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Why "Drill, Baby, Drill!" Does Not Translate Into Effective National Energy Policy

The lack of success for the current drilling is because they can't drill where the untapped fields are. Always the same refrain, it will be "whatever so many years" before it will ba available, so why bother! Todays Drilling technology is miles ahead from ten years ago. Wells are drilled in a quarter of the time required than then and the new enhanced recovery techniques and production proceedures are vastly expanding the amount of hyrocarbons recovered from new field discoveries.

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