Utica Shale's core area inches southeast toward the Mountain State

摘要

The Utica Shale play, long concentrated in Ohio, could be most prolific in West Virginia, according to a new report from Topeka Capital Markets. The report, which culled first-quarter production data from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), said the play in Ohio was moving south and east toward the Mountain State, where the greatest upside could be in the gas window of the play.