Originally Posted by RockyBoy

Google Bakken Formation. According to Continental Resources it is the largest oil discovery in the last 40 years and they estimate they can extract 24 Billion Barrells of oil from the formation. They have to use fracturing "frac" technology to get the oil. They basically pump a mixture of hot water and sand into a well that has been drilled and pressurize it. That fractures the rock formation and allows the oil to be pumped out. It can take up to 12 million gallons of water on some wells. They have to haul all of that in one semi-load at a time. Takes ALOT of trucks and they need it all done within a two week period. The oil companies are paying outrageous amounts of money to truck owners to go up there because nobody wants to be there.