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To: PubliusMM
Hmmm, suppose any of that equipment could be put to use drilling for oil? In the US?

The rig pictured on the article web page is capable of drilling for oil but it is fairly light duty and can't go very deep. It is particularly telling that caprock formations were causing problems. It is likely there were more problems than are revealed in the article.

26 posted on 12/12/2009 2:56:06 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45
The rig pictured on the article web page is capable of drilling for oil but it is fairly light duty and can't go very deep

Yep. Nothing like what I am used to (rated for 20,000 ft.).

35 posted on 12/12/2009 4:51:46 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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