Shell has two new gas discoveries in Utica shale frontier
The news will extend the drilling into northern Pennsylvania
Shell has made two new gas discoveries in the Utica shale formation it says extends the play’s sweet spot from eastern Ohio, where most drilling has taken place, into neighbouring Pennsylvania. The Anglo-Dutch major said the two new discovery wells, Neal and Gee, were drilled in Tioga County, in northern Pennsylvania. While it has been known that the Utica stretches across a huge area covering Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and Maryland, most of the Utica’s 1,000-plus wells to date have been drilled along a fairway that stretches across the south eastern Ohio counties of Carroll, Harrison and Jefferson. Shell said the Gee and Neal discoveries show that the sweet spot of the

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