ig reserves-and getting bigger: That's the good news about the Marcellus and Utica plays.By some analysts'estimates,the Marcellus now ranks as the largest natural gas field in the world,ahead of the gigantic South Pars Field that laps over into Iran and Qatar from beneath the Persian Gulf.And the smaller Utica hardly would rate as little brother anywhere else,except given its nearness to the sprawling Marcellus.The Potential Gas Committee and the American Gas Association(AGA)released the committee's biennial update on U.S.gas reserves late in the third quarter,which estimated the nation's gas resource base at 3,374 trillion cubic feet(Tcf)at yearend 2018.
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