shale
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A U.S. shale producer like Diamondback Energy might enjoy just a 30% lift.
In the Permian basin of New Mexico and west Texas, for example, producers can more quickly and economically ramp up extraction of light crude oil trapped in shale rock.
From Los Angeles Times
The SPR also uses the same pipelines and ports as shale producers, so infrastructure to carry the extra oil is constrained.
Sinha said Valor was inspired by U.S. shale drillers, who unearthed an abundance of domestic oil and natural gas from deposits that were always known but had been beyond the reach of profitable drilling.
The reserve was created in 1975 after the Arab oil embargo exposed the risks of relying heavily on foreign oil, decades before the shale boom turned the U.S. into the world’s largest oil producer.
From Barron's
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