Posted on 03/02/2011 11:20:52 AM PST by Army Air Corps
Ping.
Already, “concerns” arise from the usual suspects as companies take greater interest in oil and natural gas on the Texas plains.
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We haven't stopped drilling in Texas.
I think that the author meant the South Plains (especially the counties mentioned in his previous article on the subject). Sloppy writing/reporting.
Well, you know the answer to that one. BAAAD.
Or: It might possibly be OK, but we need a hundred years to do a thorough study of the environmental ramifications before giving the required permissions to proceed.
You need an interdepartmental panel for that kind of work. Possibly create a Blue Ribbon commission.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaha! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Maybe someone in the energy business knows why. What I've been hearing is that even though the moratorium on offshore drilling was lifted due to court order, the permit process was changed. What Hussein and the EPA did was make the process so convoluted and difficult that it effectively killed any new drilling.
Again, if someone in the energy business knows different please correct me.
*** a man holds a lighter up to his sink, and eventually the small ember bursts into flames. Environmentalists say it can happen when impurities in natural gas reach our drinking water.***
Bunkum. Many water wells have natural occuring methane in them. One woman was killed over in Oklahoma a few years ago when wasps plugged up the water well vent used to bleed off natural occuring methane. Her well house exploded when she was in there.
That would be Texas District 8A
Go to the interactive link above. There is an oil well being drilled in Lynn; 5 in Gaines, 3 in Dawson, 3 in Hockley. Those are just last week for a count.
I think the author just doesn’t know how to get the information.
This is onshore, not offshore.
I think that you are correct. According to some relatives in the oil and gas industry, this part of Texas is ripe for further development.
I think an e-mail to author is in order...
For the love of God. No other industry has come under more attack than the oil industry. Yet they always innovate their way around roadblocks. Imagine what they could do if they didn’t have to put up with leftist nonsense?
Imagine what all of us could do without leftist intervention.
Yes, but did the process for all new drilling suddenly become much more complicated?
They’re just referring to new wells in the local area sout of Lubbock where they are exploring for deep gas that could be recovered through fracturing the rock formations. Not a reference to drilling in general
Frack em. Drill!
Mohamed Solimon, who joined Texas Tech’s faculty last month as chairman of the Whitacre College of Engineering’s petroleum engineering department, said of the effect of a spreading unrest: “Even if the U.S. does not buy oil directly from that country, somebody else buys from the Middle East. If production is disrupted, there is less oil to everybody, so the price will go up everywhere.”
Since the onset of Egyptian demonstrations, unrest has been reported in Iran, the world’s fourth-largest oil-producing nation, along with Bahrain and Yemen.
Egypt’s geopolitical role in the region is a critical one because “it has always been the cultural heart of the Arab countries,” Solimon said. “Egypt is the cultural center, the trendsetter for other countries.”
Solimon, an Egyptian native with a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from Cairo University, noted the nation’s level of education gives a chance for democracy to flourish after a 59-year dictatorship that has seen three presidents — Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar Sadat, then Mubarak for the past 30 years.
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