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High prices may not be enough of an incentive for risky developments in conventional oil, let alone oil shale.

Anthony Andrews

Mr. Pickens is pleased to have some skin in the Barnett Shale game.

Boone Pickens

How much oil shale technology has developed will become much more apparent in the commercial applications.

Heather Feeney

This completion represents a significant milestone in our drilling efforts in the expansion area of the Barnett Shale formation. We are anxious to complete the well cleanup process and report the initial production rate of the well. We will continue our efforts to accelerate the completion schedule of our five other wells during the next several months.

Lawrence Finn

We're seeing evidence of Utah households responding to higher fuel costs by driving less, heating less, and being more efficient. And if oil prices stay high, we should also see more enduring efforts to explore alternatives, like tar sands and oil shale.

Gary Schlossberg

It's a snapshot of how we did growing apples. If they would taste our apples I know I'd do better. My grandfather always grew better-tasting fruit on this shale soil.

Dwight Mickey

The results of this second well will be extremely important to us. Log analysis of our initial well indicates we are in a highly fractured area of the New Albany Shale, which is what is required to produce natural gas in commercial quantities.

Kevan Casey

The Barnett Shale has really come at a time to meet that need.

Barry Davis

I am extremely skeptical that we're looking at a peak oil perspective. We have tar sands, oil shale, advances in deep drilling. There's a lot out there.

Edward Murphy