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February 6, 2015 By SEO Admin

Texas fracking company reportedly exiting Utica shale play, closing Cambridge office

GoFrac LLC, a fracking business working the Utica shale play, is closing in Ohio.

A few years ago the Texas company bought 90 acres in Guernsey County and opened an operation in Cambridge, its only one in Ohio. It made significant investments, including rail spurs and silos, Norm Blanchard, executive director of the Community Improvement Corporation in Cambridge, told me, and it once indicated it could hire as many as 250 people.

But eastern Ohio’s Utica shale play, like other energy spots across…