Jan 29, 2017 - IDROOIL, According to norwep improvement will occur in shallow oil wells and conven- tional gas wells. Accordingly,World Oil forecasts a 26.8% jump in drilling, to 18,552 wells. This will make 2017 only the third year since the mid-1930s to see drilling fail to exceed 20,000 wells, but activity is definitely heading in the right direction

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