From bust to bounty (Tens of billions of barrels of oil in ND and Mont)

Twincities.com ^ | 12/09/2007 | LESLIE BROOKS SUZUKAMO

[xcamel]

and the endangered prarie fart fly....

[Chode]

thank you... let the injunctions commence!!!

[yoe]

Can someone explain the process of heating the oil before they pump it out? Thanks

[saganite]

There has been drilling in Montana and ND for decades. It would be hard for the environmentalists to complain now, especially since even the Democrats in those states are onboard.

[Condor51]

The oil was two miles down and trapped in tightly packed horizontal layers of shale that were easy to miss with conventional drilling.

Is this the same 'shale oil' that Jimmah predicted would be our savior from the clutches OPEC??

I'd hate to see that the ijit was right - just a few decades off. If so the moonbats will go nuts, they'll want him on Mt. Rushmore.

[saganite]

They don’t heat the oil in this formation since it flows after the fracturing process. You’re probably thinking about the oil in Colorado which is even more tightly bound in the shale rock. They have been experimenting with heating that rock to unbind the oil.

[rabidralph]

...and women and minorities to be “hit hardest” by the drilling.

[Utah Binger]

But we must do it “for the children”.

[saganite]

Is this the same ‘shale oil’ that Jimmah predicted would be our savior from the clutches OPEC??

No. This oil is in shale rock but it can be extracted much easier than the shale oil Jimmuh was talking about. It’s still an expensive process but once they fracture the shale rock the oil flows as it would in a normal well. The shale oil Jimmuh was talking about either has to be mined and processed or heated in the ground over the course of years to extract the oil. Two entirely different animals here.

[saganite]

It won’t happen here. The drilling in this formation has been ongoing for about a decade now and there’s been little or no effort to stop it.

[The Great RJ]

In neighboring South Dakota, efforts by a Canadian pipeline company to build a crude oil pipeline from the Canadian oil shale regions across the Dakotas are similarly being stymied by environmental activists. Hyperion Oil of Texas also want to build the first new oil refinery in decades in southeastern South Dakota again guess who is opposing ...the tree huggers.

If these environmentalist wackos are so concerned about the earth why aren't they protesting in Venezuela, China or the Gulf States where environmental concerns in the oil industry are almost an afterthought?

[saganite]

ping

See any names you recognize in this article?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Up north of Edmonton in the tar sands area, steam is injected in some of these bodies to produce a flow of heavy oil. Other locations use CO2 combined with workover fluid, which is usually a heavy cut of petroleum or petro + clay.

[VOA]

There has been drilling in Montana and ND for decades. It would
be hard for the environmentalists to complain now, especially since
even the Democrats in those states are onboard.

In a sane world...you'd be right on target.

"Sixty Minutes" had a segment on the great energy reserves
under Montana and neighboring states.

A good part of the segment was about the coalition of burr-cut
ranchers and bath-once-a-year environmentalists already throwing
up roadblocks to energy projects.

At the very least, these enviro-nutburgers will slow down the
enterprise and make it more expensive.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I’ve picked up chatter about this SE SD refinery project a couple of times. It looks like its target would be Twin Cities and east, via Williams. Seems like Murphy, Ashland and FHR have this covered, especially in light of their expansions.

[svanni]

We must protest and resist this drilling, then ramp up the rhetoric of our dependence on foreign oil.