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Wickstrom: 'Utica-Point Pleasant Play is a Star'
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The Utica Shale play is one of the brightest stars in the developing US resource play scene.
The overall play is actually composed of at least three named geologic units; the Utica Shale, the Point Pleasant Formation, and the Collingwood Member of the Trenton Limestone. The Utica Shale covers much of the northern Appalachian basin, Cincinnati-Findlay Arches, and Michigan basin and has been productive in Quebec, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
Ohio is the primary focus of current activity because this state has the thickest accumulation of the Point Pleasant formation which underlies the Utica Shale. The Point Pleasant is a hybrid fine-grained reservoir system composed of organic-rich carbonates interlayered with organic-rich calcareous shale. Thus, in Ohio and western…
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