New Oil Patches Sprout Across Nation

The Wall Street Journal ^ | NOVEMBER 13, 2010 | DANIEL GILBERT

[MinorityRepublican]

Paul Bordovsky, left, and John Braudaway talk last week by the well on Mr. Bordovsky's 642-acre ranch.

KARNES CITY, Texas

[ReformedBeckite]

I grew up in the Hillsdale area, and I know there is a bunch of little oil wells in the Hanover/Horton area south of Jackson and they have been there for a long time. Is this the area that they are drilling or are they drilling all around in southern Michigan.

[cripplecreek]

I grew up in hanover but now live between Napoleon and Manchester. They’re drilling all over around here.

[M-cubed]

Well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[R W Reactionairy]

The “oil shale” rock in the Green River formation for the most part is not really shale at all and contains kerogen, a solid, not oil. It needs to be heated to a few hundred degrees for a few months or to a much higher temperature for a shorter period of time to cook down / reduce the kerogen to a liquid.

Too bad that the gas and oil trapped in immpermiable shales [otherwise impermiable until fracture stimulated] sounds a bit like “oil shale.” The two are much different form of hydrocarbons.