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From Carpe Diem:

Reuters reports that the shale oil-rich area of Texas known as the Eagle Ford is quickly becoming the country's new hot spot for oil, and could rival production in the Bakken region of North Dakota within a few years:

"Over the past two years, some 30 companies have moved in to a shale prospect in South Texas called the Eagle Ford that could add 420,000 barrels per day (bpd) to U.S. crude oil production, nearly matching the output of OPEC member Ecuador.

The first phase of this latest boom has accelerated over the past year. Companies have hastened development of the estimated 3 billion barrels of shale oil across Eagle Ford by bringing in the horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing techniques that opened up North Dakota.

Eagle Ford output has risen from nil two years ago to...

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