Photographs Worth A Thousand Words -- February 7, 2016

From The Los Angeles Times today, a photograph of the oil patch in California:

For a comparable photo of the Bakken, go go this link: http://www.vernwhittenphotography.net/wes8914/, and at the link skip to photograph #21 of 38 photographs in that set.

The two photographs, side-by-side, might be the best example to "describe" the difference between vertical wells in conventional oil fields, and horizontal fields in tight plays, like the Bakken.