It said the new technique - unveiled at the Unconventional Resources and Technology conference in Colorado, last month - could almost double the amount of recoverable oil from the industry's high end estimate of 24 billion barrels to 45 billion barrels.
told USA Today that the number is a "high end estimate," and comes from previously appropriated funds.
The $40 million high end estimate is about $2 million more than previously projected by ECONorthwest in July, while the $17 million low end estimate is about $1 million more than previously forecast by the first draft of the Oregon committee's fiscal impact statement.
Considering the sheer number of operations Isis has been able to carry out in comparison with other groups, the higher end estimates seem more plausible.
(According to high-end estimates, coal and oil shale could together yield some ten trillion barrels of unconventional crude).
Meanwhile, coal is on the hook for nearly 8m bird deaths a year, according to Climate Progress chart, while high-end estimates put deaths by wind or solar power above 350,000 a year.
Amazon officials gave McAdams Wright Ragen analysts the impression that high-end estimates on Kindle sales reported by TechCrunch and a Citigroup analyst are not reasonable.
Estimates of the total Manche Ch'ol population in the mid-17th century vary from 10,000 to 30,000, with prominent 20th-century Mayanist J. Eric S. Thompson preferring the lower figure as opposed to the high-end estimates by 17th-century chroniclers.
It is interesting to note that the high-end estimates reach approximately 0.2 mg/kg-day in both analyses.
It is useful to report both central and high-end estimates and to characterize groups likely to be affected by the higher exposures.
In the United States, high-end estimates consider approximately 56%% of more than 120 million annual visits to the hospital ED to be potentially avoidable, costing an estimated $38 billion in additional healthcare expenditures [ 1].
