With huge new amounts of lease condensate coming from America's condensate - rich tight oil fields — the ones
tapped by hydraulic fracturing or fracking — the United States isn't producing quite as much actual crude oil as the raw numbers would lead us to believe.
The topic is increasingly in the spotlight as the land grab for gas leases —
by drilling companies seeking to
tap shale deposits via high - volume,
hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling (fracking)-- continues through New York State and the nation.