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.
Significant producers within the Utica Shale are:
The Utica Shale is from the Ordivician age and is found approximately 2,000 feet below the Marcellus Shale in Ohio. Total depths to the base of the Utica range from 3,000 to 9,000 feet across Ohio. The Utica is a massive, organic rich thermally mature black to greyish shale. They variance in depth and thermal maturity across the play means the formation is prospective for dry gas, wet gas, NGLs, condensate and oil. The deposition of the Utica Shale followed lithospheric downwarping that is associated with tectonic loading. The shale terminates by shallow shelf carbonates. The thickness of the Utica Shale varies from 200 to 400 feet across the most prospective areas of Ohio.
The Utica Shale is located in the following counties of Ohio:
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