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A recent U.S. Geological Survey assessment of previously undiscovered gas and oil in Texas' Permian Basin has found that there are enough resources there to fuel the entire nation for months.

Going against conventional wisdom, explorers at a Norwegian energy company drilled horizontally to find oil in an abandoned natural gas field. A model of a giant rig called the DeepSea Stavanger that ...