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Understanding Ohio’s shale drilling industry means more than knowing how many rigs are working, where the latest midstream development has been completed, or even how many wells are on line. You can’t understand this or any industry without knowing the people and businesses that manage and participate in it. We hope this edition of Shale magazine gives you a good start or adds to your already growing list of people and companies to watch. Dan Shingler Did we get them all? Can you say Editor “LOL” in print? For the businesses dshingler@crain.com alone, we started with a list of more than 1,300 companies (thank you to the good folks at Ohio University for most of that!) and had to whittle that list down substantially. And we surely did not have space to give all of the people involved in all of the aspects of this industry all of the coverage they deserve. But it’s a start – and we plan to be around to tell you about plenty more of these people and businesses in the months and years to come.

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table of contents winter 2013

PUBLISHER/EDITORIAL DIRECTOR John Campanelli

Power Players 6 Aubrey McClendon / American Energy – Utica 7 Chad Zamarin / Columbia Pipeline Group 8 Frank Tsuru / Momentum-M3 Midstream 10 Rhonda Reda / Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program 10 Linda Woggon / Ohio Chamber of Commerce 12 Tom Stewart / Ohio Oil and Gas Association 12 Dave Hall / Ohio House of Representatives 13 Bill Batchelder / Ohio House of Representatives 14 Bob Chase / Marietta College 17 Bob Downing / Akron Beacon Journal 18 Scott Miller / Ohio University 18 Jim Zehringer / Ohio Department of Natural Resources 20 David Mustine / JobsOhio 21 Jack Shaner / Ohio Environmental Council 22 David Hill / David R. Hill Inc. 22 David Kaminski / Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce 23 Troy Balderson / Ohio House of Representatives 24 Bill Johnson / U.S. House of Representatives

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Still the Man? Aubrey McClendon got the Utica on the map as a major shale region. Now he’s trying to chart a new path for his own success in the play.

founded Chesapeake in 1989, they n Today’s highly divided and languished for most of the 1990s. Internet-driven society, it has But by 2000, two things happened been said you can find any that buoyed the natural gas industry: truth you want. Perhaps no one utilities in California began replacing is a better example of that than Aucoal with natural gas to power electric brey McClendon. plants, and horizontal fracturing for You can find nearly any opinion shale gas — or fracking — became less you could imagine about the man costly and began to be used in Texas. who founded Chesapeake Energy. Mr. McClendon jumped in early To many in the oil and gas industry, and continued to buy property and he is one of the founding fathers behind leases and to invest huge amounts of the nation’s current oil and gas boom capital, even as the glut in the market — the man who believed in taking a his company helped produce drove chance on new drilling methods and, down gas prices. Eventually, however, more than anyone else, proved they those mineral rights and others that could unlock untold riches from the naChesapeake purchased made the comtion’s shale deposits. To environmentalists, he’s still Newscom pany an industry giant — and turned one of fracking’s founding fathers Former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon is taking Mr. McClendon into a bit of a legend. But the legend took a fall, when — but, in their eyes, that makes him a second run at the Utica. Chesapeake and its leader came una villain threatening the nation’s der intense scrutiny for the amount of debt and spending they had engaged clean air and water, rather than a hero of economic development. Even among analysts who have followed Mr. McClendon over the in, including the company’s purchase of Mr. McClendon’s private art and years, some say he is a reckless risk taker who put Chesapeake into a map collection for more than $12 million. On top of that, some investors were not happy that Mr. McClendon saw highly leveraged and vulnerable position by overspending, while others say he still has a Midas touch when it comes to spotting opportunities and his pay skyrocket by about 500% in 2008, to $100 million — the same year the company’s stock lost 60% of its value while its profits dropped by 50%. taking the risks necessary to capitalize on them. It was not a huge surprise that Mr. McClendon lost the helm of his comBut, no matter what you think of the man, he is probably more responsible than any other person for putting the Utica Shale on the nation’s oil and gas pany. Given the turmoil — and because Mr. McClendon remains a bilmap and spurring billions of dollars in investments that already have been lionaire — some might expect the titan to shrink a bit, perhaps retire or at made in and announced for Ohio. He is the man who famously said in 2011 least fade from view. Far from it. The ink was hardly dry on Mr. McClendon’s separation that the Utica Shale would be “the biggest thing economically to hit Ohio since maybe the plow” — as he and his company at the time were in the agreement when he announced in August that he was forming a new energy company: American Energy - Utica. process of investing more than $2 billion in Ohio mineral rights. Guess where that company intends to invest? To some, Mr. McClendon’s bold claims and investments were not a big And it is apparently hasn’t had trouble raising capital, either. In September, surprise, even if they could not have foreseen exactly where he would make them. Mr. McClendon is and always has been a skilled landman first and American Energy - Utica announced it had secured $1.7 billion in financing foremost. While Chesapeake had become the nation’s second-largest pro- to buy up mineral rights, make other investments and, ultimately, become a ducer of natural gas, Mr. McClendon was always most famous for spotting major producer in Ohio’s shale region, right alongside Chesapeake. In addition, the new company already has signed agreements with mineral rights that were selling for less than they would later be worth. Indeed, Mr. McClendon started his career not as a wildcatter, but as a midstream developers, including M3-Momentum Midstream, which will landman in Oklahoma and Texas. He also didn’t begin it as a pauper. Mr. gather and process gas from American Energy - Utica once it is produced. Many think it’s a good thing Mr. McClendon, who still works from OklaMcClendon came from old money — his great uncle, Robert Kerr, was the founder of Kerr-McGee Energy and was governor of Oklahoma (Mr. homa, is going to be active in the Utica. After all, they say, he could have chosen to focus on any of the nation’s shale play, so it must say something about the McClendon’s middle name is Kerr). He graduated from Duke University with a major in history, not engineering Utica that he chose it. He apparently believes the estimates of the shale’s recovor geology. At the school, he met his future wife, Katie Upton, (not that Kate ery resources or the amount paid for mineral rights here, or both, are too low. Time will tell if his bet is a good one. But, one thing’s for sure — everyUpton, but she is a relative by marriage), whose family started the appliance giant Whirlpool Corp. Still a Duke supporter, Mr. McClendon has donated more one is watching to see what the father of the Utica does next. Including us. than $16 million to the university, which has a building named in his honor. — Dan McGraw & Dan Shingler Not that there were no struggles. When Mr. McClendon and his partners

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Shale Columbia! Chad Zamarin is turning pipelines around and turning the central Utica region into a producing play.

that’s driving its appetite for further investment, n the northern and central portions of the Mr. Zamarin said. Utica shale play, Chad Zamarin is the man “Just in this particular midstream project making all the right connections. … we’ll be investing $400 million in this first Mr. Zamarin, chief operating officer of phase,” he said. “We view the potential of that NiSource Midstream’s Columbia Pipeline Group investment, over the next three or five years, of in Houston, is in charge of running new gathering growing to more than $1 billion.” lines to well pads and turning Columbia’s existing As a result, Mr. Zamarin visits Ohio at least infrastructure into transport pipeline and processa couple times a month, even if means leaving plants that will get the play’s gas to market. ing Houston’s best season, winter, to do it. But All told, Columbia has 25,000 miles of pipethat’s OK, he said; as a former Chicagoan, he’s line in Ohio, Mr. Zamarin says. Most of that, used to the cold. Indeed, he said it’s good for though, is the company’s distribution system his line of work, as frozen ground is easier to and won’t be part of its midstream pipelines. work in than mud. “Our midstream business is a relatively new Mr. Zamarin grew up around the steel mills component,” Mr. Zamarin said. “In our midColumbia Pipeline Group of western Indiana and majored in metallurgical stream portfolio in Ohio, we’re currently investMidstream developer Chad Zamarin is engineering at Purdue. But the pipeline industry ing in a system we call the Pennant Midstream making pipelines run backwards, thanks to was doing more hiring than the steel mills were, System … that consists of 60 miles of new gath- Ohio’s recent gas production. and in the late 1990s, Mr. Zamarin moved to ering lines that are being built and a 200 million Houston. The first part of his career was spent with companies such as Duke (cubic feet per day) gas processing plant that’s being built as well.” That plant, in Mahoning County’s Springfield Township, will be fully Energy, where he helped design and build new, “greenfield” pipelines. But today, he focuses more on adapting existing systems, like Columoperational before the end of the year, Mr. Zamarin said. But it won’t be bia’s, to serve as pipelines and gathering systems in the Utica and Marceldone growing. He predicts NiSource will make further investments in gathering sys- lus plays. He likes the work, including its many challenges, and enjoys getting back to the Midwest regularly. tems and processing plants, with no problem finding the gas it needs. Not that he complains about Houston and its warmer weather. The summers Like any midstream company investing hundreds of millions of dollars, NiSource needs to be confident in the drilling to which it will connect its can be brutal, he concedes. But, he adds, “I’ve never had to shovel humidity.” But at least part of his heart is still in the Midwest. lines, and it works closely with drillers to get the data it needs. The compa“I’m still a Big 10 fan,” he said – just two days after his beloved Boilny’s major agreement in the Utica is to gather and process gas from Hilcorp Energy Corp. from areas that include parts of Columbiana and Mahoning ermakers had been trounced by Ohio State, 56-0. (Sorry, Mr. Zamarin, we couldn’t resist.) counties in Ohio, and Mercer and Lawrence counties in Pennsylvania. — Dan Shingler The company likes what it sees in the Utica, as well as the Marcellus, and

