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Blue Ridge Mountain Resources Inc. (BRMR) said this week it plans to sell to an undisclosed buyer a 40% working interest in 21,000 net acres in southeast Ohio.

PTT Global Chemical pcl said late Tuesday it has a made a deal with a subsidiary of Daelim Industrial Co. to conduct a feasibility study and secure funding for a multi-billion dollar ethane cracker proposed for southeast Ohio.

The energy industry and environmentalists have come together in a rare display of unity in Ohio to push for passage of a bill that they claim would accelerate ongoing efforts to plug thousands of orphaned oil and natural gas wells.

Rover Pipeline LLC is urging FERC to stay the course and reauthorize work on its Mainline B horizontal directional drill (HDD) under the Tuscarawas River in Ohio, with the company indicating it’s “frustrated by the inaccurate central premise” behind the directive it issued last week.

In his first major policy announcement since joining the Ohio Democratic gubernatorial primary earlier this month, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich said if he’s elected he would put an end to all oil and natural gas drilling in the state and ban underground injection wells often used to dispose of industry waste.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) has requested daily updates on Rover Pipeline LLC’s latest horizontal directional drill (HDD) under the Tuscarawas River, citing “significant concerns” over a potential repeat of a major spill that occurred there last April.

A closely watched project that would be Appalachia’s first to store natural gas liquids (NGL) in underground salt caverns has again been delayed, as it works through a regulatory process that is taking longer than expected in Ohio, where regulators are said to be somewhat unaccustomed to the permit applications.

FERC has denied several motions to stay its August certificate order approving the Nexus Gas Transmission pipeline project that were filed by environmental and citizens’ advocacy groups.

Dominion Energy Transmission Inc. (DETI) has filed at FERC for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct and operate a 120,000 Dth/d expansion that would move more natural gas from Pennsylvania to Ohio to serve growing power generation demand in the Midwest.