Carefully (the wax is hot!) pour beeswax into the molds, up to the edge. Pour any extra filtered wax back to the melting container to keep it liquid. Wait for 10-20 minutes until the candles cool a bit and the wax concaves. Using a thin wooden skewer, poke two or three relief holes in the wax around the wick.
Located a few thousand feet below the Marcellus shale play, the Utica actually extends much farther geographically, covering a great deal of Pennsylvania, New York, West Virginia and Ohio. Offering natural gas, the Utica is thought to be rich in liquidsâespecially attractive in this pricing environment.
The Niobrara shale formation is situated in northeastern Colorado and parts of adjacent Wyoming, Nebraska, and Kansas. Primarily an oil play, it is in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which has long been a major oil and gas province. An emerging play, the Niobrara is in its early stages and companies have been busy leasing land for future drilling.