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1995, helped the Southern Ute Indian tribe rank Tsuru might know more form and run Red Cedar Gathering Co., a about the potential and future demidstream company, to handleoil and gas velopment of the Utica Shale than production on tribal lands. It was followed any other person on Earth — and in 2002 by Aka Energy, another midstream he also might be the man most affecting the company formed by the Southern Ute. pace and direction of that development. The midstream business is a bit more As CEO of Momentum-M3 Midstream, predictable and a bit less wild than the the largest developer of natural gas processexploration and production business, and ing plants and other midstream infrastrucMr. Tsuru says that suits him fine. ture in the play, Mr. Tsuru and his company “I’ve been on both sides … I really enjoy get to see data from most of the big drillers, the midstream,” Mr. Tsuru said. “I enjoy it which need the infrastructure to get their probably more than the E&P (exploration products to market. The midstream develand production), though the E&P side has a opers sign nondisclosure agreements to gain Hal Stata Productions bit more of the wildcat/gambler element to it.” access to data that the drillers do not even Frank Tsuru and Momentum-M3 Midstream But there are similarities between the share among themselves, so they often have are investing billions in the Utica’s midstream exploration and midstream sides of the oil the best overall view of early well results infrastructure. and gas business. While producers try to and geological discoveries. They need that data in order to invest vast sums of money, reaching into the billions of dol- pick the best well locations based on the best geological data they can find, midstream developers must pick the best gas and oil fields in which lars, with any degree of confidence. Mr. Tsuru has seen enough to convince him and his company to charge to invest based on their own data-gathering abilities. “It’s important not only to be in the best plays, but you have to be in the ahead in developing the first big midstream processing plants for Ohio’s new shale gas, with major construction already under way near Scio, core of the best plays,” Mr. Tsuru said. So far, M3 has been able to find the sweet spots. It began as a fairKensington and Cadiz and more about to start near Leesville Lake. M3 already was processing 200 million cubic feet of gas a day in July and will ly small player working in and around Durango, Colo., and expanded add another 200 million-per-day in capacity in December, with a similar through more than a half-dozen shale plays around the country until it arrived in the Utica as one of largest companies in the midstream business. expansion set to come on line in December and April. The Utica could have done far worse than to end up with Mr. Tsuru as one Mr. Tsuru manages most of the efforts from his headquarters in Houston, but he’s no stranger to the Midwest. Not only has he made numerous of the critical midstream executives to lead its development. Besides his trips to the Utica — and even to Northeast Ohio to discuss the shale play track record of success, Mr. Tsuru is a big backer of the play and an eloquent communicator of its potential. He can explain billions of dollars in complex — but he is a Midwesterner himself. A native of Chicago, Mr. Tsuru is one of two children raised by his infrastructure projects in ways even lay people understand, and he keeps aufirst-generation Japanese-Americans parents. His grandparents came to diences rapt when he explains why the wet gas of the Utica might be some the United States in the 1930s, and they and Mr. Tsuru’s parents endured of the most profitable hydrocarbons coming out of the ground anywhere. If there is any doubt as to the importance of M3’s Ohio developments, forced detention in the infamous internment camps of World War II. They consider that in October Gov. John Kasich was on hand, with Mr. Tsuru, left with $20 and a bus ticket to Chicago, Mr. Tsuru said. In spite of the ignominy suffered by his parents, their young son went to announce the company’s latest expansion plans in Ohio. At the same time, Mr. Tsuru can count among his friends both energy comon to live what many would say is the epitome of the American dream. Mr. Tsuru left Chicago for the University of Kansas to study petroleum pany executives and environmental conservationists. So, those who want to engineering at a time when the United States was coming to grips with the understand the Utica might do well to watch Mr. Tsuru and his company. So far, M3’s development has centered around Columbiana, Harrison notion that it no longer controlled its own destiny with regards to energy, and Carroll counties, and most observers say that’s the region that will see especially oil, and already had experienced its first fuel shortages. “We were going to run out of fossil fuels,” Mr. Tsuru said with a chuckle the most early drilling activity. Mr. Tsuru says his company will spend $1 billion on its existing Utica projas he recalled the prevailing thinking of the time. “Things have changed ects. Those probably won’t be its last investments here, though, and Mr. Tsuru dramatically since then.” Beginning in 1982, he began working for a drilling and production said he expects to continue development work in Ohio for years to come. “I feel very good about where we are,” he said of the results he has seen company, sticking with it when the industry tanked in the mid 1980s and spending the early 1990s with his own small company, producing meth- from Utica drilling so far. Coming to the Utica was a good decision, he said. “We are right now in two of the best plays in North America (the Utica ane from coal-bed deposits. Ultimately, though, Mr. Tsuru decided he’d rather gather and process natu- and Marcellus) and we’re very happy to be where we are,” Mr. Tsuru said. ral gas than go looking for it. So, he sold his production company and, in — Dan Shingler

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Rhonda Reda is the oil and gas industry’s go-to person when it comes to helping folks learn about drilling and influencing public opinion.

n oily duck. That singular, negative image of the oil and gas industry being shown to young children, including her own, was the impetus for Rhonda Reda to devote her energy and talents to making sure there was another side of the energy story being taught in Ohio’s classrooms. Ms. Reda got her start, fresh from college in 1988, at Halwell Co., a small oil and gas producer in Marietta. That job was followed by stints at a couple other small energy companies. Her decision to leave and help start the nonprofit Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program (OOGEEP) in 1997 was difficult, but driven by what she was experiencing as a mother of two elementary students. “I had a son in kindergarten and a daughter in second grade and they had somebody come into the classroom to talk to them about oil and gas and all they saw was this oily duck, and at the end of the day, I was very angered because that is what my kids thought I did for a living,” Ms. Reda said. So she took that passion and joined forces with others in the industry to create OOGEEP, a sister organization to the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, where she had been vice president of internal affairs and public information for more than a decade. “When we created this program, initially, there was a big concern within the industry because of the fact that we were losing several generations of kids (who were not) pursuing careers in the oil and gas industry,” Ms. Reda said. “What we started to do was take a look at the curriculum that was being offered in schools — specifically science — and what we found is that, then and today, in Ohio and across the U.S., we are really losing when it comes to kids entering STEM careers (science, technology, engineering and math). And the science curriculum being taught had a real negative spin toward the oil and gas industry,” she said. “It was no wonder why we weren’t seeing new geologists and we weren’t seeing new engineers.” At 50, Ms. Reda is “still considered one of the youngest in the business,” she said. But she works tirelessly to change that situation. Besides involving students and teachers in OOGEEP’s programs in all of Ohio’s 88 counties, the organization has focused heavily on work force development for the past five years and now works with more than 70 Ohio colleges, universities, technical schools and career centers. “That doesn’t happen overnight,” Ms. Reda said. “One of the reasons why Ohio is much further ahead, especially in our infrastructure and our education, is because of the fact that the industry put this program in place 15 years ago. REDA continued on page 11

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Long a champion of business generally, Linda Woggon has become one of fracking’s biggest boosters in the Buckeye State.

inda Woggon has been one of the most visible and outspoken advocates of the economic potential of the Buckeye State’s shale play for the last two and half years. As a registered lobbyist and executive vice president of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Ms. Woggon provides strategic direction for the public policy and political education efforts of the organization. As executive director of the chamber’s Ohio Shale Coalition and also its Partnership for Ohio’s Future, her mission is to educate the public and make sure businesses throughout the state maximize the job creation and economic potential of shale gas production. The coalition, launched in May 2011, is focused on economic development and spreading the word about how the drilling industry and the energy it produces positively will impact Ohio’s economy, she said. “Its purpose is to make sure that we take full advantage and capitalize on every opportunity that is out there that is related to the shale play — and what that means in terms of job creation and economic investment,” she said. “We’re really missing the boat if we don’t understand this broader opportunity for Ohio, so it’s kind of my mission to make sure that everybody understands that.” The coalition’s first order of business was to conduct an economic forecast, and that took Ms. Woggon on a yearlong tour of talks and presentations to communicate its findings. “We thought it was important for a non-oil-and-gas group, one that was representative of the broader business community, to put some numbers out there that could help define for Ohioans what this might mean and define for businesses what investments they might need to make in order to participate in the play,” she said. “That was released in February 2012, and it got a lot of attention and press. For a year after that, I traveled all over the state talking about it and trying to help business, in particular, understand what this might mean, especially in the western part of our state where many of the businesses in the supply chain are located.” A self-described workaholic, Ms. Woggon grew up in Toledo and graduated from the University of Toledo with a bachelor’s degree in political science and minor in economics. Then she earned a degree from the UT’s College of Law. “I got bitten by the political bug when I was younger and got very involved in politics, which led ultimately to my involvement in government affairs and becoming a lobbyist,” she said. “My career is very meaningful to me and a big part of my life because it’s so interesting and so varied. I love what I do and I love being an advocate for the business community, because that’s where the jobs are created and no one can thrive without a good-paying job.” WOGGON continued on page 11

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year we gave out over 40 scholarships around the state, again funded by the industry, to Ohio residents or those attending an Ohio school,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It gives us a better chance that they will hopefully stay in the state of Ohio and pursue a career. As the industry continues to expand in the state of Ohio what we are going to have is very qualified Ohio workers coming into many of these jobs.â&#x20AC;? Although she majored in business and minored in accounting at Ohio University, Ms. Reda says she has always had a love for science. One of six kids, she worked two full-time jobs to put herself through school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My first job was working in the banking business in Dayton during the savings and loan crisis,â&#x20AC;? Ms. Reda said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My husI was taken out band worked in that area as well and we got transferred to a town on my first called Marietta.â&#x20AC;? drilling rig and It was there, in southeastern I just absolutely Ohio, that she was introduced to the oil and gas industry. fell in love with â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was one of those people who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know that the state of Ohio the industry, had any oil and gas in it,â&#x20AC;? she said. fell in love with â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was taken out on my first drilling rig and I just absolutely fell the science in love with the industry, fell in love with the science and frankly and frankly in love with the people. They fell in love with fell donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work 9-to-5. They work 365 days a year and they work very, the people. very hard.â&#x20AC;? Ms. Reda isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t home much, either. She is an active member of many industry associations RHONDA REDA and recently served on the White House Task Force on Energy Education. She has received numerous state and national awards for OOGEEPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts, including from peers in the industry and the educational community. Last year she gave more than 200 public presentations and this year, close to 150. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A big part of my job right now has been trying to present and explain factual information and explain the science behind our industry, which is very technical in nature,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some of the technology that we are deploying today is only second to NASA. I feel very honored to represent this industry.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Chrissy Kadleck

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Prior to joining the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and moving to Columbus 18 years ago, she practiced environmental law with a large Toledo law firm and served as government affairs director with the Toledo Area Chamber of Commerce, where she worked on legislation at the city and state levels. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My environmental law background helps me understand a lot of what is going on with respect to oil and gas drillings,â&#x20AC;? Ms. Woggon said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Utica shale play has the potential to be a game changer for Ohioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economy and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because we are going to see billions invested by the oil and gas companies. It is going to affect every single industry in this state as it takes off.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Chrissy Kadleck

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OOGA leader Tom Stewart is trying to guide Ohio’s new industry, and the rest of the state, to economic success.

ydraulic fracturing is the reason Tom Stewart lives in Ohio. Even though he was only four years old, he still remembers the trip to the Buckeye State in 1955. His father, an oil and gas producer, had been encouraged to move back to Ohio by his brothers and his contacts at Halliburton who said there were great wells being drilled into the Clinton sandstone by way of revolutionary process called hydraulic fracturing. “People think it’s so new and exotic but they’ve been fracking wells for 60 years,” says Mr. Stewart, whose family heritage extends back to the original oil booms of western Pennsylvania and southeastern Ohio. “People to love to say that everybody hates the oil and gas industry but it is a quintessentially entrepreneurial American industry driven by American ideas and American values,” he said. “The one thing that the oil and gas industry has is a lot of romance. I’ve found even when I go and do talks and meet with people who for the most part have troubles with the oil and gas, they are still fascinated by it.” Prior to joining the Ohio Oil and Gas Association as its elected executive vice president and CEO in September 1991, Mr. Stewart had 15 years of formal experience in the oil and gas industry as a producer and provider of contract drilling services. He is the third generation of his family to engage in exploration, development and production of crude oil and natural gas. “Ohio has a long, deep heritage of oil and gas. It has been an important industry since about 1860. There have been 260,000 wells drilled in this state, making it one of the most heavily drilled states in the union,” he said. “The industry is very near and dear to me and it’s exciting to be a part of it. I’ve always been drawn to it.” His grandfather was a drilling contractor at the turn of the century who migrated to Ohio from Butler County, Pa., following one oil boom to the next. Six of his eight sons went into the oil business, including Mr. Stewart’s father. Those sons established oil concerns in Illinois, Michigan, Kansas and Ohio with interests in other oil-producing states such as Texas. “My grandfather’s brother migrated at about the same time to east Texas when the Texas field got discovered and helped form Magnolia Pipeline Co., which built the initial pipeline to service the east Ohio fields,” Mr. Stewart said. His own father moved from Illinois and located in Lancaster, Ohio, 10 miles from Bremen in Fairfield County, where Mr. Stewart lived as a boy. A lover of history, Mr. Stewart majored in the subject at Valparaiso University before returning to Ohio in 1974 and officially joining his father’s oil business. “I started out tending wells and eventually pulled together enough money to buy my own drilling rig and then went into production myself and managed my father’s production (company), Stewart Drilling,” he said. STEWART continued on page 16

