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Advances in Natural Gas Technology
Although natural gas has been obtained from organic-rich shales in the United States since
the first commercial gas well was produced in 1821 to provide gas light to four commercial
establishments and a mill in the small town of Fredonia, New York, large-scale shale gas
production is a recent phenomenon. Assessments of the geological and engineering
challenges of shale gas resources were performed in the 1970s and 1980s, as new domestic
energy sources were sought in response to an oil embargo imposed upon the United States,
and the resulting “energy crisis” that followed
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