Posted on 08/25/2004 8:59:39 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON — Placing a heavy emphasis on energy production in the American West, the Bush administration has moved aggressively to open up broad areas of largely unspoiled federal land to oil and gas exploration.
The administration has pressed for approval of new drilling permits across the Rocky Mountains and lifted protections on hundreds of thousands of acres with gas and oil reserves in Utah and Colorado. In the process, it has targeted a number of places prized for their scenery, abundant wildlife and clean water, natural assets increasingly valuable to the region's changing economy.
Soon after taking office in 2001, the Bush White House set up a little-known task force that acts as a complaint desk for industry, passing energy company concerns directly to federal land management employees in the field. Although the creation of White House task forces is commonplace, experts on the executive branch say it is unusual to have one primarily serving the interests of a single industry.
In addition, the Bureau of Land Management has been pushed to issue drilling permits at a record pace for three of the last four years, an increase of 70% since the Clinton administration.
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Hidalgo County?
Kerry is for clean coal.
The cleanest known coal reserves in the USA are in S Utah, where Clintoon lied right up the last minute to the entire Utah members of Congress about making millions of acres of land National Monuments. He signed the paperwork on the ARIZONA side of the Grand Canyon on Labor Day weekend, I don't remember the year. Leases had been let, and jobs were about to be granted to thousands of miners. It all stopped. Sen Orrin Hatch was absolutely livid. Was connected to Indonesia and donations to Clintoons campaign. Indonesia was the next cleanest coal reserves known in the world at the time. Maybe still.
Bush needs to reopen these lands for coal mining. NOW.
Drilling in the west and even in ANWR won't solve our long term energy problems. Conservation and new technology can.
Extremely hard to conserve when thousands of illigal intruders are coming to this country daily and using energy. They are getting hot water showers for the first time in some of their lives.
Wow! You're close!
A few feet inside Starr.
We don't even need new technology. Build more nukes. If the US got 3/4 of our electricity from nuke power, like France does, or even 1/3 (like Japan), we would not need as much (or perhaps not even any) foreign oil
The first one I worked on was a duplex without air hoists or pneumatic wrenches.
There's a lot of difference between changing 6" liners in a duplex and changing them on a triplex!
Carnak the Magnificent thinks you're drilling the No. 34 well.
That was a travesty of justice. It should be corrected. On another note, Indonesia became a net importer of oil a couple months ago, which ought to be a sign and portent of things to come.
He's wrong.
Damn. Drillinginfo.com let me down.
I can put you in touch with some good looking salesladies who make gathering info a lot more fun.
I'll bet you can!
That's a beaut!!!
As a proud American and Native Texan, that picture makes me even prouder to be an American!!!
The Monterey Fm. also happens to be the major source rock in the area too. When you hit a sweet spot, a Monterey well can been particularly prolific. One offshore well, on Platform Hondo, has produced a little over 30 million barrels of oil in the 20 or so years it has been in production - which I believe to be a domestic record. The only problem is that most Monterey-sourced oil are heavy and sour.
Those look like triples stacked in the rig.
LOL!
Heck, we're happy to get twenty millidarcies of perm!
It takes a big frac to make it come.
Can you give me a nickle tour of one of those rigs if I make it down there ?
Close, but where's the winterizing? That rig would freeze up in June up here!
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