Photo Caption: This map was displayed at a booth at the NAPE Expo in Houston this past week. It shows 32,000 acres in Athens County available for oil and gas drilling.
Information from a huge industry exposition that took place in Houston last week strongly suggests that oil and gas leases representing at least 67,000 acres in Athens and Meigs counties were being shopped around to potential buyers who may want to drill for shale oil or gas here.
The local leases were being hawked at the 2012 NAPE Winter Expo, whose website bellows in a headline, "Billions of Dollars Looking for Deals!"
The leasing parcels were being offered in two roughly equal sizes. One of the local parcels, about 35,000 acres put together by the Southern Athens County Landowner Association, is part of a much bigger parcel of southeast Ohio leases being represented by a McConnelsville company representing a number of landowners groups in Athens and nearby counties.
The other big parcel, "Athens County 32,000 acres," was being advertised in that fashion on a map at a booth operated by Western Land Services, Inc., a Michigan-based company with several offices across the country. The map was photographed by an anonymous source at the NAPE Expo.
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