The main reason the production from places like the Bakken and Eagle Ford are fast climbing is they are mostly private lands.
Makes sense.
Lots of federal land in the Bakken area, BLM land, national grasslands and of course T Roosevelt National Park.
Last I heard, and this was within the past year, there was ONE drilling rig on federal ground.
That was just something I picked up in a business meeting, maybe outdated scuttlebutt by now, but the point remains that virtually nothing is taking place on federal land.