Consider this scenario: You go to a flea market,
and spot an electric motor that looks similar to the one on the wash-down pump
in your barn that is starting to make noise.
The first bite of a $106 million drilling
project to stabilize the earthen portion of the Center Hill Dam with a barrier
wall recently was taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District
and its contractor, Bauer Foundation Corp., as the auger of a giant drill rig
turned up the first dirt to the cheers of spectators.
The Utica Shale contains about 38 trillion cubic
feet (TCF) of undiscovered, technically recoverable natural gas (at the mean
estimate) according to the first assessment of this continuous (unconventional)
natural gas accumulation by the U. S. Geological Survey.