Mallory Overstreet/February 24, 2008/Oil and Energy/7:04pm/
Executives may have found an answer to our gasoline problem. In the northern states of New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, there is a field called the Marcellus field that lies one mile underground that is filled with natural gas. It is estimated to contain about fifty trillion cubic feet of gas, the only problem is getting to it. Researchers have recently figured out a way to get to it, however, the process will be very expensive. After going over the numbers though, the executives figured out that the amount of gas they have found is worth spending the money to get to it. They have figured out that it will cost at least eight hundred thousand dollars. Another question they have run into is weahter the drill will be able to consistently release the gas from underneath the layers of rock. It seems like the Marcellus Shale may be a huge help to ease our natural gas problem. Hopefully geologists will figure out a good way to get it out from underneath the ground.
1 comment:
That is very interesting and that would be a great help. A $800,000 investment doesn't sound that bad when you consider how much money we waste on everything else.
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