A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Drilling Productivity Report, showed that since January 2012 natural gas production in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions has accounted for 85% of the increase of natural gas production in the U.S. EIA attributes this steady production increase to technological advances including improvements in the precision and efficiency of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.
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