After studying 59,000 acres in the Deep River Basin for 15 years, geologists have said that North Carolina could be sitting on top of tremendous shale gas reserves

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The North Carolina Geological Survey has said in a new report that Lee, Chatham and Moore counties could produce enough natural gas from shale to make North Carolina self-sufficient for 40 years at current levels of consumption. The scientists have sent their findings to the US Geological Survey in Denver on the Sanford sub-basin, a shale formation near the center of the Deep River Basin. The report did not list probable reserve totals.