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Saturday, November 3, 2012

USGS Releases Utica Shale Assessment

USGS Releases Utica Shale Assessment

The U.S. Geological Survey has discovered that the Utica ShaleA fine grained sedimentary rock composed mostly of consolidated clay or mud. Shale is the most frequently occurring sedimentary rock. contains about 38 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gasA naturally occurring mixture of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases beneath the earth’s surface – often

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