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JANUARY 29   2010   BY ROBERT SWIFT (HARRISBURG BUREAU CHIEF) Published: January 28, 2010 TIMES-TRIBUNE FILE An Exco Resources gas well is in place along Route 247 in Greenfield Twp. near the Skyline Golf Course. Related stories State legislative panel probes water quality issues related to gas drilling EPA creates tipline for reports of suspicious gas drilling activities New gas drilling companies targeting Wayne County HARRISBURG - The Rendell administration is hiring 68 new staffers to oversee natural gas drilling operations in the Marcellus Shale formation, a major exception to state government's shrinking payroll in tight fiscal times. These new employees for the Department of Environmental Protection will handle a number of jobs ranging from inspecting and monitoring activities at natural gas well sites to processing thousands of applications for Marcellus Shale drilling permits. A sizeable but undetermined number of the new hires will be based at DEP's Northeast Region office in downtown Wilkes-Barre, Acting DEP Secretary John Hanger said in an interview Thursday. "We realize there is major new expansion there (in the northeast)," added Mr. Hanger. "We want to boost the number of people in the Wilkes-Barre area who will be working on this." The regional office is the hub for enforcement of state environmental laws and rules in 11 counties, including Carbon, Lackawanna, Lehigh, Luzerne, Monroe, Northampton, Pike, Schuylkill, Susquehanna, Wayne and Wyoming. The new hires will be placed on the job during the next three to six months. Even though the taxpayer-supported state General Fund is running in the red, DEP can afford to hire new gas inspectors because their salaries are paid using revenue from increased fees charged to natural gas drillers. The agency implemented a higher fee scale last year to replace a flat $100 well application fee. The new fee scale is based on the length and type of wells being used. It is designed to reap revenue from the drilling to reach the deep pockets of natural gas in Marcellus Shale formations. "These positions will all be paid for by drilling fees," said Mr. Hanger. He anticipates the new fee system will bring in $11 million in revenue this year. DEP received $700,000 annually under the old fee system. DEP hired 37 natural gas inspectors last year as enhanced revenue from the costlier drilling fees started to flow in. Eleven of these staffers were assigned to DEP's regional office at Williamsport. DEP also has inspectors in western Pennsylvania where both shallow and deep well drilling activity occurs. DEP was hit with job layoffs after the overdue state budget was enacted in October, but the agency's oil and gas division is considered exempt from layoffs or hiring freezes, added Mr. Hanger. All told, 193 agency employees work full-time on oil and gas regulatory issues. In a statement, Gov. Ed Rendell said the hiring of new inspectors is justified by expectations that the number of Marcellus Shale drilling permit applications will jump threefold this year to 5,200. "The industry's projected growth in 2010 means that we need additional inspectors to ensure oil and gas companies follow environmental laws and regulations," said Mr. Rendell. DEP also plans to offer proposed regulations for public comment starting Friday to strengthen well construction standards and define a drilling firm's responsibility when natural gas migrates away from a well or rock formation and seeps into homes or water wells. The proposed rule will require that casings of Marcellus Shale wells be built with a specific grade of cement and require well operators to correct and provide notification when gas migration problems occur. "These new draft regulations...are designed to give Pennsylvanians peace of mind by bringing our state's requirements to par with other major gas producing states, or as in the case of the well casing requirements, to a level that is even more rigorous," said Mr. Rendell.
