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good news? At this time, what good news is there? Raising his head, Reagan looked at James and saw that James's hands were shaking and said, "We don't have to worry about the energy problem anymore, our scientists have 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 shale oil extraction, 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 when Drake drilled our first oil well in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859!" James' face was full of excitement.

Shale oil! This is 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. It is technically difficult to mine.

And now, with the high price of international crude oil, the United States has to find an alternative way, and now, they have finally found this way, that is, horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing!

Drilling is carried out at the storage location of shale oil, first downward, and then horizontally. After drilling, a high-pressure pump on the ground is used to mix a large amount of chemical substances with water, sand, and stones to make fracturing fluid, and then pour it into the rock. Deep and fracturing rock, so that oil or natural gas can be released, this method greatly improves the production efficiency of shale oil and reduces the production cost of shale oil!

The United States cannot leave energy, so the United States will use all its strength to maintain its dominance in the Middle East, but now, the revolutionary breakthrough in shale oil production has finally allowed the United States to find an alternative way!

James is very excited, but other people still don't understand, including Bush, his family is a big oil businessman in Texas, even he, now troubled by the problems of the Middle East, is not in the shale More attention on the oil side.

And now, looking at James' expression, Bush couldn't help but ask, "James, what level can this technology allow our shale oil production to reach?"

James was incoherent, he was so excited, and what Bush asked was the point.

"We now have 18 areas in the United States that have proven shale oil reserves that are worthy of extraction, and our new oil extraction method can reduce the cost of extraction to $50 a barrel. Now, the entire In the energy field, shrewd investors are beginning to step into this field. Our most conservative estimate is that by the end of this year, with a series of new shale oil well projects being launched, our daily shale oil output will be , it can reach 2 million barrels, and next year, our shale oil production can reach four or five million barrels per day.”

By the end of this year, it will reach 2 million barrels of daily production! And next year, the daily output can reach four or five million barrels! Hearing this, everyone was stunned.

What is this concept?

Now, the global oil demand is 60 million barrels a day, and the daily demand in the United States is more than 10 million barrels!

Now, the United States continues to increase its domestic oil production. The daily production of crude oil 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 In Canada and the United Kingdom, there is no need to import from the Middle East at all.

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

"What about our current reserves of shale oil?" Bush continued.

"After our continuous exploration, we have now discovered 264 billion barrels of crude oil reserves, which is more than Saudi Arabia and the Soviet Union! And half of it is shale oil." James said: "Half of our states have abundant oil reserves. Reserves, of which the most abundant state, Texas, has a total oil reserves of up to 60 billion barrels, and the recoverable reserves of the Monterey shale oil base currently under development are forecast to be 15.4 billion barrels."

A few simple numbers were reported, and in an instant, a smile appeared 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 is about to become an oil exporter!

In the past, the United States had no 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 own energy needs. Now, under various pressures, the United States' oil extraction technology has advanced by leaps and bounds. This time the shale oil revolution has made the United States no longer have to worry about energy problems!

In terms of oil reserves, the United States' 264 billion barrels 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, all of which are not as much as the United States!

This is really good news!

"If this news came earlier~www.wuxiax.com~ we wouldn't have to start a war in the Middle East at all." Bush gritted his teeth and said a sentence, which brought everyone back to reality.

The U.S. war in the Middle East has been a complete failure. So far, it has been a mess. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been captured by Iraqis, Turkey is in turmoil, the Kurds are about to seal their borders, and their ally Israel has also It was dragged into the quagmire of war, but now, this war has become a war that does not need to be fought at all!

Why didn't you tell this news earlier! Everyone has itchy teeth.

"The national geological exploration and the use of new mining technologies all take time. Until now, we have collected all these data." James seemed to know the complaints in the hearts of everyone, and couldn't help but say.

Now, it is actually already early, and some data have not yet been counted. For example, the exploitation of shale oil, the oil well exploited by hydraulic fracturing, the longest time, has only experienced four times of watering, and it has not been found yet. The phenomenon of the decrease in the amount of oil mined, however, with the continuous exploitation, the oil well will also dry up, and to what extent, it will no longer be of exploitation value, and it needs further use to know. At the same time, this kind of exploitation method actually It is equivalent to making small-scale earthquakes again and again, and it is unknown whether they have any impact on the environment.