DEERSVILLE – On a recent Saturday in this small Harrison County community, a steady stream of big rigs passed through Deersville's main street, headed to a well site owned by Encino Energy on the east edge of town.
The site, known as the Deersville HN FRA Unit, will consist of four horizontal wells, which will be extracting oil and natural gas from 95 separate tracts of land in Franklin, Stock and Nottingham townships, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
The drilling in the Deersville area is a sign that the oil and natural gas industry — which has been quiet in eastern Ohio for the past couple of years — hasn't gone anywhere.