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State Rep. Dave Hall says shale gas can bring something even more important than jobs to Eastern Ohio – Hope.

tate Rep. Dave Hall might prove to be an important legislator when it comes to shale gas and oil drilling, and he appears to be a proponent of the industry. The Millersburg Republican resides on the edge of the Utica’s hot spot and represents a district that includes all of Ashland County, as well as portions of Medina and Holmes counties. Perhaps more importantly, he also chairs the State Assembly’s influential Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee, which holds sway on issues affecting drilling, especially in Ohio’s rural areas. Rep. Hall has gone to bat supporting shale drilling, including last February when he penned a piece for the industry group Energy in Depth Ohio, entitled “Shale can restore Ohio’s hope.” In the column, Rep. Hall noted how shale drilling already is having positive economic impacts in eastern Ohio, including providing work on pipelines and processing plants, with trucking companies and even at the new V&M Star steel mill in Youngstown. “Over the past six months, I’ve traveled across eastern Ohio sharing my knowledge on the benefits of oil and natural gas development with folks along the way. I’ve presented at more than 125 meetings, where I’ve discussed this emerging opportunity with unemployed workers, college students, young families, senior citizens, and many others,” Rep.Hall wrote. He continued, “We’re witnessing the restoration of optimism. It’s clear that energy production is renewing hope across the Appalachian region, but that feeling is spreading to other areas in Ohio as well.” Not that Rep. Hall is a yes-man for the industry or opposed to environmental protection measures. He previously served as the district director for Holmes County Parks and, in September, he was named a “Guardian of Public Health” by the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners for his advocacy efforts on behalf of local public health during the budget process. Even in his piece advocating for drilling, Rep. Hall noted that protecting Ohio’s citizens and natural resources must come first. “Let me be clear: my top priority is public safety,” he wrote in the Energy in Depth Ohio column. “My office is continuing to work with state lawmakers and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to draft a bill that will give public safety officials the tools they need to protect Ohio’s water and air.” — Dan Shingler

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ill Batchelder is arguably Ohio’s most powerful state legislator — and probably its most powerful House speaker since Democrat Vern Riffe died holding the office in 1997. That’s a good thing for drillers here because, recently at least, Rep. Batchelder, a Republican, has been a friend of the oil and gas industry. Rep. Batchelder is viewed that way primarily because he changed his position on Gov. John’s Kasich proposal to increase taxes on oil and gas production in Ohio. And it’s probably no coincidence that since Rep. Batchelder in March withdrew his support for the higher taxes, the issue has not been much talked about in political circles. His backing, however, required what the political watchdog group PolitiFact Ohio termed “a full flop.” As recently as December of last year, it appeared Rep. Batchelder and the state Republicans he leads would back the tax, as he declared, “I don’t think there’s any question we ultimately will support it.” Marietta College But after attending the Ohio Oil and Gas Association’s three-day winter meetings in March, Rep Batchelder turned faster than a horizontal drill bit and called Gov. Kasich’s proposal “nonsense” and “a big mistake.” Whether his support of the industry holds remains to be seen — and might depend upon how the oil and gas industry performs in Ohio and whether it lives up to its promises. Though a staunch Republican, Rep. Batchelder does not have a history of allowing partisan politics to get in the way of the state’s interests. He is famous for working with Democrats such as former Ohio Gov. Richard Celeste, who credited Rep. Batchelder with helping him to manage the state’s savings and loan crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But he has been careful, as he himself has pointed out, not to do or support measures that would hurt the state’s economy or its ability to create jobs. A resident of Medina, Rep. Batchelder has seen firsthand how the oil and gas industry can go from full throttle to idle, and he appears not to want to do anything that would take a foot off the gas. Medina, he has pointed out in public meetings, supposedly was going to be a hot area for drilling, but wells did not produce the oil that drillers had hoped for and that put the brakes on activity in and around Medina County.

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Man in the Know Bob Chase has been churning out petroleum engineers for decades at Marietta College, but he doesn’t have to send them far to look for work these days.

is the guy that we really want for the r. Bob Chase has mined job,” he said. “They came back and what many would call a made the offer I couldn’t refuse. It’s charmed career in the oil been a great experience and a great and gas industry. place to live and work. I’ve had ofIt all started in 1968 with a $900 fers to go to numerous other huge annual scholarship offer from Pennprograms across the country, includsylvania State University to study ing my alma mater, Penn State, but petroleum engineering. Back then, I’ve turned them all down.” tuition was only $200 a quarter, so Dr. Chase has built Marietta’s prohe made money on the deal. This gram into one of largest in the counattractive scholarship came the day try. It currently ranks ninth out of 17 after another offer, also from Penn petroleum engineering programs in State, to study mining engineering. the United States. “Mining engineering had no ap“The program is vibrant right peal to me because I grew up in MARIETTA COLLEGE now; we have over 350 majors in the Scranton, Pennsylvania, and I had Chase leads the ninth largest petroleum engineering program program and we have actually had to relatives who died of black lung in the country and the only one found at a small private liberal limit the students in the program. We disease,” said Dr. Chase, who is in arts college. take 90 students per class, that’s our his 38th year of teaching. “The petroleum engineering offer intrigued me, so I took that offer, and that was cap,” he said. That number includes 40 international students, including an impressive number from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and China. how I got into that field.” “This year we probably turned away 300 students who wanted to get into He went on to earn bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in petrothe program,” Dr. Chase said. “The quality of our graduates has just continleum and natural gas engineering — all from Penn State. “You could see the work that you were doing was important, and back ued to increase, especially over the last five years with the shale boom here then in the 70s we were just starting to come under the iron fist of OPEC. in the Appalachian Basin. We get great kids and turn out great engineers.” His primary devotion has been to undergraduate petroleum engineering We had energy shortages. It was not an overcrowded field and there was a high demand for students, so it was really a good time to come into the education and educating the next generation of leaders in the industry. “I’ve got some former students who are now at the highest level in comindustry,” said Dr. Chase, who embarked on his master’s degree with the panies around the country. It’s very rewarding to see your kids, your stugoal of devoting his career to research. His professor at the time suggested that he consider pursuing a career dents, have success like that,” he said. His own two sons are both in oil industry. One works for Ken Miller in teaching as well. “He said he thought I had a skill set that lent itself to that and I’d be able Supply in Marietta and the other works for Chevron as a drilling engineer in the Gulf of Mexico. to do research and at the same time, teach,” he said. “The whole family is in the business now,” Dr. Chase said. So in 1976, Dr. Chase put his name in for an opening for an assistant Throughout the past three-and-a-half decades Dr. Chase has served as a professorship at West Virginia University and got the job. He quickly fell in love with the position, the area of Morgantown, and his research work consultant to Columbia Gas, NiSource, Dominion Resources, EQT, Cabot Oil and Gas, and Consol Energy/CNX/Cabot Oil and Gas, and Consol Enwith the U.S. Department of Energy. It wasn’t long before his work caught the attention of other colleges and ergy/CNX. He has published many technical papers in the areas of natuuniversities. In 1978 Marietta College contacted him about a job opening for ral gas engineering and well testing. About 15 years ago, he developed a method for predicting the ability of a gas well to produce that has been head of the department of petroleum engineering and geology. He was 27. “At the time I thought I was too young for the position because all de- incorporated into software developed by a major energy company. These days, some of Dr. Chase’s students don’t go far after graduating. partment heads around the country were old farts like I am now — you “Just five years ago, 95% of my students would leave the area. Now it’s know, 60 years old,” he said with a chuckle. “I came over and interviewed for the job not thinking I even had a chance for it, and much to my surprise more like 30% will stay in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia with great jobs,” he said. they offered it to me.” “This is absolutely the most exciting time because the wells that are He turned down the position. And the counter offer. But the third offer being drilled are world- class wells. They are not anything like we have sealed the deal. “Finally, half a dozen students from Marietta came over and they re- drilled here in Ohio in the past,” he said. “This is big-time development cruited me. They put a hard sell on me about why they really wanted me to and it is going to create a lot of excellent jobs in the state.” — Chrissy Kadleck come and take the position, and they went back and told the president this

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His father worked the oil fields until his “dying days,” Mr. Stewart said, adding that he has never forgotten the words of advice his dad gave him as a boy. “I was very young and we were driving around. He was explaining the lay of the ground to me and he told me something I’ll never ever forget,” he said. “He said ‘Tom, 95 percent of the oil and gas business is reputation, 5 percent is finding oil. Finding oil is very important, but your reputation is gold. If you have your reputation, then you will succeed in this business.’ And I believe that that’s true.” Mr. Stewart has many fond memories as young man in the oil business — a time when some of his best deals were done on a handshake and not on a 20-page contract. By the mid 1980s, he was becoming more Finding oil politically involved with Ohio Oil and Gas is very Association and was active on technical and legislative committee. When the then-head important, of the organization decided to retire, Mr. Stewart was tapped as the replacement. but your Flash forward 22 years and Ohio is deep reputation into a transformative shale play that is attracting significant oil and gas companies is gold. that are used to wielding large amounts of investment capital. “It’s all fundamentally impacting Ohio in what I think is a very positive way,” Mr. StewTOM STEWART art said. “It’s changing everything about how we think about energy policy and access to affordable and efficient energy resources. We’re now talking about the United States now overtaking Saudia Arabia in oil production.” He said the shale energy not only has changed the character of the industry, it has resulted in huge economic benefits, primarily in eastern Ohio. It also has changed the composition of his membership. “I never thought we’d have major integrated oil and gas companies such as Shell, Chevron, BP, and Chesapeake as members,” he said. His association has grown to 3,300 members, up from around 1,500 before the shale development started. “We’ve always taken pride, during my tenure, in our engagement on public policy and government affairs,” Mr. Stewart said. “I’ve always believed that the best thing that I can do for my members at the OOGA is to be an effective advocate for their concerns.”

