Texas can’t ‘swim’ in oil that hasn’t yet been discovered

Texas now “swims” in 20 billion bbl of crude oil that the US Geological Survey has “discovered” in the Pennsylvanian-Permian Wolfcamp shale of West Texas.
Nov. 23, 2016

Texas now “swims” in 20 billion bbl of crude oil that the US Geological Survey has “discovered” in the Pennsylvanian-Permian Wolfcamp shale of West Texas.

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Bob Tippee

Bob Tippee

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Bob Tippee has been chief editor of Oil & Gas Journal since January 1999 and a member of the Journal staff since October 1977. Before joining the magazine, he worked as a reporter at the Tulsa World and served for four years as an officer in the US Air Force. A native of St. Louis, he holds a degree in journalism from the University of Tulsa.

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