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Re:Obama bans new oil drilling in Arctic Ocean by astrodust on Saturday November 19, 2016 @02:00PM (#12994995)
Pretty much any oil you can think of is cheaper to extract than arctic shale oil. That's an extremely dangerous environment to be operating in, and whatever you extract must be piped out, which incurs significant infrastructure costs as well.

This doesn't even touch on what an environmental time bomb this is.

Re:Obama bans new oil drilling in Arctic Ocean by maxerickson on Saturday November 19, 2016 @02:03PM (#12995013)
Are we talking about the same thing?

Wolfcamp shale is in west Texas (see my link in this thread). It seems more likely to me over the next few years that west Texas sees a boom than Arctic drilling sees intense interest.