JANUARY 24   2010   New gas drilling companies targeting Wayne County By Steve McConnell (Staff Writer) Published: January 25, 2010   A new era of natural gas drilling is well under way across Pennsylvania, but Wayne County has remained as quiet as the bucolic hills and dairy farms that dot its landscape. That might soon change. Two companies aim to capitalize on more than 75,000 acres they recently leased to extract gas, joining others already showing an interest. The acreage would almost double if pending deals are approved, giving Hess Corp. and Newfield Exploration Co. the right to drill on more than a quarter of the land in the county. Officials with New York City-based Hess and Houston-based Newfield, which are operating in partnership, said they have committed to a stronger lease agreement designed to avoid the environmental maladies cropping up elsewhere in the region. The companies plan to drill nine exploratory wells this summer. Newfield company spokesman Keith Schmidt said they will not know how many production wells to drill until the results of the exploratory wells are evaluated. According to a company PowerPoint presentation, Newfield anticipates drilling Marcellus Shale production wells beginning in mid 2011 through 2012. Efforts to reach a Hess official were unsuccessful. This will be Hess and Newfield's first foray into Marcellus Shale, an extensive geologic and energy deposit that stretches throughout Appalachia and most of the state. Hess is one of the leading global energy companies. Representing property predominately in northern Wayne County, the Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance officially reached a landmark lease agreement with Hess and Newfield in October 2009, said Marian Schweighofer, alliance executive director. "I'm very proud of the strength of our lease," Ms. Schweighofer said. "We would not have been able to achieve raising the bar without (group) solidarity." Unlike previous leases elsewhere, the alliance leases require the company to test private water supplies before and after drilling, including the supplies of neighbors who decided against leasing their land for gas development. The law does not require gas companies to test private water supplies, an expensive proposition. The company is also responsible for reclaiming all land disturbed by its operations. The alliance might grow. According to court records, Chesapeake Appalachia LLC, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corp., the nation's third largest independent natural gas producer, recently sold hundreds of its leases in Wayne County to Hess, representing scattered properties mostly in the county's northern tier. Ms. Schweighofer said alliance board members will vote on whether to represent the owners of these properties. Hess officials have also recently signed with a second property owners' alliance that stretches along Wayne County's northern tier into Susquehanna County. Mr. Schmidt, of Newfield, said the company is committed to leasing 140,000 acres in northern Wayne and Susquehanna counties, as part of its development strategy that centers in an area generally north of Honesdale. But the development hinges on a regulatory agency that has yet to issue a Marcellus Shale drilling permit - the Delaware River Basin Commission. The multistate commission regulates water in the 13,539-square-mile Delaware River Basin, an area that includes almost all of Wayne County. Exploratory wells do not require commission permits, but production wells do, commission spokesman Clarke Rupert said. Mr. Rupert said the commission is developing draft regulations for natural gas drilling. The regulations will be subject to public comment, a hearing and a commission vote. Stone Energy Corp. has been waiting for that vote since the summer of 2008, when commission staff halted work at the company's drilling site in Clinton Twp. for lacking a permit. Citing stringent commission requirements, Chesapeake Appalachia also rescinded a permit application in October. The application sought permission to take water from the Delaware River in Buckingham Twp. Newfield and Hess officials have said that obtaining commission permits is one of a few challenges they face. The state Department of Environmental Protection, however, has issued several natural gas site permits in Wayne County, according to department records. And there is strong public opposition from some area residents that might also make the path to natural gas development much rockier than Hess and Newfield PowerPoint presentations make it seem. "People have a constitutional right to clean water," said Pat Carullo, co-founder of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, an area environmental group that reported a chemical spill to the state environmental regulator in October at a Chesapeake Appalachia exploratory well in Oregon Twp. The state issued a notice telling the company it violated state environmental laws. "They're injecting millions of gallons of toxic chemicals into the ground. Water is our bridge to the future," Mr. Carullo said. Alliance members point to their lease provisions and technologies used by Newfield, such as a technique to treat drilling wastewater on-site in a closed-loop containment system, as part of their effort to protect Wayne County. "I think they (Newfield) understand they are not in the middle of the desert in Wayne County," alliance member Richard Lenz of Milanville said, adding the company "is certainly paying serious attention to the requirements (the river basin commission) would like to see." Mr. Schmidt, of Newfield, said it is too early to determine what technologies will be used in Wayne County. The company has used an on-site wastewater treatment system at other U.S. operations, among other more environmentally-oriented systems. "Environmental responsibility is an important factor in operating a socially responsible company," Mr. Schmidt said. Contact the writer: smcconnell@timesshamrock.com Ads by Yahoo! Horizontal Shale Drilling Animation Animation shows Horizontal Shale Drilling, its history and processes. www.GeoArt.com Marcellus Shale Leasing Use Our Site To Make Gas Companies Compete For Your Lease. www.leaseauctionhouse.com Wayne County Birth Certificates $19.99 Eliminate expensive "middle-man" services, go direct to the source. Obtain your Wayne County, Michigan birth certificate for only $19.99. Order online, by phone, or by fax. www.easybirthcertificate.com
