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A. Horizontal drilling is very environmentally friendly. The typical new Bakken well uses a 5 acre surface location that is reclaimed to about two acres for production to develop 1,280 acres of minerals. Vertical well technology of 20 years ago would utilize 4-20 times the number of wells and surface acres.
