Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Pennsylvania going full circle


In 1859, Edwin L. Drake built the first oil well in the United States. Currently, "(a) Fredonia State College professor helped unearth findings that suggest more than 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas lies within the Marcellus black shale that stretches from New York through West Virginia... It began during a Dec. 14 conference call with Texas-based Range Resources Corp., which was drilling near Pittsburgh. Lash's research partner, professor Terry Engelder of Pennsylvania State University, was asked how much natural gas was in the Marcellus Shale." ("Researcher: Shale holds vast supply of natural gas," Buffalo Business First.)

See article, "There's Gas in Those Hills," - New York Times

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