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good news? At this time, what good news can there be? Looking up, Reagan looked at James and saw that James' hands were trembling. He said, We don't have to worry about the energy problem anymore. Our scientists have already solved the energy problem!

Solve the energy problem? What a joke!

Our scientific and technical personnel have carried out repeated experiments on the technology of exploiting shale oil, and finally determined the technology of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Now, these technologies are very mature. In our energy field, this It's a technological revolution, and this technological revolution can be compared to Drake's drilling of our first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859! James' face was full of excitement.

Shale oil! This is currently the most suitable alternative energy source in the United States. Although it has been demonstrated for a long time, the exploitation of shale oil is quite difficult. After all, this thing is different from ordinary crude oil. It is a solid form. How to convert shale oil in solid form? Mining out is very technically difficult.

And now, with the international crude oil price soaring, the United States has to find an alternative way, and now, they have finally found it. This way is horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing!

Drilling is carried out at the storage location of shale oil, first downward, and then horizontal drilling. After the drilling is completed, a large amount of chemical substances are mixed with water, sand, and stones to make fracturing fluid by using a high-pressure pump on the ground, and then poured into the rock Deep and fracture the rock so that oil or natural gas can be released. In this way, the production efficiency of shale oil is greatly improved and the production cost of shale oil is reduced!

The United States cannot do without energy, so the United States must use all its strength to maintain its dominance in the Middle East, but now, with the revolutionary breakthrough in shale oil exploitation, the United States has finally found an alternative!

James is very excited, but other people still don't understand it, including Bush, whose family is a big oil businessman in Texas. There is more attention to oil.

But now, looking at James' expression, Bush couldn't help asking: James, what level can this technology enable our shale oil production to reach?

James was talking incoherently, he was too excited, and what Bush asked was the point.

We now have 18 areas in the United States that have proved that shale oil reserves are rich and have value for exploitation, and our new oil exploitation method can reduce the cost of exploitation to 50 dollars a barrel. Now, the entire In the energy sector, smart investors continue to enter this field. Our most conservative estimate is that by the end of this year, with the launch of a series of new shale oil well projects, our daily shale oil production will , can reach 2 million barrels, and next year, our shale oil production can reach four to five million barrels per day.

the end of this year,

It can reach a daily output of 2 million barrels! And next year, it can reach a daily output of four to five million barrels! Hearing this, everyone was stunned.

What is this concept?

Now, the daily demand for oil in the world is 60 million barrels, while the daily demand of the United States is more than 10 million barrels!

Now, the United States continues to increase its domestic oil production, and its daily crude oil production has exceeded 7 million barrels from the original 5 million barrels. It only needs 3 million barrels of oil imports, and these oil imports have now turned to After Canada and the United Kingdom, there is no need to import from the Middle East at all.

Now, shale oil extraction technology has made a breakthrough. The daily output of our shale oil will reach 2 million barrels this year and four to five million barrels next year, which means that the United States does not need to import any more Oil, and even become an oil exporter!

What about our current shale oil reserves? Bush continued to ask.

After our continuous exploration, now we have discovered 264 billion barrels of crude oil reserves, more than Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union! And half of them are shale oil. James said: Half of the states in our country are rich in oil. Among them, Texas, which has the most abundant reserves, has a total oil reserve of 60 billion barrels, while the recoverable reserves of the Monterey shale oil base currently under development are predicted to be 15.4 billion barrels.

A few simple numbers were reported, and in an instant, a smile was on Bush's face. In this way, the United States does not need to worry about the oil crisis at all now, and the United States will soon become an oil exporter!

In the past, because the United States did not have suitable means to exploit shale oil, and due to strategic considerations, the development of domestic oil fields in the United States was restricted. The United States needed to import a large amount of oil from the Middle East to meet its energy needs. Now, under various pressures, the oil extraction technology in the United States has advanced by leaps and bounds. This time the shale oil revolution has made the United States no longer have to worry about energy issues!

In terms of oil reserves, the United States has 264 billion barrels, which is definitely the largest in the world. Saudi Arabia's oil reserves are only 212 billion barrels, Canada's oil reserves are 167 billion barrels, and Iran's oil reserves are 143 billion barrels, which are not as many as the United States!

This is really good news!

If this news had come earlier, we wouldn't have launched a war in the Middle East. Bush gritted his teeth and said a sentence, which brought everyone back to reality.

The US war in the Middle East has been a complete failure. Up to now, it is still a mess. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been captured by the Iraqis. Turkey is in turmoil. He was dragged into the quagmire of war, and now, this war has become a war that does not need to be fought at all!

Why didn't you say this news earlier! Everyone is itchy.

National geological exploration and the use of new mining technologies will take time, and we have not collected all these data until now. James seemed to know the complaints in the hearts of the people, so he couldn't help but said.

Now, in fact, it is already early, and some data have not yet been counted. For example, the exploitation of shale oil, the oil wells that are now exploited by hydraulic fracturing, have the longest time, and have only undergone four water injections, and have not yet discovered The amount of oil extracted is declining. However, with continuous extraction, the oil well will dry up. To what extent, it will no longer have the value of extraction. It needs further use to know. At the same time, this extraction method, in fact It is equivalent to producing small-scale earthquakes again and again, and it is unknown whether it will have an impact on the environment.