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Oil Deposit Could Increase US Reserves 10x

Posted by kdawson on from the swimming-in-it dept.

HighWizard notes the upcoming release, on Thursday, of a report by the US Geological Survey on the Bakken Formation. This is an oil field covering 200,000 square miles and underlying parts of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan. A geologist who began surveying the field, before dying in 2000, believed it may hold as much as 1 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Later estimates have ranged to the hundreds of billions of barrels. Such a reserve would go a long way toward securing US energy independence.

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  1. Hey Canada!! by mikew909 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I Drink your Milkshake you see?? ....

  2. Exactly by Belial6 · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Thank you. I can't count the number of people I have heard try to use this stupid theory to 'prove' that we are running out of oil. Unfortunately, it isn't just crack pots that believe it. It is also the stupid and intellectually lazy that believe it.

    For those of you that think it has any validity, try this 6 step experiment. 1) Get a drinking straw. 2) Go to a pool. 3) Start sucking the water out of the pool as fast as you can with that straw. (You probably should not swallow the water) 4) Go to the ocean. 5) Start sucking the water out of the ocean as fast as you can with the same straw. (You definitely should not swallow the water) 6) Now explain to us all how the amount of water that you sucked through the straw was dictated by reserve you are pulling from. Just to make sure that this is a legitimate scientific experiment, repeat it a hundred times, and see if you get the same results.