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Vol. 16, No. 7 Week of February 13, 2011
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry


New drilling method opens US oil fields

Combination of horizontal drilling, multiple fracturing, chemicals, releases gas trapped in shale; production could reach 2M bpd

Jonathan Fahey

Associated Press Energy Writer

A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude. Companies are investing billions of dollars to get at oil deposits scattered across North Dakota, Colorado, Texas and....

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More fractures, chemicals

Fleshed out in last year

Bakken, Eagle Ford estimated to yield 4 billion barrels each

Shale gas resource bigger


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