Nov 28, 2018
Folks,
if you'd like to know more about what is going on in shale oil and gas production areas, there are, of course, many different places to read up on the topic ... however, two investigative reporting articles, more specific to the Permian Basin in nothwest Texas, where we want to begin our passive monitoring work, were recently published under the series headline BLOWOUT.
They can be found via this link: https://tinyurl.com/ycacbtmr
Don and Thomson like this.
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