Utica Shale

The Utica Shale is located across much of the Appalachian Basin in the Northeast U.S. The play covers a larger geographic area than the Marcellus Shale and is prospective for both oil and gas. The first Utica Shale production was established in 1934 in Pottawatomie County, NY, but more recently oil & gas activity has expanded across a wider area. Ohio has now found itself at the center of an oil & gas boom. The advent of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing completion technology in the past few years is now advancing development of the Utica Shale.