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by hooverd 797 days ago
Does that mean Google is the new Saudi Arabia?
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More like Iraq or Daniel Plainsview. Drilling diagonally to tap neighboring fields.
That sounds like a popular misunderstanding of the mutual accusations before the 1990 invasion between Iraq and Kuwait of overpumping from the oil field that crosses their border (which did not involve “slant drilling”).
Rock the Kasbah