Oil Watch: Drill Baby Drill

Watch: Drill Baby Drill

theoildrum.com 30 Jan '13, 10am

Oil Watch: Drill Baby Drill

In addition to o-t's informative post I'll toss out another huge distinction between the US and most of the world: the number of oil and gas operators. Here's a list of just the largest 50 US companies (http://www.petrostrategies.org/Links/Biggest_US_Based_Oil_and_Gas_Compan... ). Most won't have to go far down the list before they see names they've never seen before. Beyond that list there are many hundreds of smaller companies most of which, after 38 years in the oil patch, even I’ve never heard of. Having access to privately owned leases is one thing but unless there are enough companies to pursue them it won't happen. In addition there are hundreds of other companies in the process that will never drill a single well but play a vital role in the process. These companies generate drilling projects and sell them to operators. Other companies focus of taking mineral lease...

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@MikeSoraghan » 30 Jan '13, 5pm
RT @SkyTruth: Lots of interesting global and US stats here - RT @theoildrum: Oil Watch: Drill Baby Drill [link]
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Drill Baby Drill - Interesting discussion at TOD - especially Rockman [link]
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@dstahl » 30 Jan '13, 1pm
In 1995 there was a total of 1738 oil & gas rigs drilling globally by February 2012 the number doubled to 3850. [link]
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The Oil Drum | Oil Watch: Drill Baby Drill - [link] / the fix is in #AKleg will you still brag about #Alaska after its looted?
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Drill baby Drill. US number of #oil+#gas rigs 1995: 737. Oct´11: 2010 rigs. Interesting post by Euan Means @TheOilDrum [link]
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