A reader sent me a link to this story.
The Lincoln (Nebraska) Journal Star is reporting: Southwest Nebraska is experiencing a mini oil boom --
Jim Gohl has seen oil booms before in Nebraska.
The early 1960s
brought a big boom, and there was another one in the late 1970s and
early 1980s, said Gohl, who lives in the Hitchcock County town of
Culbertson and is a commissioner with the Nebraska Oil and Gas
Commission.
What's happening in his neck of the woods these days
could be the best thing to come along for the state's oil industry since
the last boom ended.
"I guess this would be the next best thing since that," Gohl said.
While
hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as fracking, is spurring oil
booms in North Dakota, Texas, Colorado and Wyoming, the oil boom in
southwest Nebraska is of the more traditional variety.
Companies
are using a technique called three-dimensional seismic imaging, which
bounces sound waves off underground rock structures to reveal areas that
might contain oil and gas.
That allows oil companies to see previously hard-to-find deposits of oil.
Bill
Sydow, director of the Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, said the
3-D seismic technique has played a big role in the increase in oil
exploration and production in southwest Nebraska.
"The prices have helped, but I think the success of the 3-D is a big part of it," Sydow said.
Sydow
did not have final statewide production numbers for 2013 as of last
week, but he estimated there were around 2.8 million barrels of oil
produced in the state. That would be a more than 10 percent increase
over 2012 and the best year for oil production in Nebraska since 2001.
Pipelines? Who are they gonna call? TransCanada. LOL.
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