Test gas drilling planned in June By Peggy Cox Wayne Independent Sat Jan 23, 2010, 08:00 AM EST Manchester Twp. -  Two representatives of Newfield Exploration Company attended the Manchester Township Supervisors’ regular meeting on Monday evening, Jan. 18.  Jack Cochran, Operations Consultant and Donald Sleeth, Drilling Manager, approached the Supervisors to inform them that their company plans to begin test drilling for gas on two locations in Manchester Township and one in Damascus.  The two locations in Manchester are Minkler Mountain Road and a field owned by Dale Teeple on Hancock Highway. Newfield will take over the drilling from the Hess Company in early February. The first step in this process is to inspect the roads necessary for the movement of the heavy equipment to each site.  Agreements will need official paperwork to protect the roads.  Actual drilling will occur in early June. It was also discussed that the townships of Manchester and Damascus would work together in the processes required to approve roads and other paperwork.  From the group of attendees, Craig Olver added, “One step at a time: let’s work together.” Another issue briefly discussed at the meeting was the shortfall of the general fund which finances the purchase of cinders and anti-skid substances for the remaining months of the winter; a troubling concern of the Supervisors.  A motion was made to check on prices at various suppliers in the area. A reading of the correspondence revealed a letter from the PSATS (PA State Association of Township supervisors) News Bulletin. It related to the recent approval vote by the House on Bill 1876 that would require newspapers to give municipalities a 25 percent discount on legal ad rates. PSATS, however, opposes the HB1876 because it would do little to reduce the cost of legal ads. In particular, it doesn’t stop newspapers from significantly increasing their advertising rate to offset the impact of the discount.  More information can be had at www.psats.org. The short meeting which started sharply at 7 p.m. ended at 7:35 p.m.
Gas forum at the University of Scranton draws divergent views By Laura legere (Staff writer) Published: January 21, 2010 Representatives of the natural gas industry, environmental regulators and environmentalists found little common ground Wednesday evening as they discussed gas extraction from the Marcellus Shale at a forum at the University of Scranton. The crowded event, presented by the League of Women Voters of Lackawanna County, turned contentious at times, especially as industry representatives and an environmentalist disagreed over the track record of hydraulic fracturing - the technique of breaking apart shale to release gas using millions of gallons of water, chemicals and sand. Pat Carullo, a founder of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability, a Wayne County-based environmental group, said the technique is new as it is being practiced in the Marcellus Shale. Wendy Straatmann, a vice president for Exco Resources, a natural gas operator, said the technique has been used regularly since the 1950s and in shales in Texas for 20 years. The presenters addressed job creation, gas leasing on state forest lands, wastewater treatment and regulation of the industry. Matt Sheppard, the senior director of corporate development for Chesapeake Energy, a gas operator, brought three concentric rings of steel casing to demonstrate how well-protected groundwater is from drilling and fracturing fluids. Each one rocked the table as a colleague set them down. Mr. Carullo played audio of a man from Southwest Pennsylvania reading a letter about how his drinking water turned brown after Marcellus Shale operators drilled near his home. An independent water test showed levels of volatile organic compounds in the water, he said, and his family was told by the chemist who tested his water not to shower at home. Jennifer Means, the oil and gas program manager in the state Department of Environmental Protection's Williamsport office, said hydraulic fracturing is less likely than other gas extraction processes to contaminate water supplies. The Williamsport office, the newest oil and gas office in the state, has been able to increase its staff to 23 people, six more than expected, she said. Answers to the questions asked of the presenters will be posted on the local League of Women Voters' Web site at www.lwvlackawanna.org. Contact the writer: llegere@timesshamrock.com

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JANUARY 7   2010     Wayne Independent
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Region - In the year ahead, what is being described as up-to-the-minute, environmentally friendly technology will be used at gas drilling sites in Wayne and Susquehanna counties.
