Ohio's oil and gas industry celebrates its 150th anniversary this year! From the Suburbanite: "While energy, economics and jobs dominate the headlines, a homegrown industry has been supplying these benefits for a century and a half in the Buckeye State. This year, Ohio’s natural gas and crude oil industry celebrates its 150th anniversary, and its benefits to the state may surprise you."
For an article celebrating that achievement and the new technology available to continue that success in the Marcellus and Utica Shales, see here (from the Marietta Times). "'We're talking about something so big and vast that it could provide (much of the nation) with 50 to 100 years of gas production,' said Bob Chase, professor and chairman of the Department of Petroleum Engineering and Geology at Marietta College."
You can find more here, at the Ohio Oil & Gas Energy Education Program.