Certainly I'd support your comment that small companies have played a significant role in advancing hydraulic fracturing technology. Principally, maybe not so much on the operating side, I'd suggest, but certainly on the.... Where Canada has a real niche is in the downhole tools, which take a well bore that's 3,000 metres deep and extend it out laterally another 3,000 metres and put the tools in place so that you can put some 25 stimulations along the course of that well bore. It's amazing technology, each stimulation involving the placement of two railcars full of sand—
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