The deep-water wells that EPA drilled are located near a natural gas reservoir.

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This would only happen however if the rocks were extremely porous, yet if this were the case the natural gas reservoir would have never existed in the first place.

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By now investors expected Davy Jones to be flowing 50 million cubic feet a day of natural gas from its giant reservoir.

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The shale acts as both the source and the reservoir for the natural gas.

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