Their is a shale bed under Western MA and CT to the West of the Connecticut River but it is to shallow and probably immature from what I have read. But then again they don't know who Harold Vinegar is...
http://www.timesofisrael.com/should-israel-get-oil-out-of-vinegar-for-an-energy-revolution/
“She says, ‘I can be packed by tomorrow morning.’”
And so it was that on October 31, 2008, after 32 happy years, Harold Vinegar retired from his job as chief scientist at Shell Oil. And barely five weeks later, on December 7, 2008, along with wife Robin and his son, a cartographer in the same business, he made aliya.
Very interesting article.
Thanks