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Horizontal drilling has been employed commercially for more than 15 years. The excerpt posted above implies that there is something risky or experimental about the method. The opposite is true. Horizontal and slant drilling allows companies to disturb a much smaller surface area to access oil reserves. Multiple wells can be drilled from a common area.

interesting comment...since its not risky I guess that is why George W. and the rest of that admin gave a permit for the drilling site after letting BP write their own environmental review and consultation documents relating to the Endangered Species Act. The documents did not include any plan as to how they would navigate an issue such as what we have in the gulf. There only statements in the documents were that at its worse a "spill" would be 20 thousand barrels a day. Oh and by the way the documents are supposed to contain such information as their plans on oil clean up.

also "[SIZE=2]This is in reference to the "spill" and also BP's permit to continue in Alaska with a project called "Liberty" which is a new "state of the art" drilling method called horizontial drilling." that was me not a part of the excerpt...[/SIZE]