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U.S. Nominal Cost per Foot of Crude Oil Wells Drilled (Dollars per Foot)
U.S. Nominal Cost per Foot of Crude Oil Wells Drilled (Dollars per Foot)
Decade Year-0 Year-1 Year-2 Year-3 Year-4 Year-5 Year-6 Year-7 Year-8 Year-9
  1960's 13.22 13.11 13.41 13.20 13.12 13.94 15.04 16.61 18.63 19.28
  1970's 19.29 18.41 20.77 22.54 27.82 34.17 37.35 41.16 49.72 58.29
  1980's 66.36 80.40 86.34 72.65 66.32 66.78 68.35 58.35 62.28 64.92
  1990's 69.17 73.75 69.50 67.52 70.57 78.09 70.60 90.48 108.88 156.45
  2000's 125.96 153.72 194.55 221.13 298.45

- = No Data Reported;  -- = Not Applicable;  NA = Not Available;  W = Withheld to avoid disclosure of individual company data.
Release Date: 10/31/2008
Next Release Date: 11/28/2008

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