Black Gold: EOG Resources Drills Gushers in Ohio Utica

Perhaps our headline is slightly misleading. EOG is not the modern equivalent of Jed Clampett walking along and seeing crude bubbling up out of the ground (as in the fictional The Beverly Hillbillies show of the 1960s with the "Ballad of Jed Clampett" that says, "Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea."). What EOG and other Ohio drillers (like Encino Energy and Ascent Resources) have done is more like rocket science than winning a lottery. The oil has been locked away in the Utica/Point Pleasant shale layer for millennia. Aubrey McClendon, co-founder and former CEO of Chesapeake Energy, was the first to see the vision of freeing oil from the Utica.

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