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Ohio’s Utica Shale: Boom or Bust?

This weekend, the New York Times published a piece on the natural gas boom bust cycle in Louisiana. In this piece, Reuters tries to figure out whether Ohio’s Utica shale play lives up to expectations but finds it’s not that easy to get the data.

More than a year after Chesapeake Energy Corp Chief Executive and top Ohio driller Aubrey McClendon declared the Utica to be “the biggest thing to hit Ohio since the plow,” investors, landowners and even the federal government are still in the dark over the true pace of oil and natural gas production in the state.

Read more at: www.reuters.com

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