Woodsfield, Beallsville, Clarington: the deepest, highest pressure dry gas Utica in Ohio, and one of the few counties where the Marcellus is separately productive too.
Monroe County produces the deepest, highest pressure dry gas Utica in Ohio, roughly 72.6 million Mcf in a recent quarter, about 14 percent of all Ohio gas and fourth in the state. Expand Energy, Gulfport, and CNX are the main operators, with Ascent and EQT also present.
What makes Monroe unusual is that the Marcellus is separately productive here as well. That is not true across most of Ohio, and it means a Monroe County tract can carry genuine standalone value in two stacked plays. Formation severance and deep rights language in your lease is therefore worth more here than almost anywhere else in the state, and an offer computed as a multiple of your current check assigns the second play a value of zero. We read the clauses and price them separately.
The county also has roughly 12,500 wells drilled historically, which means heavy orphan well and shallow rights issues, and a great many old severed mineral interests that nobody has recorded anything against in decades. In Ohio that is dangerous. Under R.C. 5301.56 a surface owner can reclaim a severed interest after 20 years with no savings event, and under the Marketable Title Act a 40 year root of title chain can extinguish it independently. West v. Bode confirmed both routes apply. Delay rental payments do not count as a savings event.
If you own severed Monroe County minerals and have never recorded anything, record a claim to preserve. That advice costs us deals and we give it anyway. Send us a deed and we will tell you where you stand, free.
The deepest and highest pressure part of the play. Roughly 72.6 million Mcf in a recent quarter, about 14 percent of Ohio gas and fourth in the state.
Separately productive here, which is unusual in Ohio and means a tract can carry value in two stacked plays.
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