Economics
Head West for Best Look at U.S. Oil Drillers’ Pain
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Little is going right for California’s oil industry.
Turns out the state’s shale formation holds less promise than producers expected. Aging conventional wells are drying up. And a rebound in output that cost drillers as much as $3 billion annually to create has been overshadowed by shale oil gushing from wells in North Dakota and Texas.