RBC I Congressman Scott Tipton (R-CO) issued the following statement in response to Thursday’s announcement by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) that the Mancos Shale deposit in the Piceance Basin has the potential to be the second largest natural gas deposit in the United States.
According to the USGS, the undiscovered technically recoverable resources in the Mancos deposit include a mean estimate of 66 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, up from 2002-2003 estimates…