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The Race to Drill America’s Longest Oil and Gas Wells

September 15, 2023 0

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Companies vie to impress a skeptical Wall Street by eking out growth

Range Resources, with a site in Claysville, Pa., is among U.S. energy companies drilling ever-longer wells. Nate Smallwood for The Wall Street Journal

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