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Shale drilling changed everything.

In old-school oil and gas, you drilled hoping to find something. With shale? We already know the resource is in the ground.

Take the Marcellus Shale, for example - right here, it’s 10–12,000 feet below the surface and full of natural gas.

The question isn’t if it’s there… it’s:
How much does it cost to drill?
How productive will the well be?
Is it worth the investment?

Conventional vertical wells might run you $2.5 million, but a 2-mile horizontal shale well in the Marcellus? That’s $8–10 million. It’s not about discovery, it’s about precision engineering.

Some areas are hotter, some zones are thicker. It’s about optimizing recovery, not rolling the dice.

This is why modern oil and gas is starting to look more like manufacturing than wildcatting.

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