Drilling operations on lands leased by members of the Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance will use drills powered by compressed air for "down holes" and a "closed-loop system" to manage the so-called "fracking" water. These both are recently proven approaches to longtime drilling problems, according to a press release issued from the Alliance.
The compressed-air drills will eliminate the need to use any water as the operator bores down to the Marcellus Shale. The closed-loop system will do away with the problem of disposing the "brine" that flows back up from the well after the operator hydraulically fractures the shale to release the natural gas it holds.
As many know, fracking involves pumping millions of gallons of water and fine sand down a well bore to crack open rock thousands of feet beneath the surface and to keep the cracks open so the gas trapped in the rock flows out freely.
Drillers add substances to enhance the water's fracturing power: surfactants to reduce friction so the water penetrates the rock more easily, gels to help sweep the sand into the cracked rock, biocides to kill bacteria that could choke the cracks and chemicals to fight mineral deposits and scales.
A percentage of the fracking solution flows back to the surface and now also contains quantities of mineral salts. The flow-back brine would be a problem without the closed-loop system because our region lacks facilities to treat the brine to remove or neutralize any substances it might hold.
During the summer of 2008, members of the Alliance, which represents more than 1,300 landowner families and more than 70,000 acres, signed lease agreements with the Hess Corporation, which is providing the financial resources for gas exploration and production on Alliance lands.
Under a partnership agreement with Hess, the Newfield Exploration Company will drill the wells with rigs equipped by Atlas Copco, a leading developer of compressed-air-driven drilling machinery.
Newfield has contracted with Ecosphere Technologies to manage and recycle the water used at the drilling sites. At each site, Ecosphere will set up a mobile treatment system to remove bacteria and eliminate the causes of scale and corrosion in the well bore. This will allow Newfield to reduce surfactant use by 50 percent and eliminate biocides and anti-scalants entirely.
The water that flows back from a well will be filtered repeatedly, treated with ozone and high-power ultrasound and desalinated with reverse osmosis. The treated water will be stored in closed, mobile containers that can be taken to other wellsites.
Ecosphere says the recycled fracking water will meet or exceed the potability standards used by municipal water systems. Newfield and Ecosphere expect to reuse all the drilling fluids. Beyond that, after a final treatment, any leftover water can be released into the environment without danger.
Recycling frack water in the closed-loop system will also reduce withdrawals from creeks and rivers in the region. At places with multiple wells, the water will be onsite already, and transporting water from one site to the next will likely involve much less mileage than going to sources of fresh water.
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Region - In the year ahead, what is being described as up-to-the-minute, environmentally friendly technology will be used at gas drilling sites in Wayne and Susquehanna counties.
Drilling operations on lands leased by members of the Northern Wayne Property Owners Alliance will use drills powered by compressed air for "down holes" and a "closed-loop system" to manage the so-called "fracking" water. These both are recently proven approaches to longtime drilling problems, according to a press release issued from the Alliance.
The compressed-air drills will eliminate the need to use any water as the operator bores down to the Marcellus Shale. The closed-loop system will do away with the problem of disposing the "brine" that flows back up from the well after the operator hydraulically fractures the shale to release the natural gas it holds.
As many know, fracking involves pumping millions of gallons of water and fine sand down a well bore to crack open rock thousands of feet beneath the surface and to keep the cracks open so the gas trapped in the rock flows out freely.
Drillers add substances to enhance the water's fracturing power: surfactants to reduce friction so the water penetrates the rock more easily, gels to help sweep the sand into the cracked rock, biocides to kill bacteria that could choke the cracks and chemicals to fight mineral deposits and scales.
A percentage of the fracking solution flows back to the surface and now also contains quantities of mineral salts. The flow-back brine would be a problem without the closed-loop system because our region lacks facilities to treat the brine to remove or neutralize any substances it might hold.
During the summer of 2008, members of the Alliance, which represents more than 1,300 landowner families and more than 70,000 acres, signed lease agreements with the Hess Corporation, which is providing the financial resources for gas exploration and production on Alliance lands.
Under a partnership agreement with Hess, the Newfield Exploration Company will drill the wells with rigs equipped by Atlas Copco, a leading developer of compressed-air-driven drilling machinery.
