Press Play to watch oil and gas leasing spread across Mahoning County, Ohio, parcel by parcel, as acreage and lease counts build over time. Leases are placed on the date they were signed, but they are often recorded with the county weeks or months later, so the most recent months are incomplete and will keep … Read more
Leases recorded in Mahoning County in 2026 now cover about 18,000 acres. The lease map shows where first movers are assembling the contiguous acreage needed for Utica/Point Pleasant drilling units, and why legacy wells and clouded titles are slowing leasing elsewhere.
The Utica Shale oil-to-gas phase boundary in eastern Ohio runs north through Columbiana County to the Wehr 1H well in Mahoning County, where 893 new oil and gas leases were recorded in 2026 through mid-October. Which side of the line acreage sits on, measured by gas-to-oil ratio (GOR), shapes well economics and royalty value for operators and landowners.
The economic success of the wells drilled in western Columbiana County, Ohio, along with the Wehr Spring Valley Farm well, has sent operators in two directions at once. ODNR activity reports and Mahoning County leasing activity show that operators are backfilling the proven acreage and stepping north into ground with only the Wehr well as … Read more
There is renewed interest in Northeast Ohio (Columbiana, Mahoning, Trumbull and Southern Ashtabula county) oil and gas development. Once abandoned, no longer. Data releases from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) and county recorder offices continue to indicate renewed interest in an area once abandoned by the industry. What’s driving the roughly $10-13 million/well … Read more
