美石油业为印第安人保留区带来财富

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VOA Chinese, Mar. 4, 2010.
http://www1.voanews.com/chinese/news/US/Oil-Production-Brings-Jobs-and-Revenues-to-the-Indian-Tribes-20100304-86423137.html

My comment:
(1) The VOA report is based in part on

James McPherson, North Dakota Indian reservation reaping oil benefits.
Associated Press, Feb. 25, 2010.
http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2010/02/25/North_Dakota_Indian_reservation_reaping_oil_benefits/

(a) 伯特霍尔德堡印第安人保留区 Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
"Historically the name of the reservation comes from a fort on the northern
bank of the Missouri River some twenty miles downstream from the mouth of
the Little Missouri River. The population of the reservation was 3776 out of
8400 registered tribe members. Unemployment was at 42%." Wikipedia.

(b) Quote from AP:

"'If they knew there was billions of barrels of oil here, they would never
have put us here,' said Spencer Wilkinson Jr. [a Native American]

"Oil companies are now drilling beneath the big lake, using an advanced
horizontal drill technique. * * * The reservation * * * lies atop a portion
the oil-rich Bakken shale formation, which the U.S. Geological Survey
estimates holds 4.3 billion barrels of oil that can be recovered using
current technology. The agency said the Bakken was the largest oil deposit
it has ever assessed.

(2) In fact, I read the story a while back, piqued by
(i) the new technology to extract oil (see the illustration, which depicted
a drill bit being maneuvered horizontally); and
(ii) Bakken Formation straddle US and Canada. (Doesn't Japan complain China
sucking oil underneath Japan's side of sea bed? How come Canada does not
whine?)

Ben Casselman, Oil Industry Booms -- in North Dakota; State Is Riding High
as Firms Develop Better Ways to Tap Huge Bakken Shale Deposit, Raising Hopes
for U.S. Production. Wall Street Journal, Feb. 26, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703795004575087623756596514.html

(3) "The Bakken Formation was formally described (named) by geologist J.W.
Nordquist in 1953. His samples came from the Amerada petroleum-H.O. Bakken
No. 1 well on the Nesson Anticline in Williams County, North Dakota. Henry
Bakken was surface owner where the well was drilled."
Technology-Based Oil and Natural Gas Plays: Shale Shock! Could There Be
Billions in the Bakken? Energy Information Administration, US Dept. of
Energy.
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/ftproot/features/ngshock.pdf


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