greatest shale gas play of all, the mighty Marcellus, a thick bedrock a mile or more underground that stretches beneath western New York down into Pennsylvania and Ohio and on into West Virginia. It also reaches into Canada. The Marcellus shale would turn out to be the second-largest gas province in the world—and possibly the largest. And another shale formation called the Utica lay below parts of the Marcellus. What particularly drove the independents to move as fast as possible was that great motivator known as price. “After decades of being cheap and plentiful,” the Wall Street Journal
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