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  • From: <bob@4agoodauction.com>
  • To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Texas
  • Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:55:08 -0500

>Now the shale they're drilling into in TX isn't the same thing at all.
They're able to get gas and oil there. Still, the oil business in TX pretty
much died years ago, and the U.S. oil production peaked about 1970. There
are no new significant discoveries in this country. This is all common
knowledge in the oil industry. Gas drilling got a boost recently from
special tax breaks but without those subsidies there'd be almost no new gas
>drilling in this country.
 
This Barnett Shale is a bonanza. One of the biggest plays however deep it is. Some times found from 5,600 to 8,000 feet down. Takes a lot of money to drill just one well. Here in Fort Worth, Tx. There are producing wells down the street in both directions. Below in Kennedale there are 100's of new wells. No this is one of the largest finds in history for natural gas. There are two very deep layers that go from North Texas all the way down I35 to Austin the state capital. Bob c



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