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Perhaps because of that experience, Rep. Batchelder has eschewed claims that drillers will focus on Ohio, regardless of the state’s tax climate. Politically, it’s hard to argue with a man who knows the ins and outs of state politics like almost no one else; as a legislator, this is hardly Rep. Batchelder’s first rodeo. He returned to the Ohio House in 2007, but previously served as a state representative for 30 years. He is the second-longest serving representative in the House. He also knows the law not only as a legislator, but as a lawyer and teacher. He spent 31 years practicing at the Williams and Batchelder Law Firm in Medina while serving as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Akron Law School and as an adjunct professor at Cleveland State University Levin College of Urban Affairs. Rep. Batchelder also served as a judge for the Medina County Common Pleas Court, a judge on the Ninth District Court of Appeals from 1999 to 2005, and as a presiding judge on the same court of appeals from 2000 to 2001. — Dan Shingler

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Beacon Journal reporter Bob Downing has a hit on his hands with coverage of the Utica Shale, not to mention the hits he’s pulling in for the paper’s website.

he owner and editors of the Akron Beacon Journal discovered a rather startling fact this past year while counting their numbers. Mainly, which blogs on their website got the most traffic. Ranking No. 1 was pretty obvious — the blog for Cleveland Browns football racks up the most hits from people in this is football-crazy part of Ohio. But No. 2 at the ABJ? That would be the Ohio Utica Shale blog, written mostly by reporter Bob Downing and fast becoming a daily stop for those in the energy industry and those who are merely interested in the latest news of the fracked. For Mr. Downing, the work has been refreshing, but also difficult. “The energy drilling companies have never been very public with their information, and that is just the nature of their business, keeping their information to themselves so that they can act on their plans without their competitors knowing what they are doing,” he said. “And when we started covering issues in the Utica shale, a lot of the gas drilling companies would put out press releases and (reporters would) start asking questions and they were not used to that and they wouldn’t answer any questions,” Mr. Downing said. But he has persevered, walking the fine line that fills his coverage with objectivity and not favoritism for the energy companies or the environmentalists who oppose drilling. “Sometimes both sides don’t like us, but that means we are covering things right,” Mr. Downing said. “And I think now we have earned the respect from all sides because they know we work very hard on the drilling issues.” The Ohio Utica Shale blog, started in December 2011, has now taken on a life of its own. In 2012, Mr. Downing and a few other contributors posted about 1,500 stories on the blog, and this year, that number should hit around 2,500. The site gets 10,000 to 17,000 page views every day, and was named the “2012 Top News Blog” in Ohio by The Society of Professional Journalists.

One reason Mr. Downing began early in covering the Utica shale region is that he wasn’t previously on the business beat. He was covering public parks systems such as the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and environmental issues when he met with some staff from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources in 2010 and they told him how big they thought the Utica shale might become in Ohio. He started writing about the effect the drilling might have on public park land, but then saw that most of the large media outlets in Ohio couldn’t get their arms around the drilling issues, because they crossed over too many beats. “The small papers in the areas with lots of drilling don’t have the resources to cover all the issues,” he said. “So we (the Beacon Journal) stepped in and we haven’t stopped since.” And the industry has taken notice. “At first people dismissed (the shale blog) as just another one of those daily newspaper reporters who was focused on environmental issues and not much else,” said one energy company communications officer who did not want his name used. “But then we all started to see he was getting a lot of information that we sometimes didn’t know about. Most people in the industry won’t admit this, but everyone goes to that blog every day to see what Bob is up to.” Mr. Downing often wonders who is reading. “It’s funny, because you would think that a subject as specific as shale drilling in eastern Ohio wouldn’t get many readers, but the numbers say we are getting a lot,” he said. “Who they are exactly, I don’t know. But we do know that this is an issue that is bigger than just coverage in the business section. It has all sorts of angles.” Any hopes that the Ohio Utica Shale blog might top the Cleveland Browns blog as No. 1 at the Beacon Journal? “We know that will never happen,” Mr. Downing laughed. “But we’re pretty proud of what we have accomplished, and being No. 2 is pretty good.” — Dan McGraw

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Scott Miller is helping businesses in and near the Utica to connect to the oil and gas industry’s supply chain.

As head of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Jim Zehringer just might be the most powerful person in the state in terms of shale gas drilling.

here might not be any single person who knows more about the Utica shale’s business potential, especially in terms of its Ohio supply chain, than Ohio University’s Scott Miller. Mr. Miller is director of the Consortium for Economics and the Environment, part of the Voinovich School for Leadership and Public Affairs at OU. There, he conducts and directs research on a variety of topics related to all aspects of energy and its impact not just on the natural environment, but on the economic climate as well. When asked what’s so interesting about shale to an academic researcher, Mr. Miller quickly rattles off a list of topics that intrigue him. “What are its economic implications?” he asks. “What are the business implications? We’re also doing research on the housing impacts . . . what are the air quality impacts? In the fall of 2011, Mr. Miller had an idea for a project he hoped would garner federal money while also helping economic development in his home region. He already had seen and studied how wind and other forms of renewable energy could impact a broad array of companies in the region. When he saw Ohio’s shale boom about to kick off, he figured it would be an even bigger phenomenon. So, he successfully pitched the idea of studying the topic and developing a supply chain database of companies in the Utica shale to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which awards grants for projects dealing with rural economies. “We were able to propose to them that, as a topic of rural economic development, shale would be a very interesting topic to study,” Mr. Miller recalls. The study initially was going to encompass only 12 Appalachian counties in the southeastern portion of the state. However, it soon became apparent there were many more counties involved in the shale industry’s supply chain than were seeing actual drilling within their borders. Things took off pretty rapidly from there — today, OU’s shale supply chain database has nearly 1,500 companies listed in three states. Its listed companies are involved in everything from oilfield services to civil engineering and trucking. (In the spirit of both disclosure and gratitude, we should note that the bulk of the business directory in this issue was derived from OU’s database.) The list continues to grow, too. Mr. Miller said he was pleasantly surprised at first by the number of companies on the list, but he since has changed his view of just how broadly the Utica is affecting area companies. “In retrospect, I think we were underestimating it,” Mr. Miller said. “It’s just a vast industry and there are so many derivatives that come out of this commodity.” Mr. Miller takes a holistic view of the Utica shale, something he said he’s always tried to apply to most things in life, energy-related or otherwise. Perhaps it’s the teacher in him. MILLER continued on page 19

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or more than 30 years, Jim Zehringer raised chickens, and later tilapia, on the family farm in his lifelong hometown of Fort Recovery, in western Ohio near the Indiana border. That breeding ground proved to be the foundation for his ascent through a political landscape that included a stint as a county commissioner for Mercer County, an appointment to an open seat to represent the 77th District in the state House of Representatives (he was later elected to a second term), and finally to being tapped by Gov. John Kasich to lead the Department of Agriculture and then the Department of Natural Resources. All in less than 10 years. Today, as head of the one of the state’s most diverse agencies, Mr. Zehringer oversees more than 2,500 employees and the management of more than 640,000 acres, including 74 state parks, 20 state forests, 135 state nature preserves and 140 wildlife areas. The department has jurisdiction over more than 120,000 acres of inland waters, 7,000 miles of streams, 481 miles of the Ohio River and 2.25 million acres of Lake Erie. The 61-year-old farmer by trade became a politician reluctantly, yet he has amassed a resume envied by those who devote their lives to public office. “A good friend of mine pulled into our driveway and asked me to run for county commissioner, and I had absolutely no interest in politics,” he said. “Both my wife, Sharon, and I were involved in our community in different organizations — historical society, Lions Club. The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea.” He ran for and got elected to the commissioner position in 2002 and continued to own and operate the Meiring Poultry and Fish Farm, which was started by his wife’s family in the 1940s. He and his wife took over the business in the 1970s and raised chicks in batches of 300,000 to 400,000 at a time. “Growing up in Fort Recovery, the jobs after school were related to agriculture, which was working for a local elevator or a local farmer with a poultry or livestock operation,” he said. “When I married my high school sweetheart — we just celebrated our 40th anniversary — I thought it would be a good fit to work on this farm and eventually take it over and keep it in the family name. It was very, very important that we keep it in the family, and that’s why we sold the operation to our nephew in 2010.” Mr. Zehringer always has understood the necessity of being a good steward of the land, and his poultry and fish operation received several awards for outstanding environmental practices. As a state representative, Mr. Zehringer took Mr. Kasich on a tour of the agriculture and farms in western Ohio and, after Mr. Kasich became Gov. Kasich, he asked Mr. Zehringer to become the director of the Department of Agriculture in 2010. “I was extremely surprised and honored,” he said. “We knew that it would be more of a commitment and it would mean being in Columbus full time, but I got a lot of support from my family.” ZEHRINGER continued on page 19

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After graduating from Wayne High School north of Dayton, Mr. Miller, now 49, got a degree in secondary science education from Wright State University. For three and a half years he taught at the same high school he had attended — and not the easy stuff, either, but courses in chemistry and physics. From there, he went on to earn a master’s degree in environmental studies at OU. When OU’s Voinovich School formed the Consortium for Economics and the Environment, or CE3, in 2005 as a way to involve multiple disciplines in shared and complimentary research, Mr. Miller was in on the ground floor and became its first director. “I turned around to ask who was going to lead that group, and all of the other faculty researchers said, ‘You look like a great candidate,’” he jokes today. CE3 has been involved in far more than shale gas development. It conducts its own and sponsored research into matters dealing with energy and the environment, including things such as water and PCB testing at dismantled nuclear sites and the impact of the wind energy industry on the region. He likes the work, Mr. Miller said, because it allows him and his students — more than 125 are involved in CE3’s research — to use their own curiosity and scientific skills to explore how interconnected energy development is with the environment and the economy. There are always trade-offs and unforeseen effects and CE3 tries to anticipate some of them — such as the impact of shale development on the region’s housing stock. And working on the research — especially sponsored research where the school is accountable to a monetary source — prepares students for other jobs later. — Dan Shingler

In the midst of the shale oil and gas boom, Mr. Zehringer was appointed — again by Gov. Kasich — to be director of ODNR, which is responsible for regulating the industry through its Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management. This growing division supervises the construction of new wells, inspection of wells and the proper plugging of abandoned and non-producing wells. It also regulates the disposal of waste related to the drilling process. “This governor has said it many, many times: Ohio is open for business, but not at the expense of our environment or the health of our citizens,” said Mr. Zehringer, who assumed the post at ODNR in November 2011. Enter Senate Bill 315. Gov. Kasich signed this landmark oil and gas regulatory legislation into law in June 2012, creating one of the nation’s toughest regulatory frameworks for overseeing the new technologies that allow for the exploration of natural gas in deep shale rock formations. “SB 315 really gave us the authority to be tough but fair on the oil and gas industry,” Mr. Zehringer said, adding that there have been 1,000 new well permits and more than 600 wells drilled since its passage. “We’re real happy with those numbers,” he said. “Some of the well production that we are seeing and that are being reported are very, very impressive. One well recently tested is producing more than 8,800 barrels of oil equivalent a day. The numbers are staggering, especially, when you look at the conventional industry. It would take (an old-style vertical well) a year to produce what some of these horizontal wells are producing a day.” In the meantime, Mr. Zehringer has been busy staffing up. ODNR has hired additional oil and gas inspectors, which now total more than 50, to properly oversee and regulate the booming development. — Chrissy Kadleck

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Job Shopper

David Mustine wants the Utica to not only succeed, but to create as many jobs for Ohioans as possible in the process.

