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Alexander Hoffelder
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03/29/2008 9:33 AM	Alert
America is sitting on top of a super massive 200 billion barrel Oil Field that could potentially make America Energy Independent and until now has largely gone unnoticed. Thanks to new technology the Bakken Formation in North Dakota could boost America’s Oil reserves by an incredible 10 times, giving western economies the trump card against OPEC’s short squeeze on oil supply and making Iranian and Venezuelan threats of disrupted supply irrelevant. In the next 30 days the USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) will release a new report giving an accurate resource assessment of the Bakken Oil Formation that covers North Dakota and portions of South Dakota and Montana. With new horizontal drilling technology it is believed that from 175 to 500 billion barrels of recoverable oil are held in this 200,000 square mile reserve that was initially discovered in 1951. The USGS did an initial study back in 1999 that estimated 400 billion recoverable barrels were present but with prices bottoming out at $10 a barrel back then the report was dismissed because of the higher cost of horizontal drilling techniques that would be needed, estimated at $20-$40 a barrel. It was not until 2007, when EOG Resources of Texas started a frenzy when they drilled a single well in Parshal N.D. that is expected to yield 700,000 barrels of oil that real excitement and money started to flow in North Dakota. Marathon Oil is investing $1.5 billion and drilling 300 new wells in what is expected to be one of the greatest booms in Oil discovery since Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1938. The US imported about 14 million barrels of Oil per day in 2007 , which means US consumers sent about $340 Billion Dollars over seas building palaces in Dubai and propping up unfriendly regimes around the World, if 200 billion barrels of oil at $90 a barrel are recovered in the high plains the added wealth to the US economy would be $18 Trillion Dollars which would go a long way in stabilizing the US trade deficit and could cut the cost of oil in half in the long run. http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news2.13s.html

Allen Dawson
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03/31/2008 11:31 AM	Alert
While I agree that this is great news, dont get to excited yet. Just because it is there does not mean we are going to use it. Some Liberal group will try to find any reson at all for us not to. They will try to find a bug,plant,tree,animal or anything else at all to stop us from drilling. They dont care if we have to pay third world countries that destroys the enviroment getting the resources we need. Just as long as they can stop the "Evil oil companies" from making a profit.

Roger Meadows
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06/13/2008 1:03 PM	Alert
Check out Northern Oil and Gas (NOG) in the stock market. They have exclusive rights to much of that area. It's stock keeps going up.

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