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TwitterNATURAL GAS IS MONEY IN THE GROUND TO A GAS COMPANY. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF GETTING TO IT...AND THANKS TO EVER-IMPROVING DRILLING TECHNOLOGY, THEY'RE GETTING TO IT FASTER AND MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN EVER. KSLA NEWS 12'S CAROLYN ROY TAKES US ON A TOUR OF A DRILLING RIG IN ACTION. THE NATURAL GAS TRAPPED DEEP BENEATH THE ARKLATEX IS ABOUT TO TRANSFORM THE LANDSCAPE UP HERE ON THE SURFACE, LITERALLY...THANKS TO RIGS LIKE THESE. "Some of it's supports, a lot of it's lifting". THESE TOWERS OF STEEL, CABLE AND MACHINERY ARE CRITICAL TO THE PROCESS OF PULLING THE PRECIOUS MINERAL FROM AN ANCIENT SHALE FORMATION NEARLY A MILE AND A HALF UNDERGROUND. BORN 300-MILLION YEARS AGO WHEN MOST OF TEXAS AND LOUISIANA WERE COVERED BY A SHALLOW OCEAN. IRELAND the ocean eventually dried up and there were continent shifts over geologic time that eventually covered up what was the bottom of the ocean and is now the shale. SMALL ORGANISMS EMBEDDED IN THE MUD WERE TRAPPED...AND THE MUD HARDENED INTO A TIGHTLY-PACKED LAYER OF ROCK. UNDER HEAT AND PRESSURE.THAT ORGANIC MATERIAL BROKE DOWN INTO METHANE.WHAT WE KNOW AS NATURAL GAS. GEOLOGISTS AND GAS COMPANIES HAVE LONG KNOWN THAT GAS IS TRAPPED IN THE SHALE -- IT'S ONLY RECENTLY THAT TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO GET TO IT. "the technology of everything involved is advanced, making , you know, they could have done this 20 yrs ago, but what we're doing now on an avg of 21 days may have taken them 60 or 70 days". AND HIGHER GAS PRICES HAVE ...
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