business climate. We are aggreshere is no doubt that job sively competing with other states growth in the energy infor these commitments.” dustry is a key issue on the Mr. Mustine’s background is quite minds of many Ohioans, solid in the energy industry. He has but given how many factors impact served as director of the Ohio Departthe business — market prices, capiment of Natural Resources and prior tal investments, government energy to that worked 16 years at American policies among them — how and Electric Power, both within its finanwhen that job growth hits home is cial planning group and as a senior up for debate. vice president for business planning One of the key players tasked with and services. Prior to joining AEP, Mr. creating growth from shale energy Mustine was an investment manager drilling is David Mustine, managfor the energy division of Bechtel Ining director for energy, polymers vestments Inc. in Houston, specializand chemicals for the JobsOhio proing in oil and gas joint ventures. gram. About three years ago, Gov. But, while few question Mr. MusJohn Kasich started JobsOhio as a tine’s energy chops, there is critiway to transfer the state’s business Dan Shingler cism that, rather than streamlining development function from public David Mustine’s role in the Utica is to ensure that Ohio’s the process, JobsOhio has added anstate agencies to a program with a companies, workers and economy all benefit from shale gas other layer of bureaucracy to busipublic/private composition. That ap- drilling. ness development efforts in the state. proach has come under fire in many And that is part of the challenge facing Mr. Mustine and JobsOhio when circles, most notably because JobsOhio is not regulated by open records dealing with jobs in the energy industry. The state still operates many laws as it is not a public agency. Trying to get information on JobsOhio can be difficult. Mr. Mustine agencies that are involved with energy industry job growth: the Ohio Deoften does not respond to interview requests and only gave a brief email velopment Services Agency and its Ohio Third Frontier technology proresponse to this publication when asked about plans by JobsOhio to in- gram; state higher education’s Ohio Energy Pathways; the Ohio Business Gateway; the Ohio Incumbent Workforce Training Voucher Program; and crease employment in the energy industry. “Our goal at JobsOhio is to capture as much of the value chain in the oil other local and regional job training programs. It is unclear how JobsOhio is working with the other state agencies, or and gas industry as possible for Ohio,” Mr. Mustine wrote. “This includes midstream and downstream investments such as processors, fractionation if there is some sort of gatekeeping function that keeps all the programs facilities, gas-fired power generation and chemical and polymer plants moving in the same direction and not duplicating services. Given that that use feedstocks produced from natural gas liquids. Many factors go 2014 is going to be an election year for Ohio governor, the performance into the decision of where to expand production facilities, including ac- of JobsOhio and the state agencies might come under even more scrutiny. In its 2012 annual report, JobsOhio details energy industry numbers cess to customers, price and availability of feedstocks, supply chain and across the state, including the number of jobs in the industry (40,164), the gross state product from energy ($17.5 billion), and the average wage per job ($80,277). But JobsOhio does not delineate which jobs resulted from JobsOhio’s efforts. It only says that “the JobsOhio network identified a number of shale supply chain companies that are good candidates to locate facilities in Ohio. Multiple trips were made to Houston, including one led by the governor, to engage candidate companies.” More than a few eyes will be watching in the coming election year to see how the energy employment picture plays out in Ohio, and whether the political machinations of an election year make JobsOhio’s work any more transparent. But there is no doubt Mr. Mustine will be in the heart of it all. – Dan McGraw

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Protector OF THE

ENVIRONMENT Jack Shaner is an ‘environmental realist’ who says drilling is bound to happen, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be made safer by Ohio’s legislators and regulators.

ake no mistake about it, Jack Shaner thinks about the environment first and energy production second. Or possibly third, fourth or even later. But that doesn’t make him a so-called “radical environmentalist.” He prefers the term “an environmental realist.” Yes, Mr. Shaner was among the many environmentalists who, before a drill bit was ever sunk into the Utica shale (horizontally, at least), was calling for an outright moratorium on fracking in Ohio — not a permanent one, but one that would allow the issue to be considered further before drilling took place. Today, however, he’s more focused on keeping the good regulations Ohio has in place, seeing that they are fully enforced, and strengthening them. “The shale gas rush is on and our mode now is shifting to strengthening the rules and regulations,” Mr. Shaner said. “It’s clear the reality is, it’s happening and it’s growing.” The deputy director and senior director of legislative and public affairs for the Ohio Environmental Council, Mr. Shaner has spent more than 25 years working on issues related to environmental protection. He has made many contacts among both environmentalists and legislators in the process. He does get heat, he said, from environmentalists who still say “no fracking, no how, no way, not ever,” because some of them feel that Mr. Shaner never should have backed off his calls for a moratorium. But he said that approach likely would only have ensured that the Ohio Environmental Council was left without a voice in the legislative process. “There are good people out there who have seen the excesses of the industry, have gotten a belly full and just want to say ‘no.’ We sympathize with that … but we have to deal in the cold, hard world,” Mr. Shaner said. “That’s where we toil, and we’ll push our reforms as hard as we can.” Mr. Shaner even has praise for some of the steps Ohio has taken thus far. “Both the Strickland and the Kasich teams have strengthened Ohio’s laws, and we credit them for that,” he said. “But we don’t buy into the ballyhoo that Ohio has the toughest laws.” The work is not yet done, Mr. Shaner contends. That’s why the Ohio Environmental Council in September asked the state Legislature to consider the council’s SAFER GAS Act — with SAFER GAS standing for ”Safeguarding Appalachian Families with Environmental Regulation of Gas And Shale.” SHANER continued on page 26

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Gas out, Water in

Canton’s Man

Dave Hill has learned how to make money both by taking stuff out of the ground and by pumping stuff into it.

avid R. Hill has been involved in drilling for a long time. He’s been doing it for more than three decades, first with his father, and in more recent years with a dedicated group of long-time employees. He is hopeful his son, Tyler, and his grandson will be involved in his Byesville energy company someday as well. With horizontal hydraulic fracturing being so new to Ohio, many look to Mr. Hill to help them make sense of the industry as the drilling activity goes through its phases and fits and starts. “I have told people many times that we have gone through the science part of well exploration and determining in a far better way where the activity is,” Mr. Hill said. “We are right now going through the phase when the midstream infrastructure is being built. A lot of that will be happening in the coming year.” He’s also the person many turn to for assurance that this fracking thing is all it’s been cracked up to be. “But that is just the beginning, because (once the infrastructure is built) we will see real well production taking place,” he said. “When that happens, I know we will start seeing all of the other economic development take off — the ancillary businesses, the manufacturing industry growing. It is all very close right now.” Mr. Hill knows of what he speaks. His company, David R. Hill Inc., has drilled more than 300 wells in Ohio and West Virginia during his 33 years with the company. Mr. Hill, 55, attended Marietta College and then Muskingum College, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in geology. He is currently the vice president of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association and is former chairman of the Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program. Mr. Hill has taken pride in his work involving educational programs for all sorts of groups, from teaching firefighters about how to respond to well emergencies to dispelling myths about water injection disposal wells to being in the forefront when answering questions by property owners about drilling leases. “David Hill is proud to be in the oil and gas industry,” said Ohio Oil and Gas Energy Education Program executive director Rhonda Reda. “He likes to share that pride with anyone he comes in contact with.” Mr. Hill is especially interested in dispelling what he says are myths about the injection wells that are used to dispose of driller’s wastewater. He operates several of them, and understands the geology involved. It’s just not possible, he said, for an injection well to create a crack that would allow wastewater to reach the surface, through thousands of feet of rock and through six layers of steel tubing and concrete surrounding the well head at the surface. Pressure sensors also would give well operators notice before that happened, he said. HILL continued on page 26

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Dave Kaminski helped make Canton the ‘Utica Capital’ and also the home to its biggest driller so far.

ave Kaminski joined the Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce in 2008 to work on its educational programs and governmental affairs. He got to do that for about three years before the Utica Shale all but took over his job. “I spend about 60% to 75% of my time on it now,” Mr. Kaminski said. Not that he’s complaining. The veteran journalist who spent 33 years with The (Canton) Repository, including 10 years as its editor, has been in Canton since 1974. In that time, he has seen the town suffer economically like much of the rest of Northeast Ohio, and he’s seen very positive events such as Timken Co.’s decision in the 1980s to invest in a new steel mill in town. But he’s never seen anything like the Utica, he says. “I’ve got to believe it’s the most significant thing that’s happened to the economy since I’ve been here,” Mr. Kaminski said. So, while he still handles educational and governmental outreach, Mr. Kaminski these days spends most of his time helping local businesses discover and exploit opportunities presented by shale drilling and working with new companies seeking to establish a presence near the play. Those efforts have included helping to market Canton under the moniker “The Utica Capital” and also working with energy giant Chesapeake Energy, first to locate its temporary Utica headquarters in Canton, and later to find its permanent local headquarters about two miles outside the city limits to the east. “We quickly realized this could mean an awful lot to existing businesses,” Mr. Kaminski said of the Utica’s promise and of Chesapeake’s Canton presence. “And I can tell you about probably half a dozen surveying and consulting companies who said, ‘That’s why we need to be in Canton.’” Like a lot of local people, Mr. Kaminski has learned a lot about the oil and gas industry since early 2011, when the Utica first became big blip on his chamber’s radar screen. “One of the funniest things about the oil and gas business is to realize how significant it’s been in this area for so many years — people just weren’t paying attention to it,” Mr. Kaminski said. “In 33 years at The Repository, not only was vertical oil and gas not ever a big business story for us, but neither was drilling for oil and gas a big environmental story.” Needless to say, things have changed and today nearly everyone, from business people to school teachers, is paying close attention to the Utica and its impact on their communities and livelihoods. Canton is not in the center of the drilling activity, but Mr. Kaminski said he and other civic leaders realized early on that their city was in the right location and had the right attributes to become a business center for the play. KAMINSKI continued on page 26

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The Chairman

State Sen. Troy Balderson lives in the heart of the Utica and heads a committee with a lot of sway over the play.

s chairman of the Ohio Senate’s Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Troy Balderson of Zanesville likely will play a key role in developing Ohio’s future policies affecting oil and gas. Sen. Balderson is serving in his second General Assembly in the Ohio Senate, representing the 20th District, which encompasses all of Fairfield, Guernsey, Hocking, Morgan, and Muskingum counties as well as portions of Athens and Pickaway counties. It is the largest Senate district in Ohio, geographically. He holds a Senate seat once held by another oil and gas proponent, Jimmy Stewart. Sen. Balderson was appointed to his Senate seat in 2011 to replace Mr. Stewart, who resigned and became president of the Ohio Gas Association. Besides his committee leadership responsibilities, Sen. Balderson serves as vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture — an industry credited with employing one in seven state residents. He also serves as a member of the Senate Education, Public Utilities, Transportation, and Workforce & Economic Development committees. Prior to being named to the Ohio Senate, Sen. Balderson served in the Ohio House of Representatives, where he sat on the House Finance Committee and also presided as chairman of the Subcommittee on Agriculture and Natural Resources. The senator describes himself as “business and jobs friendly” and generally opposes increased taxes on Ohioans and Ohio businesses. He has a perfect 100% legislative rating from the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and a 0% rating from the Ohio Teachers Federation, based on his voting record in the House. In addition to his work in the Legislature, Sen. Balderson is a small businessman as the third-generation co-owner of 77-year-old Balderson Motor Sales, an auto dealership in Zanesville. Mr. Balderson also has ties to the land and to farming. His family has owned and operated a farm in Salem Township for several generations. Born and raised in southeastern Ohio, Sen. Balderson graduated from Zanesville High School in 1980 and attended both Muskingum College and Ohio State University. Sen. Balderson says he is active in his local community, including being a part of the Genesis Health Care Advisory Board, the Cattleman’s Association, the Muskingum County Farm Bureau and the National Rifle Association. He is also a member of the Fairfield County, Muskingum County, and Pickerington chambers of commerce, the Muskingum County Business Incubator Board and the Ohio Township Association and was co-founder of Appalachia Outdoor Adventures. — Dan Shingler

