Kansas Oil Boomtowns?

Doomsday101

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Anthony, KAN. (CNNMoney) -- It doesn't feel like we're in Kansas anymore.

Oil rigs are springing up in farmers' fields. "No vacancy" signs hang in the windows of local motels, and a steady stream of trucks barrel through Main Streets. Along the state's southern border, the once-quiet farm towns are quickly transforming into boomtowns.

Hundreds of workers seeking high-paying jobs are flocking to places like Harper County, which had resorted to paying people to live there because of its declining population. Businesses are coming back from the dead and a housing shortage has caused rents to triple.

Oil companies began exploring Southern Kansas over a year ago, seeing enormous potential in the area now that new technologies like horizontal drilling and fracking have made it possible to tap into the oil-rich Mississippian Limestone formation.

SandRidge Energy, which holds the most horizontal drilling permits in Kansas, estimates there are about 15 billion barrels of recoverable oil in this part of Kansas. The company plans to drill 130 wells in the state by the end of the year -- up from 10 last year. And its wells are hitting oil 100% of the time.

http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/23/pf/america-boomtown-kansas/index.htm?source=cnn_bin
 

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The tax revenue on 15 billion barrels of oil will put Kansas in a strong position in the coming years. Lets hope no one gets in the way of this nice economic upturn. One phone call from the EPA could shut down the whole thing.
 

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JBond;4570859 said:
The tax revenue on 15 billion barrels of oil will put Kansas in a strong position in the coming years. Lets hope no one gets in the way of this nice economic upturn. One phone call from the EPA could shut down the whole thing.

True. People working with good paying jobs, towns coming to life and of course much needed oil.
 

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The landscape is a changing. A day trip in the country isn't the same as the old days. Everyone has their fingers crossed that nothing changes. Maybe my property taxes will go down.
 

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Land owners have a lot more bargaining room with the oil companies now with the carrying capacity for cattle in the area being really low. They used to need the oil companies, now they don't.
 
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