Exxon Is Drilling Some Extremely Long Shale Oil Wells
- Exxon recently completed Bakken wells that extend 3 miles
- Driller is deploying breakthroughs made in Russia’s Far East
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Exxon Mobil Corp. is drilling shale wells that stretch farther than the length of New York’s Central Park.
The world’s biggest oil explorer by market value recently finished four wells in North Dakota’s Bakken region that extend sideways for 3 miles (4.8 kilometers), Barclays Plc analyst Paul Cheng said in a research note after meeting Exxon executives, and it’s closing in on the 4-mile mark.