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Man of the People

In Washington, Rep. Bill Johnson represents Ohio’s 6th district — and its shale gas aspirations.

iven the layout of Ohio’s 6th congressional district, which runs along the southeast side of the state and hugs the Ohio River from the southern edge of Youngstown to the most southern part of the state in Lawrence County, its elected representative needs to be well-versed on energy issues. This is the part of the state that still mines coal; Belmont County produced 13 million tons in 2010, and Ohio gets 80% of its electricity from coal-fired plants. But of far more importance is that this part of Ohio that borders Kentucky, West Virginia and Pennsylvania is the hot spot for shale gas drilling. And the district’s congressman, U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, knows that representing those interests in Washington is a top priority. “We are beginning to see some of the economic benefits in eastern Ohio, from the building of processing plants to hotel construction to jobs in areas of the industry and in other areas,” Rep. Johnson said. “But this is just the beginning, and what we have to do now is to do the right thing, so that this natural gas drilling benefits everyone in the area for a long time.” Rep. Johnson is a retired Air Force colonel and ran several information technology consulting companies before being elected to Congress as a Republican in 2010. In his first election, he had support from tea party groups and defeated the now-deceased incumbent, Democrat Charlie Wilson. But Rep. Johnson is not a member of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus. In addition to his representing an Ohio region right in the sweet spot of the Utica shale play, Rep. Johnson was appointed to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce this past June. He and Bob Latta, a Republican representing Ohio’s 5th congressional district, in northwestern Ohio, are the only members of the powerful committee from the Buckeye State. The focus of Rep. Johnson’s work on the committee will be to get the federal government out of the way when it comes to developing the energy industry in Ohio. That includes reducing taxes on energy companies, supporting policies that encourage new startups and, especially, keeping the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency out of the picture. “The people in my district live and work near these energy producing areas,

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whether those are coal or natural gas, and we know how to regulate those businesses,” Rep. Johnson said. “We aren’t going to let our air and water to be polluted. The federal EPA just adds a layer of regulation that does harm. The states can handle this and don’t need the EPA to get involved.” Rep. Johnson said he will also encourage policies that favor the development of not just coal and natural gas, but also that of alternative energy sources, like wind and solar. But he is against government subsidies that favor one or another. “As a nation, we must have a goal that by 2020 we will no longer be dependent on foreign energy sources,” he said. “And coal and natural gas should be a part of that. We shouldn’t be favoring one over another. “We should let the market decide what works and what doesn’t,” Rep. Johnson said. “We have brilliant entrepreneurs and inventors in this country, and we need to have them thrive in a system that encourages their work. If someone figures out ways to have cars running on natural gas more efficiently, then we need to have the government get out of the way and let that work. If solar power becomes efficient, then that is the way the market goes. He said the combination of coal and natural gas in Ohio “will make this state one of the most important energy production places in the world, and the manufacturing industry led by these entrepreneurs will be a big part of that.” Of course, politics tends to change quickly, especially in terms of the players. Rep. Johnson is up for re-election in 2014, and Democraticleaning political action committees already have started ads against his conservative voting record, including his vote against ending the recent federal government shutdown this past October. Rep. Johnson said he is not even thinking about the 2014 election at this point. “My job is to serve my bosses, and those bosses are the people that live in my district,” he said. “And they have indicated to me over and over again, that their concerns are about the economy and jobs and energy. That’s what I’m concerned about as well.” — Dan McGraw

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“We saw — because of our airport, because of our highways, because of rail and because of the business infrastructure that exists here already — we had an opportunity to be a business capital, if not the business capital for the Utica,” he said. The level of activity has calmed down a bit now that the land rush for mineral rights is over and drillers must wait for midstream infrastructure to be built before they can produce much oil and gas. But that situation just means a slight slowdown from 2012, when about two companies per week were contacting the chamber asking for help in securing local sites for their businesses. Meanwhile, Mr. Kaminski has begun looking further forward, such as at how the region’s chemical and plastics companies can benefit from increased domestic gas production. He isn’t concerned about whether the play will continue to develop. It will, he said, and he’ll be ready to react and help businesses to participate in the process. — Dan Shingler

To drill the well haphazardly so that the well doesn’t bring the oil and gas out of the ground properly, or causes environmental problems in the community, makes little sense.

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Mr. Shaner said he’d like the proposed act’s individual measures to be considered by lawmakers, even if they won’t consider the measure in total. The act contains 32 provisions that Mr. Shaner says would increase the transparency and accountability of the oil and gas industry, while protecting landowner rights. Among other things, it calls for a 5% severance tax on oil and gas, to be used exclusively to fund well inspection and enforcement measures, as well as for the ability of affected landowners to appeal the issuance of a drilling permit. Some of those measures are in step with Gov. John Kasich, who has called for higher taxes on the oil and gas industry. But others run counter to what the governor and oil and gas industry representatives say is necessary for the industry to expand here, such as permits that can not be appealed. “We don’t begrudge folks rights to sign on the dotted line, we just think they should have better protection,” Mr. Shaner said. And he reiterated that his goal is not to stop drilling, only to make it as safe as possible. “Oil and gas drilling has been around in Ohio for more than a hundred years, (and) it’s probably go to be around for a least a few more decades,” Mr. Shaner said. “Our concern is protection of our air, land and water resources, public health and communities.” — Dan Shingler

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“Our regulations in Ohio meet or exceed the federal EPA standards, and we have extra testing done for permitting of injection disposal wells in areas with a history of seismic activity,” Mr. Hill said. “Ohio gets it right in many ways.” As for horizontal drilling and fracking generally, Mr. Hill said the oil and gas industry has a good track record to support its claims of safety. With more than 50 years of hydraulic fracturing drilling behind us, Mr. Hill said, and more than 1 million fracked wells drilled in the United States (and more than 2 million worldwide), the evidence supports the industry, he said. “What I keep telling people is that the drilling companies invest millions of dollars in every well they drill, and it is in their best interest to keeping the well operating efficiently and cleanly based upon their investment,” Mr. Hill said. “To drill the well haphazardly so that the well doesn’t bring the oil and gas out of the ground properly, or causes environmental problems in the community, makes little sense.” Besides, he points out, he’s not just a driller, but he also resides where the drilling takes place. “And that is the message I try to get out to people,” he said. “I live here and my kids and grandkids live here as well, and we and the other drillers operate in ways where we are good neighbors and we want everyone in the state to benefit from the economic development — especially good jobs — as we become a prime source of energy in the world.” — Dan McGraw

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drilled wells in wells in Total Permits total Permits total Permits Company total wells progress production 2013 2012 2011 Chesapeake Exploration 536 233 26 119 235 241 65 Gulfport Energy Corp. 89 19 16 13 69 20 Antero Resources Corp. 51 14 13 7 41 10 CNX Gas Co. 37 17 5 2 21 12 4 Hess Ohio Developments 29 6 6 6 23 6 R E Gas Development 23 6 1 7 15 8 Eclipse Resources I 19 1 1 18 1 EnerVest Corp. 17 1 3 1 13 3 HG Energy 17 8 6 1 1 13 3 Hilcorp Energy Co. 15 3 1 14 1 PDC Energy Inc. 14 4 3 3 11 3 Devon Energy Production Co. 13 3 1 2 11 2 Anadarko E & P Onshore 12 7 2 4 6 Halcon Operating Co. 11 2 1 10 1 Atlas Noble 8 4 4 Mountaineer Keystone 8 4 1 1 1 7 Chevron Appalachia 7 1 1 5 2 EQT Production Co. 7 3 6 1 Triad Hunter 7 1 7 Hess Ohio Resources 6 2 4 3 3 Hall Drilling (Oil & Gas) 5 4 4 1 XTO Energy Inc. 5 3 1 1 4 BP America Production Co. 4 3 1 4 Carrizo (Utica) 4 2 2 Rice Drilling D 3 3 Sierra Resources 3 3 Brammer Engineering Inc. 2 1 1 2 Beusa Energy 1 1 EM Energy Ohio 1 1 Swepi 1 1 Total

961 332

180

525

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Companies selling into the shale gas supply chain

Our thanks to Scott Miller and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University for their help in compiling this list. OU has compiled the most comprehensive list of Utica supply chain companies that we’ve seen – with more than 1,300 entries. Only a portion are included here, along with other companies unearthed in our own research.

construction Company address county Phone

Pioneer Pipe/Pioneer Group

2021 Hanna Road, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-376-2400

CPRO Development Inc.

8191 Township Road 102, Millersburg, Ohio 44654

Holmes

330-674-2776

Cryogenic Construction

2950 County Road 74, Mingo Junction, Ohio 43938

Jefferson

740-282-5043

American Infrastructure Enterprises

20225 state Route 7 S, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-374-0549

Bi Con Services Inc.

10901 Clay Pike Road, Derwent, Ohio 43733

Guernsey

740-685-2542

Beacon Marshall Cos.

3457 Granger Road, Bath, Ohio 44210

Summit

330-659-2040

PLIDCO-The Pipe Line Development Co.

870 Canterbury Road, Westlake, Ohio 44256 Cuyahoga

440-871-5700

Grunau Co.

8302 Southern Blvd., Boardman, Ohio 44512

Mahoning

330-758-3500

Diamond Steel Construction

11260 Mentzer Drive, North Lima, Ohio 44452

Mahoning

330-549-5500

Lindsay Concrete Products

6845 Erie Ave. NW, Canal Fulton, Ohio 44614

Stark

800-837-7788

The Ruhlin Co.

6931 Ridge Road, Sharon Center, Ohio 44274

Medina

330-419-4815

Associated Builders and Contractors

33 Greenwood Lane, Springboro, Ohio 45066

Warren

937-704-0111

The Chas. E. Phipps Co.

2993 Perry Drive SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark

Ray Fogg Building Methods Inc.

981 Keynote Circle, Cleveland, Ohio 44131 Cuyahoga

216-351-7976

Kirila Contractors Inc.

505 Bedford Road SE, Brookfield, Ohio 44403

Trumbull

330-448-4055

Kinetics Noise Control Inc.

6300 Irelan Place, Dublin, Ohio 43017

Franklin

614-889-0480

ISCO Industries

1430A Virginia St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

614-419-5457

Triad Engineering Inc.

1005 E. State St., Athens, Ohio 45701

Athens

740-249-4304

Borton-Lawson Engineering

4450 Belden Village St. NW, Suite 704, Canton, Ohio 44718

Stark

Farris Engineering, a Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Co.

10195 Brecksville Road, Brecksville, Ohio 44141 Cuyahoga

440-838-7560

Foresight Enginering Group Inc.

320 Center St., Unit F, Chardon, Ohio 44024

440-286-1010

330-754-0467

engineering

Geauga

330-312-7799

Jobes Henderson & Associates Inc.

59 Grant St., Newark, Ohio 43055

Licking

740-344-5451

U.S. Bridge

201 Wheeling Ave., Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey

740-432-6334

Basic Systems Inc.

