XTO Energy News

Belmont and Monroe County landowners, as well as natural gas and oil companies, hope the Ohio Department of Natural Resources will allow drilling in the liquids-rich Utica Shale formation to proceed.

Exxon Mobil subsidiary XTO Energy plans to drill its first Ohio Utica Shale well just south of the former Key Ridge Elementary School in Belmont County, state records show.

The world's largest publicly traded oil company has been quite busy in Ohio's Utica Shale field since October, as Exxon Mobil has leased more than 26,000 acres for drilling in Belmont County.

Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp. drilled two unsuccessful exploratory shale-gas wells in Poland at the end of 2011, a top company executive said.

The biggest U.S. oil firm bet big on gas with the $31-billion acquisition of XTO Energy.

Groups raising the money to buy the 285 champion steers, pigs, goats, and lambs exhibited by youths at this year's Fort Worth Stock Show say they're right on top of the commitments they need going into next week's Sale of Champions, the annual auction that sponsors hope will top $3 million.

A Roosevelt man was severely injured Monday in an industrial accident on a drilling rig in a remote part of Uintah County.

The following table shows underlying gas sales and average prices attributable to the net overriding royalty payments made by XTO Energy Inc.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation said Jan. 18 that XTO Energy has 'adequately addressed the release' which took place Jan.