shale
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Aguilar favors U.S. shale, Canadian crude and refiners, while services firms and companies with Middle East exposure face headwinds.
A U.S. shale producer like Diamondback Energy might enjoy just a 30% lift.
In the Permian basin of New Mexico and west Texas, for example, producers can more quickly and economically ramp up extraction of light crude oil trapped in shale rock.
From Los Angeles Times
The SPR also uses the same pipelines and ports as shale producers, so infrastructure to carry the extra oil is constrained.
Sinha said Valor was inspired by U.S. shale drillers, who unearthed an abundance of domestic oil and natural gas from deposits that were always known but had been beyond the reach of profitable drilling.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