9255 Cadiz Road, Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey

740-432-7223

Hull & Associates Inc.

4 Hemisphere Way, Bedford, Ohio 44146 Cuyahoga

440-232-9945

CESO Inc.

8534 Yankee St., Dayton, Ohio 45458

Montgomery

937-435-8584

RJM Engineering Company Inc.

66 S. Plains Road, The Plains, Ohio 45780

Athens

740-797-0500

Engineering Associates Inc.

1935 Eagle Pass, Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne

330-345-6556

Sands Decker CPS

507 Main St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

614-459-6992

JANX

2455 Baker Road SW, New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas

330-353-1904

CTI Engineers Inc.

220 Market Ave. S, Suite 750, Canton, Ohio 44702

Stark

330-455-7733

U.S.T. Environmental Contractor Inc.

8374 Lancaster Newark Road NE, Baltimore, Ohio 43105

Fairfield

740-862-1554

WQSi

4024 E. Miami River Road, Cleves, Ohio 45311

Hamilton

513-662-8120

Ohio Soil Recycling

2101 Integrity Drive S, Columbus, Ohio 43209

Franklin

614-444-7645

Belmont Labs

25 Holiday Drive, Englewood, Ohio 45322

Montgomery

937-832-8242

Environmental Design Group

450 Grant St., Akron, Ohio 44311

Summit

330-375-1390

Partners Environmental Consulting Inc.

31100 Solon Road, Solon, Ohio 44139 Cuyahoga

440-248-6005

Civil & Environmental Consultants Inc.

8740 Orion Place, Suite 100, Columbus, Ohio 43240

Franklin

888-598-6808

BBU Environmental Services Ltd

2206 Horns Mill Road, Lancaster, Ohio 43130

Fairfield

740-681-9902

SUNPRO

7640 Whipple Ave. NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720

Stark

330-966-0910

Norton Engineering LLC

5758 Webster St., Dayton, Ohio 45414

Montgomery

937-223-5848

Labyrinth Management Group Inc.

239 S. Court St., Medina, Ohio 44256

Medina

330-764-4825

All Purpose Environmental Services

7890 Navarre Road SW, Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark

330-495-6483

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environmental services Company/address county Phone

Southside Environmental Group LLC 465 Robbins Ave., Niles, Ohio 44446

Trumbull

HAAS Enviornmental 647 Market St., Steubenville, Ohio 43952

Jefferson 740-284-0694

330-299-0026

Precision Analytical Inc. Cuyahoga 216-663-0808 4450 Johnston Parkway, Unit B, Cleveland, Ohio 44128 Environmental Resources Management Cuyahoga 216-593-5200 3333 Richmond Road, Suite 160, Beachwood, Ohio 44122 ASC Group Inc. 800 Freeway Drive North, Suite 101, Columbus, Ohio 43229

Franklin 614-268-2514

Microbac Laboratories 158 Starlite Drive, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington 800-373-4071

equipment rental/supply National Pump and Process Inc. 180 Treat Road, Aurora, Ohio 44202

Portage 330-562-0220

Progressive Crane Cuyahoga 216-210-4305 21000 Aerospace Pkwy, Cleveland, Ohio 44142 Stauffer Glove & Safety 3866 Kropf Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark 330-484-4197

ABC Equipment Rental and Sales 29 Pearl Road, Brunswick, Ohio 44212

Medina 330-220-4545

Canton Erectors Inc. 2009 Quimby Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark 330-453-7363

Pro-Am Safety 551 Keystone Drive, Warren, Ohio 44512

Trumbull 330-207-0083

Oil Distributing Co. 2181 Hardy Parkway, Grove City, Ohio 43123

Franklin 614-406-6138

Vermeer Heartland 2574 U.S. Route 22 NW, Washington C.H., Ohio 43160

Fayette 740-335-8571

Sattler Pump Solutions 1455 Wolf Creek Trail, Sharon Center, Ohio 44274

Medina 330-239-2552

SSECO Air Fluid Environment Cuyahoga 216-431-6100 1294 E. 55th St., Cleveland, Ohio 44103 Rentwear Inc. 7944 Whipple Ave. NW, North Canton, Ohio 44720

Stark 330-494-5776

RICO Manufacturing 691 W. Liberty St., Medina, Ohio 44256

Medina 330-723-4050

Leslie Equipment Co. 105 Tennis Center Drive, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington 740-373-5255

General Rental 1606 Sunset Blvd., Steubenville, Ohio 43952

Jefferson 740-282-9588

Murphy Tractor & Equipment 1509 Raff Road SW, Canton, Ohio 44710

Stark 330-477-9304

Winter Equipment Co. 1900 Joseph Lloyd Parkway, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Lake 440-946-8377

E-Tank Rentals Ltd. 4113 Millennium Blvd. SE, Massilon, Ohio 44646

Stark 888-703-8265

Capital City Group Inc. Coshocton 740-294-1003 46626 County Road 495, Coshocton, Ohio 43812 Leppo Rents 1634 Shepler Church Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark 330-456-6800

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equipment rental/supply Company address county Phone

JTK Rental & Construction

262 E. Steels Corners Road, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44244

Summit

330-239-1468

Superior Safety

2811 Dover Zoar Road NE, Bolivar, Ohio 44612

Tuscarawas

330-874-9620

Ohio CAT

1016 E. Market St., Cadiz, Ohio 43907

Harrison

614-851-3576

Zoresco Equipment Co.

301 Lawton Ave., Monroe, Ohio 45050

Butler

513-360-2929

Garment Specialties

1885 E. Aurora Road, Twinsburg, Ohio 44087

Summit

330-425-2928

Frontier Tank Center Inc.

3800 Congress Parkway, Richfield, Ohio 44286

Summit

800-662-6344

TorqHoist Inc.

26001 Miles Road, Suite 2, Cleveland, Ohio 44128 Cuyahoga

216-292-5585

Hapco Inc.

390 Portage Blvd., Kent, Ohio 44240

800-345-9353

Premier Pump Inc.

4891 Van Epps Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44131 Cuyahoga

216-739-1600

Kraft Fluid Systems Inc.

14300 Foltz Parkway, Strongsville, Ohio 44149 Cuyahoga

800-257-1155

Hammelmann Hydro Test Pump Corp.

600 Progress Road, Dayton, Ohio 45449

Montgomery

937-859-8777

F L Tanks

1111 Gilman Ave., Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-568-4636

SkimTech Inc.

843 Mayfield Drive, Youngstown, Ohio 44512

Mahoning

330-774-5044

Tiger General LLC

6867 Wooster Pike Road, Medina, Ohio 44256

Medina

330-725-4949

Sutton Pump & Supply Inc.

2892 state Route 39 NE, New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas

330-364-5811

Ray Lewis and Co.

7235 state Route 45, Lisbon, Ohio 44432 Columbiana

330-424-9585

The Gorman-Rupp Co.

600 S. Airport Road, Mansfield, Ohio 44901 Richland

419-565-4251

Mid-Ohio Pump LLC

20021 Knox Lake Road, Fredericktown, Ohio 43019

Knox

740-507-8445

Fischer-Bush Equipment

2339 state Route 821, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

800-886-0611

The American Road Machinery Co.

401 Bridge St., Minerva, Ohio 44657

Stark

330-868-7724

Precision Geophysical Inc.

2695 state Route 83 South, Millersburg, Ohio 44654

Holmes

330-674-2198

Precision Geophysical Inc.

4700 Rucker Road, Mount Perry, Ohio 43760

Perry

740-849-3044

Turn-Key Tunneling

1247 Stimmel Road, Columbus, Ohio 43223

Franklin

614-275-4832

J S Paris Excavating Inc.

12240 Commissioner Drive, North Jackson, Ohio 44451

Mahoning

330-538-9876

Superior Enterprises Unlimited LLC

1245 Memory Lane N, Columbus, Ohio 43209

Franklin

614-452-3108

Beaver Excavating

2000 Beaver Place Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark

330-478-2151

Williams Excavating LLC

8801 county Road 22A, Bloomingdale, Ohio 43910

Jefferson

740-937-2077

Marion Landscape Service

132 Union St, Marion, Ohio 43302

Marion

740-382-2941

Green Valley Seed

7472 Akron-Canfield Road, Canfield, Ohio 44406

Mahoning

330-533-4353

Portage

geological services

landscape/excavating

manufactured products

Bamcor, Machinery Rebuilding and Repair Specialists

4700 Briar Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44135 Cuyahoga

216-265-1100

The Torrmetal Corp.

12125 Bennington Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44135 Cuyahoga

216-671-1616

AT&F (American Tank & Fabricating Co.)

12314 Elmwood Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44111 Cuyahoga

216-252-1500

Ericson Manufacturing Co.

4215 Hamann Parkway, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Lake

440-951-8000

C&B Machine Inc.

264 S. Tuscarawas Ave., Dover, Ohio 44622

Tuscarawas

330-602-7777

Fastener Solutions Inc.

97 Karago Ave., Suite 7, Boardman, Ohio 44512

Mahoning

866-463-2910

GEM Coatings

5840 Industrial Drive, Athens, Ohio 45701

Athens

740-589-2998

Barium & Chemicals Inc.

515 Kingsdale Road, Steubenville, Ohio 43952

Jefferson

740-282-9776

Applied Industrial Technologies

2801 Salt Springs Road, Youngstown, Ohio 44509

Mahoning

330-799-8790

Shamrock Hose & Fittings Inc.

1771 Ivanhoe Drive, Cleveland, Ohio 44112 Cuyahoga

216-224-9845

Foltz Machine Inc.

2030 Allen Ave., SE, Canton, Ohio 44707

Stark

330-453-9235

AMG Vanadium Inc.

60790 Southgate Road, Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey

740-825-9366

PWAbsorbents

1909 Oldmansfield Road, Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne

440-773-0561

Industrial Controls & Equipment

31100 Bainbridge Road, Solon, Ohio 44139 Cuyahoga

440-248-9400

Royal Chemical Co.

1755 Enterprise Parkway, Twinsburg, Ohio 44087

Summit

330-467-1300

Controlco Inc.

940 Taylor St., Elyria, Ohio 44035

Lorain

800-428-3705

HPE Inc.

2025 Harsh Ave. SE, Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark

330-833-3161

Summit Steel Corp.

