I would. Extremely surprised.
On another note they dug 22,000 feet deep?
If they did, they went completely below the Bakken or Three Forks formation. About twice as deep.
Posted on 04/17/2014 8:44:54 AM PDT by Hostage
This report is exclusive to freerepublic.com and is intended only to pass observed on-the-ground information to readers. It is not carried on any major news outlet and it won't be in our opinion. You can file this report as conspiracy if needed but it is more suitably filed as accumulation of unexplained Fed action for future analysis. I do ask relevant and pertinent questions throughout the question that Freepers can help answer.
One question for which I have affirmative answers is can the federal government move in on oil and gas drillers and takeover at any time declaring any oil discovery to be part of the strategic reserve?
The report comes from one of my business partners doing business on behalf of our company in the North Dakota Bakken region where he was astounded to find on Tuesday of this week outside Stanley ND that a six-pad well, the largest in the entire Bakken region, had hit an 'OCEAN' of oil causing all six wellheads to gush out of control.
The six well heads were quickly taken care of by the drilling company but on the same day it is reported that federal officials swooped in and shut the wells down declaring the oil discovery as under federal control and made part of the strategic petroleum reserve. I am told the drilling companies and investors behind them will be compensated but we have no details. We are told no one will hear about this.
If all the above is true, then I lean towards believing the blackout on news is true because my experience in doing business there in the recent past has led to hearing many accounts of national security protections regarding location of oil including details of logistics, pipeline and rail facilities. In other words information is not widely disseminated for either reasons of national security or commercial competitiveness.
There are business 'bullies' in the region who think nothing of cutting out, double crossing and tripping up business entrepreneurs in the region, of misrepresenting their intentions. of breaching contracts and agreements, of circumventing and breaching non-disclosure by handing private information to third parties that act against other businesses. It's a classic 'wildkat' environment with different parties heating up to cheat and fight each other.
I have not heard of the federal government acting as a 'bully' in the region but there is a report of federal gunships on the road witnessed by my partner on I-94 between Dickinson and Bismarck. I would not be surprised to learn of our federal government backing 'selected drilling businesses' in the region. That would sound like conspiracy nonsense to me had the federal gunships' not been witnessed driving on the road by my partner. More on this below.
The report is that drillers had drilled 22,000 feet deep (yes, many miles beneath the surface) and hit an 'OCEAN' of oil as it was described. The proven reserves of oil in the Bakken shale formation are already at least ten times that of Saudi Arabia. If the report of hitting an 'ocean of oil' is true, then this would make the Bakken bigger than anything the world has ever known.
Next it is reported that on the same day of the strike that federal agents swooped in to shut the wells down and take over the drilling site. How could they have known so quickly? Is there a requirement to report to the county, state or federal governments immediately upon striking oil? I admit I could find out about this on my own but I am involved in so many business deals spanning the globe that I haven't had time to get answers.
I have met drillers on-site in the Bakken but I don't call them with pestering questions because they are usually a terse no-nonsense bunch. And asking them for information can get some nasty glances as if I were asking a pro poker player what cards he holds in his hand. Not only that but some will lie through their teeth to steer an outsider in the wrong direction. So it's serious business out there with a bit of pirate spirit and honor of thieves in the mix.
I could call state offices in North Dakota to get answers but I can just as easily search for online rules and procedures but that's time consuming for me. So I thought to throw these questions out to Freepers who may know answers from their experience and in any event can add this report to their pile of anecdotes regarding federal militarization of agencies inside the borders of the USA.
After leaving Stanley my business partner headed for I-94 towards Bismarck and called me to report he was behind a very long convoy of federal vehicles with multiple 'gunship' vehicles leading and tailing the convoy.
Trust me on one thing. you can see a long distance ahead on roads in North Dakota. Do a Google street view on I-94 going towards Bismarck and you can confirm that the view ahead is for miles and the roads are very straight, there are almost no trees and the land is flat.
I asked him what was in the middle of the convoy, could he see it? He said there were 'cars with officials' bracketed by multiple gunships on each end. His voice tome was one of shock and awe. I asked how he could see this on a straight road and he said when the road would be in a long curve he could see the whole convoy. I asked him how long the convoy was and he said AT LEAST a half mile and most likely longer.
I asked him could he identify the agency. He said it looked like it was the US Army but it wasn't because there was no Army star on any of the vehicles and the troops manning the gunships wore different uniforms.
I will get more of a brief from him when he returns to Seattle this weekend.
Now here's my analysis. Some may think it conspiracy, I call it points of speculation surrounding facts. Connect the dots as you will.
1. Enormously large oil strikes can throw oil markets into turmoil causing severe price volatility. Although oil futures are controlled by JP Morgan and others through a maze of derivatives. The influence of large oil strikes can penetrate the price control mechanisms and damage all the interests of derivatives behind them.
2. I believe the price of oil is to a great extent 'rigged'. Take that for what it's worth.
3. Oil as a commodity is 'controlled' to a certain price level to balance inflation with economics. If the price is too high, inflation can be difficult to manage. If the price is too low, shale drillers using hydraulic fracturing technology 'fracking' can go out of business.
4. Environmentalists especially militant ones, the same ones who control Obama, want to shut down as much drilling as they can. They have already pretty much locked drillers 'frackers' out of California. I believe environmental extremists would like to see a good portion of us die actually. Wiping out human traces as a solution to problems underlies I believe a good portion of the foundation of their philosophy.
5. A manager of one of the USA's largest oil logistics companies remarked last week direct to my ears that environmentalists told Obama they will 'crucify' him if he issues a presidential permit for Keystone to go forward. Another top logistics manager of a company with offices in Wyoming, Montana and Colorado made the BIZARRE statement to me in a hostile tone over the phone that NORTH DAKOTA CRUDE STAYS IN NORTH DAKOTA! In my experience I am getting close to federal influence when people start acting belligerently without good reason.
6. In 2008 Obama said what is needed is a civilian army as large as our military armed forces. We are witnessing the militarization of a plethora of federal agencies. We are witnessing the federal purchase of enormous quantities of ammunition including by such GSEs as the US Postal Service which seems bizarre.
7. We are witnessing a never-ending attempt to disarm Americans outside of federal and state control.
8. We are witnessing budding range wars and skimishes between federal officials and citizens.
9. And now there is a witness to the shutdown of perhaps the largest oil strike ever on record together with a witness a day later of a long federal militarized convoy on an interstate just outside an area where the enormously large oil strike was reported.
BTTT!
Yes, it sounds A LOT like that nonsense.
I was working Alaskan North Slope projects when I posted the following on that topic.
I don’t see anyone including me reporting this as an SPR operation. What is reported is that federal officials have taken over production wells ***for the purpose*** of the SPR. And this report may be misreported. Whether it is fake or not is an open question but certainly it is not precise.
What is not fake is the large federal convoy witnessed in the area a day after the report of the well takeover.
Don’t you agree that BLM or some federal agency could coordinate to transport this oil to SPR? Why do you narrow your view to just the SPR? Don’t you know that federal agencies coordinate efforts? I know they do in other matters. In this matter, there is not enough information to know for sure.
http://www.pagunblog.com/2014/04/11/the-blm-debates-taking-a-stand/
Down in the comments a poster suggests water is a target, too. No doubt here. Obama and friends are shutting US down, lock, stock and barrel.
I was looking at the article on my phone and did not read the whole thing. Thanks for the response.
You know thackney, you just conferred wisdom and knowledge on a speculation of a speculation.
Color me skeptical about your judgement and contribution.
You appear to have ‘some’ good knowledge about the oil and gas industry. So do many others.
You appear to have some experience inside the federal government. So do I.
But I think you are positioned down low in the bushes unable to see beyond the forests around you.
But what wisdom and knowledge do you confer on the witness of a large militarized federal convoy with gunships leanding and tailing and helicopters circling overhead? Or is that also nonsense? Are you calling me and my business partner liars?
Conferring wisdom and knowledge on a speculator of speculation, what a crock!
I would. Extremely surprised.
On another note they dug 22,000 feet deep?
If they did, they went completely below the Bakken or Three Forks formation. About twice as deep.
And all six wells, drilled on the same pad, hit the same day. Not like all the other multiple well pads that one rig drills each one, one at a time.
It was done by John Ross Ewing
Yes, please do.
BLM with mineral rights?
Nope, not even close.
If you post a thread and ask for comments, don’t attack those who come in and make well-informed observations if you want this thread to stay up.
We have two well pads in ND (Souris). They were drilled ten years ago. We are still waiting.
The quarter section next to ours had oil 25 years ago, but dried up after about seven years.
You brought it up, including claims they do news blackouts. I am only responding to your posts.
Your posting is looking like you want to make fools of other Freepers.
I do not pretend this is about me.
On a sphere the size of the earth if you drill down 22,000 feet, how much surface area are you directly below? In other words the exact center of the earth would be directly below all surface area.
Drilled a couple miles beneath the sedimentary basin containing the Bakken and Three Fork producing zones?
I doubt it.
Ok fair enough. But I would like to reserve the right to challenge comments designed to discredit the thread. But in this case I will refrain.
Beautiful place... I keep thinking it's either the wilds of Alaska, Canada, or some deserted isle in the Pacific if things keep getting worse here in the lower 56... ;)
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