U.S. OKs Expanded Oil Drilling in Alaska

iWon News/AP ^ | January 21, 2005 | H. JOSEF HEBERT

[TexasCowboy]

Wow! There's a lot of area to explore and develop, and lots of tracts that haven't been leased.

Are those Native Surface ownership tracts leaseable?

[TexasCowboy]

Those are big rigs for work-overs.

Y'all doing a frac?

[thackney]

The Native's are VERY pro-oil & gas. Jobs and income mean a lot to them. The only complaint I heard from the native representatives at last summer's open hearing for the environmental impact study was the road didn't go close enough to the local village. They wanted it extend to make it easier for them to get to work.

[thackney]

Beyond my area of expertise.

I design for the stuff once it gets on of top the ground. My guess would be there is one rig and it has to do all the jobs bigger than what can be handled with a wire line. Alpine is not on the road system. Anything big can only be moved on the ice road, which only lasts a few months. That rig is left at the Alpine area for several years at a time.

I was up there in December and took the pictures while I was out taking pictures of other stuff.

[mewzilla]

And any enviroweenie who whines about it should be asked what he/she drives. I'll bet it won't be a compact.

[thackney]

Here is a picture of exploration in the Alpine Area. You can see the ice road and ice pad. This will all be removed while the ice is still thick. By summer all that will be there is tundra and a christmas tree.

[JimRed]

More crude oil leaks naturally into the ocean every year from undersea oil reserves that has been spilled into the ocean accidentally since the beginning of the 20th century.

So let's work on finding and pumping those leaks. Oh, wait; PETA would object. That would starve the petrolem consuming bacteria.