16695 W. Park Circle Drive, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023 Cuyahoga

800-232-7077

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manufactured products Company/address county Phone

Etna Products Inc. Cuyahoga 440-263-4773 16824 Park Circle Drive, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023 V&M Star 2669 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Youngstown, Ohio 44510

Mahoning 330-742-6300

Metal Seal Precision 7333 Corporate Boulevard, Mentor, Ohio 44060

Lake

Youngstown Rubber Products Inc. 854 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44501

Mahoning 330-744-2158

440-255-8888

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Beacon Gasket & Seals - Oil & Gas Cuyahoga 216-276-3192 1610 Coutant Ave., Lakewood, Ohio 44107 Metaltech Steel Co. LLC 113 Industry Road, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington 740-373-8339

Trumbull Industries 1040 N. Meridian Road, Youngstown, Ohio 44509

Mahoning 330-799-3333

Ebnerfab 224 Quadral Drive, Wadsworth, Ohio 44281

Medina 330-335-1890

Nationwide Industrial Supply Inc. 8414 South Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44514

Mahoning 330-758-9593

Kistler Fabricating Inc. 140 Dana St., Warren, Ohio 44483

Trumbull

Michael Bradley & Co. 414 Greene St., Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington 740-373-8126

330-393-9313

Cleveland Valve Cuyahoga 800-860-4284 8341 Whitewood, Brecksville, Ohio 44141 Bor-It Manufacturing Co. 1687 Cleveland Ave., Ashland, Ohio 44805

Ashland

Pipe-Valves Inc. 1200 E. Fifth Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43219

Franklin 614-294-4971

Ohio Pipe Valves & Fittings Cuyahoga 3900 Trent Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44109

419-289-6639

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Ariel Corp. 35 Blackjack Road, Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050

Knox 740-397-0311

Ohio Steel Industries 2575 Ferris Road, Columbus, Ohio 43224

Franklin

614-471-4800

Philpott Energy & Transportation Co. Medina 330-225-3344 1010 Industrial Parkway N, Brunswick, Ohio 44256 Starr Manufacturing Inc. 4175 Warren-Sharon Road, Vienna, Ohio 44473

Trumbull

330-394-9891

Summers Rubber Co. Cuyahoga 216-941-7700 12555 Berea Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44111 Chart Industries Inc. Cuyahoga 440-753-1490 One Infinity Corporate Centre Drive, Garfield Heights, Ohio 44125 The Timken Co. 1835 Dueber Ave. SW, Canton, Ohio 44706

Stark 330-471-3832

Essential Sealing Products Inc. Cuyahoga 10145 Queens Way, Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023

440 543 8108

E-Pak Manufacturing LLC 1109 Pittsburgh Ave., Wooster, Ohio 44691

Wayne 330-804-6884

Kimble Custom Chassis Co. 1951 Reiser Ave. SE, New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas 330-308-6705

North Coast Seal Cuyahoga 216-898-5000 5163 W. 137 St., Brook Park, Ohio 44142 McNeil Industries Inc. 835 Richmond Road, Painesville, Ohio 44077

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Oilfield Service/Supply Company/address county Phone

Worthington Industries 200 Old Wilson Bridge Road, Columbus, Ohio 43085

Franklin 800-338-8265

Torque Inc. 10115 Regatta Trail, Aurora, Ohio 44202

Portage 330-963-4124

Riverview Industrial Supply Co. 1205 Gravel Bank Road, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington 740-568-0432

Iron Eagle Enterprises LLC 4991 Belmont Ave., Youngstown, Ohio 44505

Mahoning 330-621-6253

Risk Control 360 5500 Glendon Court, Dublin, Ohio 43016

Franklin 330-301-3262

Harmons Well Service 35355 state Route 26, Graysville, Ohio 45734

Monroe 740-934-2826

Apex Supply Chain Technologies 7300 Central Parke Boulevard, Mason, Ohio 45140

Warren 513-204-1702

AOT Inc. (Appalachian Oilfield Technologies Inc.) 8191 Township Road 102, Millersburg, Ohio 44654

Holmes

330-231-2076

BDI Cuyahoga 216-642-2288 8000 Hub Parkway, Cleveland, Ohio 44125 Computerized Mudlogging Service LLC Mahoning 330-540-0638 170 Sandy Court, Unit 5, New Middletown, Ohio 44442 R.L. Laughlin & Co. 125 state Route 43, Hartville, Ohio 44632

Stark 330-587-1230

Fruhquip Inc. 357 N. Fifth St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum 740-588-0681

Federal Process Corp. Cuyahoga 216-464-6440 4520 Richmond Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44128 Central Fiber LLC Stark 330-452-2630 1525 Waynesburg Drive SE, Canton, Ohio 44707 Buckeye Pumps Inc. Crawford 419-468-7866 1311 Freese Works Place, Galion, Ohio 44833 Producers Service Corp. 109 S. Graham St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum 740-454-6253

Technical Products Inc. Cuyahoga 216-314-0220 3500 Ridge Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44102 National Oilwell Varco (NOV) Downhole Tools Stark 10369 Cardale St. SW, Beach City, Ohio 44608

330-339-6516

Harbison-Fischer 3470 Old Wheeling Road, Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum 740-453-5991

Dingey Movers Inc. 526 Harvard St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum 740-453-6724

Stockdale Mine Supply LLC 315 Zane Grey Road, Norwich, Ohio 43767

Muskingum 740-872-3255

Dover Hydraulics 2996 Progress St., Dover, Ohio 44622

Tuscarawas 800-394-1617

OCS Technologies Inc. Cuyahoga 216-741-0224 1300 E. Granger Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44131 E Pump 4113 Millennium Blvd. S.E., Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark 888-703-8265

American Producers Supply 119 Second St., Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington 740-373-5050

Apple Mobile Leasing Inc. 2871 W. 130 St., Hinckley, Ohio 44233

Medina 330-722-2004

Petta Enterprises 519 N. Seventh St., Cambridge, Ohio 43725

Guernsey 740-705-3851

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Oilfield Service/Supply Company/address county Phone

Rampp Group 20445 state Route 550, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington 800-272-7886

BW Rogers Co. 1034 North Meridian Road, Youngstown, Ohio 44509

Mahoning 216-543-3783

FRSafety 650 W. Smith Road, Suite C 14, Medina, Ohio 44256

Medina 866-783-7977

Michael Bradley Apparatus LLC 116 Industry Road, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington 800-348-3502

1st Choice Energy Services 1062 W. High Ave., New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

Tuscarawas 800-227-1062

Uni-Facs Steel Works LLC 1241 McKinley Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43222

Franklin

614-546-6171

Xylem Dewatering d.b.a. Godwin Pumps of America Inc. 300 Temple St., Painesville, Ohio 44077

Lake

440-357-6868

Holland Supply 8225 Green Meadows Drive N., Lewis Center, Ohio 43035

Franklin 740-549-6550

ORR Safety Corp. 9914 Windisch Road, West Chester, Ohio 45069

Butler 513-910-9799

AMS Uniforms Carroll 419-296-1398 1530 Canton Road, Carrollton, Ohio 44615 Hamilton 513-272-8300

Coulson Compression & Measurement 7280 Rose Hill Road, Roseville, Ohio 43777

Muskingum 740-697-0220

Hubbard Enterprises LLC 109 W. Chestnut St., Lancaster, Ohio 43130

Fairfield

Bullseye Industrial Supply Corp. 628 Erie St. N, Massillon, Ohio 44646

Stark 330-833-4990

Big Oat’s Oil Field Supply Co. 38700 Pelton Road, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Lake 440-942-1800

Murdock Industrial Inc. 553 Carroll St., Akron, Ohio 44304

Summit

918-623-2321

216-337-6001

Tribco Inc. 18901 Cranwood Parkway, Cleveland, Ohio 44128 Cuyahoga 216-486-2000 Consolidated Pipe & Supply Co. 99 Diamond Blvd., Streetsboro, Ohio 44241

Portage 330-388-6838

Ron’s Workingman’s Store 314 Cherry Ave. SE, Canton, Ohio 44702

Stark 330-455-5051

Anchor Drilling Fluids USA Inc. Columbiana 724-553-9172 2400 Clark Ave., Wellsville, Ohio 43968 RCW Industrial Solutions Inc. 429 Waynesburg Road SE, Canton, Ohio 44707

Stark 330-452-6548

Complete Hydraulic Service 10955 Industrial Parkway NW, Bolivar, Ohio 44612

Tuscarawas 330-874-1003

Cummins Bridgeway 9373 State Road, Strasburg, Ohio 44680

Tuscarawas 412-820-8300

Dearing Compressor & Pump Co. 3974 Simon Road, Youngstown, Ohio 44501

Mahoning 330-599-5720

Inland Tarp and Liner LLC 1600 N. Main St., Fostoria, Ohio 44830

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Oilfield Service/Supply Company address county Phone

Skycasters LLC

1520 S. Arlington St., Akron, Ohio 44306

Summit

330-785-2100

Buckeye Drill Co. (Buckeye Supply Co.)

999 Zane St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

740-452-3641

US Safety Gear Inc.

4196 W. Market St., Leavittsburg, Ohio 44430

Trumbull

800-686-1459

APO Pumps & Compressors

6607 Chittenden, Hudson, Ohio 44236

Summit

330-650-1330

Baker Hughes

526 Edelweiss Village Parkway, Newcomerstown, Ohio 43832

Tuscarawas

740-498-7900

Goss Supply Co.

620 Marietta St., Zanesville, Ohio 43701

Muskingum

740-454-2571

Echo 24 Inc.

167-A Cypress St. SW, Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068

Franklin

740-964-7082

Timco Inc.

57051 Marietta Road, Byesville, Ohio 43723

Guernsey

800-685-2554

United Industrial Sales Co.

4410 Glenbrook Road, Willoughby, Ohio 44094

Lake

440-942-5678

United Chart Processors Inc.

1461 Masonic Park Road, Marietta, Ohio 45750

Washington

740-373-5801

Appalachian Professional Associates LLC

254 Exline Road, Jackson, Ohio 45640

Jackson

740-286-9966

B L Robinson Engineering and Surveying

1799 Akron-Peninsula Road, Suite 125, Akron, Ohio 44313

Summit

330-836-8487

R. M. Kole & Associates

5316 Ridge Road, Parma, Ohio 44129 Cuyahoga

440-885-7137

David Bodo and Associates Inc.

5175 Tongo Road NW, Carrollton, Ohio 44615 Carroll

330-863-2300

H& W Trucking Inc.

15 W. Locust St., Newark, Ohio 43055

740-297-4351

LGSTX Services Inc.

145 Hunter Drive, Wilmington, Ohio 45177 Clinton

937-725-4233

Ergon Trucking Inc.

11117 Bachelor Road NW, Magnolia, Ohio 44643 Carroll

330-866-2550

Iron City Trucking LLC

3125 Wilson Ave., Campbell, Ohio 44405

Mahoning

330-755-2772

Allstate Peterbilt Group

8650 Brookpark Road, Brooklyn, Ohio 44129 Cuyahoga

216-335-9820

M&M Delivery LLC

53485 Marietta Road, Pleasant City, Ohio 43772

Guernsey

740-685-9600

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327 Stone Creek Road, New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663

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3677 Anthony Lane, Franklin, Ohio 45005

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937-746-6361

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5143 Stoneham Road, North Canton, Ohio 44720

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1100 Superior Ave. E, Suite 1410, Cleveland, Ohio 44114 Cuyahoga

800-841-0342

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2266 S. Sixth St., Coshocton, Ohio 43812 Coshocton

740-291-1066

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22 Edgewater Drive, Poland, Ohio 44514

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330-787-0496

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122 E. McPherson Hwy., Clyde, Ohio 43410

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419-680-0423

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1550 Likens Road, Marion, Ohio 43302

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740-387-6593

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518 Fifth St., Fairport Harbor, Ohio 44077

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440-669-9380

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1415 Brookdale Ave., East Palestine, Ohio 44413 Columbiana

330-426-4149

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22133 U.S. Route 30 E, Minerva, Ohio 44657

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330-904-2529

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61504 Southgate Road, Cambridge, Ohio 43725

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