PA permits for December rebounded and were slightly above the number issued in December 2020.
S&P Global Market Intelligence has the story on PA permits for December:
After hitting a 13-year low in November 2021, the number of permits for shale gas wells in Pennsylvania returned to a more normal level.
The 69 permits granted in December 2021 marked a 103% increase month over month and a 6% increase over permitting activity for the same period a year ago, according to Jan. 5 data from the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Pennsylvania shale producers continued their pattern of keeping production low, rather than upping output to chase natural gas futures prices that exceeded $6/MMBtu in October 2021. Although prices began retreating in December, they still were far above the near-record lows of 2020.
Nearly half of the December 2021 permits were pulled by two companies: Coterra Energy Inc., operating in the dry gas window of northeast Pennsylvania, and Range Resources Corp., which operates primarily in the liquids-rich southwestern part of the state. Coterra — the new name of the merged Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. and Cimarex Energy Co. — pulled 16 well permits in December, while Range pulled 15.
Publicly traded drillers accounted for 86% of the permitting activity, and the state’s five largest gas producers — EQT Corp., Chesapeake Energy Corp., Coterra, Range and Southwestern Energy Co. — accounted for 70%.
While the shape of Pennsylvania’s shale play changed little, activity in December 2021 was heaviest in the dry gas northeast of the state, with 41 permits issued for Tioga, Susquehanna and Bradford counties. The liquids-rich counties of Washington and Greene, south of Pittsburgh, saw 18 permits granted, or 26% of the December count.
Nine permits were granted in Tioga County in December, a dramatic shift from no permitting activity the previous month. Spanish major Repsol SA accounted for seven of those permits, with Seneca Resources Corp., the upstream unit of New York gas company National Fuel Gas Co., getting the other two.*
*S&P Global Market Intelligence (Jan 6, 2021) – Pa. shale gas permitting returns to normal levels in December after big dip