Cutter Oil has begun drilling the "DASHER" well.
Drilling companies name the wells after the person who agrees to have a gas well placed on their property.
The DASHER that is that well's namesake is Jim Dasher, the recently retired Mayfield High School Athletic Director.
Assording to the permit filed by Cutter Oil with the state, the individuals who signed leases, allowing Cutter Oil to clear the woods on the north side of Wilson Mills & drill a well in that residential neighborhood, are:
- Jim & Kay Dasher
- Phillip Henley
- William Conn
- Robert & Yvonne Dasher
- John & Cleo Engbert
- Robert & Gail Storey
- William & Arlene Demyan
- Alex Simkhayan
- Francine Basile
This lease area is an "L' shaped parcel touching both Bishop and Wilson Mills Road
Cutter Oil is also the company responsible for installing a gas well in the Miner Road/Wilson Mills residential neighborhood. That well is called the Sovchen well.
That lease parcel is irregularly shaped (remember, according to ODNR regulations, the individual properties that comprise the leasehold only have to touch each other; the lease parcel can be serpentine in shape). The individuals who signed that lease are:
- Richard & Danielle Sovchen
- Jim Giallabardo & Marilyn Stinnett
- Stuart Kaufman
- John & Evelyn Stevenson
- Alio & Angela Benedetti
Anita, Melianda & Lisa Benedetti
Who else are the drilling companies going after? Is your neighborhood next?
1. Cutter Oil has apparently vowed to ring the community park with gas wells.
I have heard the family in the white house on the east side of Bishop Road, next to Jean Woodie, have signed a lease with them.
2. I have heard both Bass Energy (who has sued the city) and Seagull (the company that was trying to drill on MV land) are both trying to use the old Catalano's property as part of a drilling lease.
Bass has asked the Presbyterian church on the south side of Wilson Mills Road, next to the old Catalanos, to sign a lease allowing it to put a gas well on church property.
And Bass apparently told church leaders that both the new owners of the old Catalano's property and the Mayfield City School District, which owns Millridge School, may be on board----although the Mayfield City School District wants to wait until after the election to sign the lease----apparently in an attempt to avoid messy public outrage, maybe? Of course, Bass had made claims about drilling that are untrue in the past---remember their claim that the owner of the pet cemetary had signed a lease?
Let me know if you hear of anyone else signing leases, and I'll add them to this list.
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