Utica Scramble: Who's Buying and Selling in the Shale

With only 45 producing wells, the Utica Shale is still a very young play. From the outside, it's hard to gauge how much value is waiting to be unlocked when some producers are scrambling to get in -- and others to get out. In this video, Fool.com contributors Aimee Duffy and Tyler Crowe discuss some big deals and evaluate what we know about the production story in the Utica right now.

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