Like an individual oil field, there are only so many barrels to pump out before the field runs dry.

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Once production gets started, the field would pump out 1.5 million barrels of oil per day, to be shared amongst the investment group.

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Too many wells release the natural pressure in the field, like fizz from a soda can, and it becomes too expensive to pump the oil out.

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