Newfield has contracted with Ecosphere Technologies to manage and recycle the water used at the drilling sites. At each site, Ecosphere will set up a mobile treatment system to remove bacteria and eliminate the causes of scale and corrosion in the well bore. This will allow Newfield to reduce surfactant use by 50 percent and eliminate biocides and anti-scalants entirely.
The water that flows back from a well will be filtered repeatedly, treated with ozone and high-power ultrasound and desalinated with reverse osmosis. The treated water will be stored in closed, mobile containers that can be taken to other wellsites.
Ecosphere says the recycled fracking water will meet or exceed the potability standards used by municipal water systems. Newfield and Ecosphere expect to reuse all the drilling fluids. Beyond that, after a final treatment, any leftover water can be released into the environment without danger.
Recycling frack water in the closed-loop system will also reduce withdrawals from creeks and rivers in the region. At places with multiple wells, the water will be onsite already, and transporting water from one site to the next will likely involve much less mileage than going to sources of fresh water.

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By BEN CASSELMAN
CADDO PARISH, La. -- A massive natural-gas discovery here in northern Louisiana heralds a big shift in the nation's energy landscape. After an era of declining production, the U.S. is now swimming in natural gas.
Even conservative estimates suggest the Louisiana discovery -- known as the Haynesville Shale, for the dense rock formation that contains the gas -- could hold some 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. That's the equivalent of 33 billion barrels of oil, or 18 years' worth of current U.S. oil production. Some industry executives think the field could be several times that size.
"There's no dry hole here," says Joan Dunlap, vice president of Petrohawk Energy Corp., standing beside a drilling rig near a former Shreveport amusement park.

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Huge new fields also have been found in Texas, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. One industry-backed study estimates the U.S. has more than 2,200 trillion cubic feet of gas waiting to be pumped, enough to satisfy nearly 100 years of current U.S. natural-gas demand.
The discoveries have spurred energy experts and policy makers to start looking to natural gas in their pursuit of a wide range of goals: easing the impact of energy-price spikes, reducing dependence on foreign oil, lowering "greenhouse gas" emissions and speeding the transition to renewable fuels.
A climate-change bill being pushed by President Barack Obama could boost reliance on natural gas. The bill, which could emerge from the House Energy and Commerce Committee in May, is expected to set aggressive targets for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, the most prevalent man-made greenhouse gas.
Meeting such goals would require quickly moving away from coal-fired power plants, which account for substantial carbon emissions. President Obama wants the U.S. to rely more on renewable energy such as wind and solar power, but those technologies aren't ready to shoulder more than a fraction of the nation's energy burden. Advocates for natural gas argue that the fuel, which is cleaner than coal, would be a logical quick fix. In addition, billionaire energy investor T. Boone Pickens has been touting natural gas as an alternative to gasoline and diesel for cars and trucks.
"The availability of natural-gas generation enables us to be much more courageous in charting a transition to a low-carbon economy," says Jason Grumet, executive director of the National Commission on Energy Policy, who was a senior adviser to President Obama during the campaign.
Just three years ago, the conventional wisdom was that U.S. natural-gas production was facing permanent decline. U.S. policy makers were resigned to the idea that the country would have to rely more on foreign imports to supply the fuel that heats half of American homes, generates one-fifth of the nation's electricity, and is a key component in plastics, chemicals and fertilizer.

But new technologies and a drilling boom have helped production rise 11% in the past two years. Now there's a glut, which has driven prices down to a six-year low and prompted producers to temporarily cut back drilling and search for new demand.
The natural-gas discoveries come as oil has become harder to find and more expensive to produce. The U.S. is increasingly reliant on supplies imported from the Middle East and other politically unstable regions. In contrast, 98% of the natural gas consumed in the U.S. is produced in North America.
Coal remains plentiful in the U.S., but is likely to face new restrictions. To produce the same amount of energy, burning gas emits about half as much carbon dioxide as burning coal.
Natural gas has never played more than a supporting role in the nation's energy supply. Crude oil, refined into gasoline or diesel, fuels nearly all U.S. cars or trucks. Coal is the dominant fuel for generating electricity.
