A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert

Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by JshWright on Sunday November 20, 2016 @06:55AM (#12998389)

More like confusing React and Redux. Horizontal drilling (React) without fracking (Redux) is pretty common, but it's pretty rare to frack without horizontal drilling.

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Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by ta2507823 on Sunday November 20, 2016 @08:28AM (#12998729)

Indeed - I'd say this is close enough for the lay person. I've been on many vertical wells that were fractured (out side of the US), but that is mostly irrelevant to what is being discussed. It is certainly true that shale gas was only cost effective due to horizontal drilling + fracking.

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Re:A $900B Oil Treasure Lies Beneath West Texas Desert by ameesdotme on Sunday November 20, 2016 @07:55AM (#12998617)

First we brought JavaScript to the back-end, now we're bringing JavaScript to shale gas extraction.

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