US crude set for record output despite price trend
Lower costs and more efficient drilling techniques more than offset collapse in oil markets
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CRUDE oil production from US wells is poised to approach a 42-year record next year as drillers ignore the recent decline in price pointing them in the opposite direction.
Energy producers in the United States plan to pump more crude in 2015 as declining equipment costs and enhanced drilling techniques more than offset the collapse in oil markets, said Troy Eckard, whose Eckard Global owns stakes in more than 260 North Dakota shale wells.
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