1.   As the oil giants shifted production abroad, they left independents to drill five of every six new wells, producing half the crude in the continental United States.

2.   Bendix said Ozarka offered free water deliveries to Sipriano in addition to a new well.

3.   Blanchard has said he will put in clinics, bore new wells and build a lakeside village with shops and schools as employees are hired.

4.   BP is currently operating one oil and one gas project in Venezuela and expects to begin drilling a new well by the end of the year.

5.   A bank may require a new well before it makes a mortgage commitment.

6.   Crews have drilled dozens of new wells amid the mesquite and thorny scrub.

7.   Dennis Cocking, spokesman for the district, said that it will cost tens of millions of dollars to clean up the wells or drill new wells.

8.   Despite all the excitement here, not a drop of oil has yet flowed from the new Caspian wells.

9.   For example, ground-water districts would have to consider spring flow and related habitat when authorizing new wells.

10.   Griebling noted all operators in the state are more willing to drill new wells directionally, meaning from existing well pads, rather than disturb new areas.