An up-and-coming shale

摘要

With a flurry of activity centered in Ohio, the Utica shale garners attention as development and production increase. Spanning more than 440,000 sq km (170,000 sq miles), the Utica shale has emerged as a major play among North American unconventional resources. With its sweet spot located in Ohio, the shale play extends into Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, and West Virginia in the US as well as Quebec in Canada. The Utica has three hydrocarbon windows, with light and black oil toward the west of Ohio, liquids-rich wet gas and condensate-rich source rock from northeastern Ohio to south-central Ohio, and dry gas through southeastern Ohio and into western Pennsylvania.