By Peter Behr Another link in an industrial chain Ohio hopes to see growing around the Utica ShaleA fine grained sedimentary rock composed mostly of consolidated clay or mud. Shale is the most frequently occurring sedimentary rock. play was added Tuesday with the opening of a factory in Youngstown that builds natural gasA naturally occurring
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By Shane Hoover Delays in the construction of pipelines and processing plants have put Gulfport Energy’s Utica ShaleA fine grained sedimentary rock composed mostly of consolidated clay or mud. Shale is the most frequently occurring sedimentary rock. drilling four months behind schedule, but the company plans to accelerate exploration this year. Most of Gulfport’s wells
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By Timothy Puko A $750 million power plant project in Lawrence County has taken a big step toward reality with the approval of its state air permit by the Department of Environmental ProtectionThis state agency has permitting and primary regulatory authority over the natural gasA naturally occurring mixture of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases beneath the
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by: Andrew Maykuth, Inquirer Staff Writer Pennsylvania State University geoscientist Terry Engelder spent most of his career toiling in obscurity, studying fracture behavior of rocks known as black shales. Even among geologists, he says, it was kind of a boring topic, and he was often slotted to present his papers on the last day of
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By Bob Downing A new natural-gas-processing plant in eastern Ohio’s Utica shaleA fine grained sedimentary rock composed mostly of consolidated clay or mud. Shale is the most frequently occurring sedimentary rock. is soon to begin operations.That plant at Cadiz in Harrison County is the first cryogenic plantA type of natural gas processing plant that uses
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