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Russia Adopts Texas Drilling to Revive Soviet Oil Fields: Energy

2013-03-17 23:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Bloomberg: Fracking isnt just for shale. In Russia, producers are importing techniques from the U.S. to squeeze billions of dollars of extra oil from Soviet-era fields. TNK-BP, Russias third-largest producer, will use hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling in almost half the wells it sinks this year, a sixfold increase in just two years, the company said. OAO Rosneft (ROSN), OAO Lukoil (LKOH) and OAO Gazprom Neft have similar plans. So-called fracking, the process of blasting oil from...

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