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How is oil actually drilled?

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan

You've probably seen in the cartoons or the movies when some fortunate soul strikes it rich and stumbles upon some liquid gold, texas tea, whatever you want to call it, and it spurts up into the air in a magnificent fountain. Well like a lot of things in the cartoons and the movies, it turns out that's a little far from reality. The reality of oil drilling is a little more comples than that but a whole lot more intersting.

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