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As the world energy consumption climbs, there is growing pressure on governments and oil companies to continue to discover large oil and natural gas deposits. This is necessary to stem the tide of national oil dependency, and will continue to be an important political and economic until both factor of fossil fuels are phased out in favour of clean energy technologies or supplies of fossil fuels exhausted.

It ‘easy to understand how in this climate of growing need, the so-called discovery of 500 billion barrels of crude oil in the U.S. Bakken oil field arouses much interest. Continuous increase in the cost of crude oil from OPEC countries produced more expensive heating fuel and gasoline for vehicles, both of which have had a negative impact on the quality of life for citizens of developed countries that import oil to meet their needs energy.

But what is the real status of this sector of oil? There has been much promotion on the Internet about how this is the next great oil boom and wise that investors should seize this opportunity to get in on the ground level to make massive profits from the impending floods of oil will be flowing away from this great deposit. Not only are proponents of Bakken Oil Field suggested that oil can be produced from this site with lower cost as $ 16US per barrel, but that there is enough oil to meet all U.S. energy needs for up to 40 years. They also went up to say that this sector hail the return of cheap gasoline car in the United States.

To make sense of claims and data that surround the field Bakken oil a just need to understand two terms. Oil fields are described as either continuous or Discreet. A discrete oil field contains the vast majority of deposit in a position which is at least fairly easily exploited and brought to the surface. These are the deposits of oil that have led this wealth and influence to the OPEC countries.

The other type of oil deposit is described as continuous. While this sounds like a description positive, it actually means that oil has spread through many layers and a wide area. There are small pockets of a pool of oil, but these usually represent only a small fraction of the total quantity of oil in the surrounding rocks. Obviously this is a kind of far lower deposit of oil compared with Discreet. The status of a deposit of oil continues means that access to oil or is very limited or impossible.

The Bakken oil field is a field of oil continues. The United States Geological Survey has recently reported that in less than 1% of the upper end estimate of 503 billion barrels of oil into the site is easily accessible, which means a pool of deposits large enough to be commercially viable. For the rest, oil is not distributed throughout the area. For this reason, it is unlikely that the oil in this sector will be profitable to extract any time before, and the prospect of $ 16US barrels of oil is a wild claim.

This is a case of buyer beware. The hype surrounding this deposit is sure to attract people who are willing to deceive others in investing in empty promises. The promise of oil at low cost and enormous personal profits are two things that affect us in everyday life: the first because we are tired of forking the large sums of money at the pump gasoline, the other because we all want to make a healthy and realize Investment financial freedom.