Sentences with phrase «tight oil fields»

David Hughes, of Global Sustainability Research Inc., pointed out that production from tight oil fields like North Dakota's Bakken and Texas» Eagle Ford plays quickly reach what he called «middle age,» when production begins to fall off.

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.

Not exact matches

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

Of the 800,000 b / d increase in actual field production of crude oil, almost all of the gain has come from shale and other tight formations that horizontal fracturing methods have only recently opened up.

On Twitter, Jeff Tollefson, a reporter for Nature who's written on pollution from America's shale boom, pointed to the Bakken oil fields as illustrating why tighter rules for existing industry facilities is vital: