Tens Of Billions Of Additional Barrels Of Oil Remain To Be Tapped Miles Below Gulf Of Mexico

Science Daily ^ | 3-31-2003 | Cornell University

[cibco]

That picture isn't "gross".

I agree...

[nanny]

Yes, maybe Americans would have jobs (you know they did this before the Mexicans came) and our schools could spend their money teaching our children and our hospitals might be able to stay open to treat Americans.

In the war of 1846 - our government was on our side - in this situation - they are not.

[AFreeBird]

First we suck dry the middle east as payback for all the trouble they've caused over the centuries, leaving them to eat dist after squandering the wealth they've gained, then we turn to more local, less volitial fields.

[Gritty]

Fougettaboudit!

It will be a cold day in h*ll when the enviros let this be drilled. They would rather it leak into the ocean to be used for fish food!

The prefer everybody to either drive (non-existent) electric cars or live in cities and depend on public transportation. That way, they get to use the remainder of the abandoned country as their own nature preserve and use the rest of us as slaves to labor on their favorite fantasies.

[tpaine]

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[struwwelpeter]

Better? ;-)

[Dog Gone]

That picture isn't "gross".

It could get you beat up in some places in South Asia, though. ;-)

[AM2000]

lol.

[Ditter]

You have probably never been in the Gulf of Mexico in a boat. There are LOTS of oil wells already drilled out there. I can't see the enviro's stopping the drilling of more. The best fishing is *always* around the oil structures.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Petronski]

These untapped oil and gas reserves can be found by matching hydrocarbon chemical signatures with geologic models for stratigraphic layers under the sea floor, says Lawrence M. Cathles, a professor of chemical geology at Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y.

I worry for this man's safety: he's advocating new drilling, and he's doing it in the City of Evil!

[blam]

"The best fishing is *always* around the oil structures."

Don't eat them though, they're loaded with mercury.

[bribriagain]

"Oil doesn't migrate through "streams" or collect in "ponds." Maybe they dumbed this down for the general public, but it's grossly misleading and casts doubts on the seriousness of this study."

Enlighten us, please.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

As these sources mature, the hydrocarbons migrate upward toward the surface through what can be thought of as a myriad of small streams and ponds, much like a natural water system

It is a thought process, not actual! LOL!

[governsleastgovernsbest]

The hydrocarbons are digested by bacteria, which then become food for the gulf's marine life.

This can't be! Everyone knows that hydrocarbons are poisonous, spreading death, destruction and irremediable environmental harm in their wake!

That is why we cannot permit even .002% of ANWR to be opened to drilling, even if it would significantly reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

[Servant of the Nine]

Oil doesn't migrate through "streams" or collect in "ponds." Maybe they dumbed this down for the general public, but it's grossly misleading and casts doubts on the seriousness of this study.

Well, Cornel is not exactly an epicenter of Petroleum Geological Research.
This would be a lot more believable from one of the Universities in Oil Country where the serious work is done.

So9

[swarthyguy]

One reason cows should be armed.

http://www.cowswithguns.com/

"Four legs good, Two legs bad."

George Orwell, Animal Farm

Another fearsome product of hindufundy saffronistas. The Gaya Project.

[aruanan]

What makes this area offshore of Louisiana important is the presence of two types of hydrocarbon deep below the gulf floor: the deeper, early-maturing Jurassic and the later-maturing Tertiary. Each has a distinctive chemistry. As these sources mature, the hydrocarbons migrate upward toward the surface through what can be thought of as a myriad of small streams and ponds, much like a natural water system.

Question-begging, assuming the "source" lies in the Tertiary or Jurassic rather than underlying both. A better explanation is that each type of hydrocarbon has a distinctive chemistry because of the strata through which it migrates. The continuous flow is better explained by a constant upwelling and cracking of primordial methane as it flows upward through rock of varying density and pore structure than by an in-situ formation of petroleum from buried organic precursors.

[Dog Gone]

Petroleum geology is an entire major at a university, but the hardest thing for most of the public to understand is that oil seeps through microscopic pores in what appears to be solid rock.

There are no underground ponds of oil, much less streams. It's oil contained in solid rock under pressure unknown at the surface of the earth.

Some rocks are more "hollow" than others, but it's still solid rock.

Ancient earthquake faults provide leaks from one rock strata to another, but it's still nothing that can be accurately described as a stream.

[jwh_Denver]

Fougettaboudit!

FE! I'd drill into solid granite if it pissed off the enviro wackos.