TOD disagrees with you about the deepwater thing.jsl32July 14 2010, 01:47:52 UTC
From what I understand, there's not much if any oil in shallower areas (clinton did allow some drilling in alaska-- nothing was found).
obama is definitely anti-business that isn't banking or unions, etc, but it's propaganda that there's all this shallow-area oil that the ebbil eco-fools won't let 'us' have.
[here from gwendally's flist]
TOD=the oil drum. they generally have their stuff together on these things without lapsing into partisan biases, so i believe that there's not terribly much to be had in the shallower areas.
Re: TOD disagrees with you about the deepwater thing.ccr1138July 14 2010, 05:39:23 UTC
I've never heard of The Oil Drum. Is that the best you can do?
The Department of Energy says there's anywhere from 5.7 to 16 billion barrels of oil in ANWR. Deepwater Horizon was supposed to produce about 5000 barrels a day, or roughly 1.8 million barrels in a year. If I divide the conservative estimate (95% probability) of 5.7 billion barrels by the DH production of 5000/day, I see that ANWR is estimated to contain more than 3000 times the amount of oil. Of course, it's not a fair comparison, since it's one well versus an entire oilfield. How about we compare all ultra-deepwater reserves with ANWR's reserves? That would be 5.7 billion vs. 1.5 billion, or 2.6 times more oil in one Alaska oilfield than in all the proven reserves in the gulf at 5,000 feet or more. And we are drilling in ultra deepwater why?
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obama is definitely anti-business that isn't banking or unions, etc, but it's propaganda that there's all this shallow-area oil that the ebbil eco-fools won't let 'us' have.
[here from gwendally's flist]
TOD=the oil drum. they generally have their stuff together on these things without lapsing into partisan biases, so i believe that there's not terribly much to be had in the shallower areas.
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The Department of Energy says there's anywhere from 5.7 to 16 billion barrels of oil in ANWR. Deepwater Horizon was supposed to produce about 5000 barrels a day, or roughly 1.8 million barrels in a year. If I divide the conservative estimate (95% probability) of 5.7 billion barrels by the DH production of 5000/day, I see that ANWR is estimated to contain more than 3000 times the amount of oil. Of course, it's not a fair comparison, since it's one well versus an entire oilfield. How about we compare all ultra-deepwater reserves with ANWR's reserves? That would be 5.7 billion vs. 1.5 billion, or 2.6 times more oil in one Alaska oilfield than in all the proven reserves in the gulf at 5,000 feet or more. And we are drilling in ultra deepwater why?
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And what happens if everyone just boycots the ban? Is that completely anarchistic?
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As for boycotting the ban, I doubt anyone would want the bad publicity. Oil companies work really hard to counteract their "evil" image.
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