Some of the oil reservoirs in the United States may be more resistant to the pressure from weak market conditions than some had expected, a federal report finds. File photo by Gary C. Caskey/UPI WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (UPI) — Some of the oil reserves in the United States may be more resilient to weak oil prices and show slow, but steady, production gains, a federal report finds. A review from the U.S. Energy Information Administration finds global tight oil, a lighter grade of crude oil found typically in shale deposits, is expected to double by 2040 to about 10.4 million barrels per day. Most of that, the report found, will come from the United States. “United States tight oil production, which reached 4.6 million bpd in March 2015, but fell to 4.1 million bpd in June 2016, has proven more resilient to low oil prices than many analysts had […]