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6. Development in the United States
6.1 Shale gas boom
The first natural gas well in the USA was drilled in 1821 – 38 years before the famous "Colonel" Drake well in Pennsylvania – was drilled for shale gas. At a depth of 9 m in what was to become the Marcellus Shale in Fredonia, New York, it was dug by shovel and supplied two stores, two warehouses and a flour mill with gas for lighting.
But the real boom in shale gas production only began in the mid-2000s, with the systematic use of hydraulic fracturing (figure 29 )
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