drilling
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Several Louisiana parishes have sued oil companies in state court, alleging that decades of drilling, dredging and refining damaged the coastal zone and violated state environmental rules.
The effects of that reverberate through to companies that farm out their drilling and fracking equipment to oil producers.
While the shale drilling boom has unleashed a flood of oil from places like West Texas and North Dakota, it is often not the right kind of crude for American refiners.
But drilling in Venezuela is still likely more expensive than other areas, because of the heavy oil produced there, said Jim Burkhard, S&P Global’s head of Crude Oil Research.
From Barron's
The territory banned new oil drilling there in 2021, largely over environmental concerns.
From Barron's
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