Natural-gas production in the U.S. peaked in the early 1970s, then fell for a decade due to weak prices and declining gas fields in Texas, Louisiana and elsewhere. Production bounced back in the 1990s with the discovery of new fields in New Mexico and Wyoming, but by 2002, output was falling again -- this time, most experts thought, for good. Believing the U.S. would soon need to import liquefied natural gas from overseas, companies such as ConocoPhillips, El Paso Corp. and Cheniere Energy Inc. spent billions on terminals, pipelines and storage facilities.
The supply fears drove up prices, which spurred innovation. Oil-and-gas companies had known for decades that there was gas trapped in shale, a nonporous rock common in much of the U.S. but considered too dense to produce much gas.
In the 1980s, Texas oilman George Mitchell began trying to produce gas from a formation near Fort Worth, Texas, known as the Barnett Shale. He pumped millions of gallons of water at high pressure down the well, cracking open the rock and allowing gas to flow to the surface.
Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corp. bought Mr. Mitchell's company in 2002. It combined his methods with a technique for drilling straight down to gas-bearing rock, then turning horizontally to stay within the formation. Devon's first horizontal wells produced about three times as much gas as traditional vertical wells.
The development of the Barnett Shale almost single-handedly reversed the decline in U.S. natural-gas production. Last year, the Barnett produced four billion cubic feet of gas a day, making it the largest field in the U.S. Other companies such as Newfield Exploration Co., Southwestern Energy Co. and Range Resources Corp. found shale fields across the U.S.
One of the most aggressive companies was Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy Corp., which got into the Barnett a couple of years behind cross-town rival Devon, and was an early entrant into the second big U.S. field, the Fayetteville Shale in Arkansas. In 2005, Chesapeake Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon sent teams of geologists across the country with a mission: Find the next Barnett. Less than two years later, they told him they had it, in Louisiana.

The Haynesville Shale is centered in northern Louisiana, one of the country's oldest oil- and gas-producing regions. Wildcatters had explored beneath the lush cow pastures and cotton fields as far back as the 1870s. Shreveport, the region's largest city, saw decades of booms and busts until the 1980s, when a glut of cheap oil from overseas all but killed the region's oil industry.
Oil companies knew about the Haynesville Shale, but it was considered a less viable prospect than the Barnett. The shale lies 10,000 or more feet below ground, where high pressure and 300-degree temperatures are enough to fry high-tech drilling equipment.
But in 2006, Chesapeake drilled an exploratory well and decided the results were promising enough to justify the higher cost of drilling in such harsh conditions. By late 2007, Mr. McClendon says, "we knew that we had a tiger by the tail."
In March 2008, as oil and gas prices were soaring, Chesapeake went public with its findings. The rush was on: Dozens of companies dispatched agents to the area to lease land for drilling, turning farmers and ranchers into millionaires overnight.
"There was excitement in the air," recalls Jeffrey Wellborn, a Shreveport resident who sits on the board of the local Sierra Club. "You thought everyone in the world had won the lottery."
The frenzy marked the peak of a nationwide drilling boom that was fueled by a combination of soaring energy prices and easy credit. It didn't last. Between July and October, oil and gas prices fell by more than 50%, and kept falling.
The weakening economy eroded demand for both oil and gas. Natural gas, unlike oil, suffered from a supply glut. U.S. gas production rose 7.2% last year, while oil production fell 1.9%. As a result, oil prices are up 12% since the start of 2009. Natural-gas prices have fallen 41% to their lowest since 2002.
Gas producers saw their profits evaporate and share prices slump. Liquefied-natural-gas imports plunged, leaving import terminals nearly idle. Worried about a glut, companies cut back sharply on drilling and formed a lobbying group to try to boost demand.
The growing supply created opportunities for policy makers and environmentalists, who saw natural gas as a possible solution to the nation's energy problems. Some groups suggested burning more gas and less coal for power generation. Others favor its use in vehicles.
Mr. Pickens has spent millions promoting an energy plan that aims to, among other things, convert thousands of big-rig trucks to run on natural gas. Mr. Pickens has large investments in natural gas and stands to benefit if his plan is adopted. In TV ads, Internet videos and speeches, he emphasizes a different goal: reducing U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

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