In order to have the most complete offering of Marcellus and Utica oil and gas leases, it is important to have feet on the ground monitoring the fringe counties of these productive plays. Over the past few months, Apollo Mapping, in conjunction with our Pennsylvania-based partner Surfside Abstracting/Jim Bourbeau Land Service , has recorded increased leasing active in Blair County, Pennsylvania. Blair County is located at the eastern edge of the Marcellus Shale next to productive Marcellus acreage in Cambria and Clearfield, PA.

As such, we are proud to announce the addition of Blair County, Pennsylvania to the most comprehensive database of Marcellus-Utica leases available. With the addition of Blair, PA, the leasehold database now contains 130 counties covering every productive acre of the Marcellus and Utica Shale basins. Blair County will be ready for commercial sales starting January 2012.

Our leasehold database contains 130 counties covering the productive acres of the Marcellus and Utica Shale plays with the bulk in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Our leases are updated at least once every other week with weekly updates to more than a third of the counties. We track and update the key attributes that impact energy development decisions including lessee, lessor, lease expiration dates, royalty and bonus payments as well as formation specific and top leased tracts. If you are interested in finding out more about this database, you can let us know here.

As a free service to the energy industry and local community, we also offer weekly and monthly reports of the leasing activity in Ohio and Pennsylvania. During the month of November 2011, we recorded the most activity in Belmont, OH with Portage, OH and Beaver, PA trailing in second and third respectively. If you are interested in signing up for our free weekly email service, you can do so here.

If you would like to learn more about our database of Marcellus-Utica leases, let us know at brock@apollomapping.com or (720) 470-7988.