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He says the Bakken has a layer of nearly impermeable shale that sits above the oil-bearing reservoirs.
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Last year Chevron announced that test wells drilled 29, 000 feet deep into Buckskin found oil-bearing sands 300 feet thick.
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Geological forces lifted these oil-bearing rocks up toward the surface of the earth, within reach of water and bacteria.
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Most of the oil-bearing countries are at best fragile democracies emerging from long periods of autocratic postcolonial single-party or military rule.
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In July 2011 the company drilled an exploration well on the Fulla prospect, where reservoir sands were found to be oil-bearing.
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Sea water is pumped into the oil-bearing rocks deep below the seabed.
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Dana Petroleum Egypt has reported several significant exploration successes at North Zeit Bay during 2011, including encountering good quality oil-bearing sands and establishing two gas condensate field discoveries.
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Operated by Anadarko with 30%, that well was another monster, going down more than 31, 000 feet in 5, 800 feet of water, and discovering a remarkable 1, 000 feet of oil-bearing rock with very promising reservoir properties.
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Specially formulated lubricants are used in fracking, which involves pumping water, fine sand and fracking fluids underground to split open oil- and gas-bearing rocks.
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What if it is right there trapped in oil and natural gas-bearing shale, enough to possibly supply our U.S. needs for centuries?
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Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, pumps millions of gallons of water mixed with fine sand and chemicals deep into oil and gas wells to crack gas-bearing rock.
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