[ckilmer]

The Cline Shale formation in the Permian basin of west texas will probably get press in the next year or two as being in the same league as Baaken and eagle ford.

[PA Engineer]

The Cline Shale formation in the Permian basin of west texas will probably get press in the next year or two as being in the same league as Baaken and eagle ford.

Wow. That one was off my radar because of what is happening locally. This is very interesting:

Estimates are the Cline could hold more than 30 billion barrels of recoverable oil, exceeding both the Bakken fields in North Dakota and Eagle Ford in South Texas by nearly 50 percent. With the Cline projected to be 200 to 550 feet deep, that would be the equivalent of 10 Eagle Ford shales stacked on top of each other. The shale contains 85 percent oil and liquids-rich gas.

The United States could easily be energy self-sufficient as well as a major player in the export market for years to come. The only things I see holding it up are qualified manpower mobilization and green utopianism.