The petroleum industry began in Oil City, Pennsylvania and, today, it is, once again, one of the top oil and gas states, thanks to the shale revolution.

The National Transit Building in downtown Oil City, Pennsylvania, is where it all really began. John D. Rockefeller had a small corner office on the upper floor and it was anything but extravagant, but from there the industry spread around the world helping to make modern civilization possible. Today, according to a recent study put out by the American Petroleum Institute, Pennsylvania is again one of the top oil and gas states.

Significantly, the title of the full study is The Impacts of the Natural Gas and Oil Industry on the US Economy i..., with gas listed before oil. Maybe it was just a grammatical thing, but there is every reason to put natural gas first, particularly when it comes to Pennsylvania. Th shale revolution has returned the Commonwealth to near the top of the heap among oil and gas states.

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