The initial sticker shock for consumers may be a blessing in disguise for producers, however.  “Higher prices will give us the additional capital to continue drilling,” says producer Pete Brown of Cimarron Production Co. “The more money we have, the more we spend on drilling new wells. We have four or five areas where we’re looking at drilling vertically.”

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