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Guest Speakers
NEED
A SPEAKER FOR YOUR PROFESSIONAL, CIVIC or COMMUNITY
GROUP?
OOGEEP offers a FREE
guest speaker program as part of
its public education and outreach program.
Ohio industry professionals can provide approximately
a 45-minute presentation on the basics
of fossil fuels, energy and the exploration and production
of crude oil and natural gas in Ohio. Speaker
presentations can also be customized depending on
the needs of your audience.
For more information about scheduling a
Speaker,
contact us at (740) 587-0410, fax at (740) 587.0446,
or
email us at
rreda@oogeep.org.
- Did you know there are over 64,000
active natural gas and crude oil wells producing
in 49 of Ohio's 88 counties?
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Do you know how
a natural gas and crude oil well is drilled and
produced in Ohio?
- Did you know that Ohio lays claim
to the first discovery of crude oil in the U.S.
from a drilled well?
- Did you know that
there are over 6,000 produced made from petroleum
products?
- Did you know that last year Ohio
produced enough natural gas to hear over 1,000,000
Ohio homes?
Ohio's
rich natural gas and crude oil reserves provide many
opportunities to help the state's economy grow
and prosper.
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The
industry's 4,000 direct jobs and another
10,400 indirect jobs support a total of
14,400 Ohio jobs.
- The industry is responsible for
$730 million per year in Ohio salaries.
- Ohio keeps $1 billion per year
in the state when buying locally produced natural
gas and crude oil.
- Ohio consumers save $60 million
per year in avoided interstate pipeline transportation
costs, and another $5 million per year due to
the price reducing impact of local natural gas
supplies.
- The industry reinvests $281 million
annually on exploration and development.
- The industry pays over $57.5
million annually in local, state and federal
taxes.
- The industry generates approximately
$1.5 billion in gross state product and a statewide
output or sales of $3.1 billion per year.
- The industry paid over $202 million
in royalties and provided another $84 million
in �free gas� in 2008 to local landowners (mineral
interest owners) including farmers, businesses,
schools, churches and local governments with
wells on their property.
Ohio's a national energy leader
in natural gas and crude oil production.
- Ohio is ranked fourth in the total number
of wells drilled. Ohio has drilled over
273,000 wells to date, followed only by
Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania.
- Ohio drilled 558 new wells in 2009.
- Ohio produced 5.1 million barrels of
crude oil in 2009. Today, crude oil is refined
into more than 6,000 everyday products including
medicines, personal care products, plastics,
synthetics and fuel.
- Ohio produced 88 billion cubic feet
of natural gas in 2009, creating enough
energy to heat over 1 million Ohio homes
and businesses. Nearly 7 out of every
10 homes are heated with natural gas.
- Almost 100% of the Ohio natural gas
produced remains in the state.
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The top ten producing Ohio counties in
2009 included: Licking, Knox, Cuyahoga,
Noble, Geauga, Guernsey, Monroe,
Coshocton, Tuscarawas, and Trumbull.
Ohio's natural gas and crude oil
production has one of the smallest environmental
surface footprints of any energy source.
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Advances in technology leave smaller
footprints and less surface disturbance.
- The average well site footprint today
is 30 percent of the size it was in 1970.
Today, Ohio well sites are typically the
size of a family dining room, and the actual
well has a diameter about the size of a
soccer ball.
- Specific environmental laws and regulations
are regularly inspected and supervised by
the Ohio Department of Natural Resources
(ODNR) Division of Mineral Resources Management
(DMRM), and other government agencies.
What environmental
footprints do different energy sources
create?
Ohio's natural gas and crude oil producers are
truly Ohio's most dependable energy farmers.
They choose to participate in a high risk business,
and they are accustomed to working long hours
and operating under adverse weather conditions.
Innovations, perseverance, and hard work are
key to survival in an industry built on a variety
of uncertain conditions: geological, economical
and operational. Through an ongoing commitment
of Ohio's natural gas and crude oil producers,
the domestic industry remains strong.
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