[ckilmer]

“NoDak and Texas don’t have 80 million years of earthquakes to eliminate *horizontal* from the layers. In fact, every earthquake and volcano over the 80 million years was cracking those layers and letting the oil migrate away.”
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but the faulting in texas and colorado and north dakota just doesn’t compare with the faulting in California. The ground in california is way too knotty knarly for a drill.

That is, I’ve seen pictures of the ground they’re trying to drill and it looks knotty knarlier than oak stump burl.

[Lazamataz]

I’ve seen pictures of the ground they’re trying to drill and it looks knotty knarlier than oak stump burl.

That's the technical term for it, right, thackney?

[American Constitutionalist]

" but the faulting in texas and colorado and north dakota just doesn’t compare with the faulting in California. The ground in california is way too knotty knarly for a drill.
That is, I’ve seen pictures of the ground they’re trying to drill and it looks knotty knarlier than oak stump burl. "

This ?


Meet this :


And this :