Ohio Township Looks To Oil and Gas Opportunities

Deckhand — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:22:47 +0000

Herb Breymaier’s grandfather drilled a gas well on the family farm in northern Granville Township more than 100 years ago. The well furnished gas to him and Herb’s father until about 1940, when it began to dry up.

For 60 years, the subterranean deposits stayed undisturbed while the low price of oil and natural gas put a damper on exploration in Ohio. But a year-and-half ago, Breymaier, a retired farmer, got a knock on the door from Flint Ridge Energy, a Newark oil exploration and leasing firm that has launched a major exploration initiative in northern Granville Township.

After what FRE vice president for exploration Gary Sitler characterized as a period of trust building, Breymaier signed a lease that allows the company rights to the oil and natural gas on the property.

Sitler said there is no surefire way to predict the productivity of the new well — drilled last March in the middle of a 500-acre farm field –but he is optimistic based on the geological data that the well will be a big producer, possibly of both oil and gas.

“The information we have is that we think this will be a very good well,” he said.

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Ohio Township Looks To Oil and Gas Opportunities