Too many wells release the natural pressure in the field, like fizz from a soda can, and it becomes too expensive to pump the oil out.
"There's obviously a natural pressure for the analyst to be more co-operative with the business community than perhaps their professional responsibilities would indicate, " Mr Baker says.
The superintendent of the Pecos Valley Artesian Conservancy District, Dennis Karnes, can still remember sitting on a well-pipe as a boy and being launched into the duckpond as soon as the farmer opened the valve and natural pressure spewed several thousand gallons a minute of ground water against his legs.
Quantitative Easing has as one of its goals, the creation of a small amount of inflationary pressure to overcome to natural deflationary pressure when the economy is depressed.
The human population exploded and without natural selection pressure, fecundity in the types economic activity flourished.
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In September 2008, a high-pressure natural gas pipeline operated by BP ruptured, sending two segments of pipe flying 900 feet across the tundra.
The disappearance of the lake is being caused by climate change, population pressure and natural variations in climate, the FAO said.
The Tories have called this measure vindictive, but their natural allies in the countryside pressure groups are happy with it.
It is clear the natural world is under unprecedented pressure.
In other words, when you think you are going straight and pointing your skis downhill and parallel, you are actually turning them both towards each other thanks to the edge pressure of your natural stance.
Providing modern contraception also has the potential to stem population growth and relieve human pressure on the environment and natural resources.
In a moment, we'll hear about an entire country that is under pressure to pay more for natural gas, a lot more.
About 25, 000 wells a year are being fracked, a process in which water, chemicals and sand are injected at high pressure underground to release trapped natural gas.
Although, with plentiful oil and natural gas in the US, the pressure on energy conservation has eased a bit it is clear that there is a finite amount of accessible energy available and conservation of energy is important to preserve these assets for future generations.
The drilling technique, which uses sand, water and chemicals under high pressure to extract oil and natural gas from rock formations, has helped Eagle Ford oil production grow by 184% last year compared with 2011, according to the Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the state's oil and gas exploration and production.
But perhaps frackers, who inject high-pressure fluid into rocks deep underground to release natural gas, are beginning to improve themselves.
Synthetic diamonds, made by compressing diamond shards under high temperature and pressure, are less brittle and wear more evenly than natural diamonds.
The assertion is that hydraulic fracturing fluids, which are injected at high speed and high pressure to create cracks in the shale rock that traps natural gas, will seep into underground water aquifers.
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But the pipeline that took Turkmen energy supplies to Russia ruptured in April 2009, after Moscow failed to tell Ashgabat that it had significantly lowered its import level of natural gas, causing the pipeline to explode due to the increased pressure.
Of late, the U.S. oil field services sector has been impacted by weak natural gas pricing, which has taken its toll on companies that offer pressure pumping services.
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Branding breastfeeding as natural and economical without fully acknowledging the difficulties of balancing family and career creates unnecessary pressure and guilt.
Adaptable back-row Jon Thomas is also a probable but the resurgence of Owen, a natural number eight who impressed as a stand-in lock, could put selection pressure on the Osprey.
The city is also host to the world's largest gas-stimulation project in development: 240 million cubic feet of Tengiz natural gas is injected daily into the reservoirs to loosen up oil and boost well pressure.
Fracking uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to crack rock formations and release oil and natural gas deep underground.
Fracking involves the injection of water containing a surfactant and various other chemicals under high pressure into a source rock e.g. shale, causing the latter to fracture and release natural gas (principally methane).
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