3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation

USGS ^ | April 10, 2008

[Lady Jag]

[television is just wrong]

somebody needs to give these greenies a swift kick, or we are all going to be paying 10.00 a gal for gas.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I hope to live long enough to see the wackos who prevent us from recovering oil there, and elsewhere, hanging from lamp posts. Enough of their shenanigans already! Got rope?

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

I'm almost 65 and though I have no plans on leaving all you nice Freepers any time soon, I'm giving 10 - 1 odds that I won't see this reserve (and more than Anwar or deposits off the East Coast)developed to full capacity, in my lifetime.

The green-weenie-Socialist-Enviro-Nuts, who are hell-bent on seeing us revert back to the stone age, will keep this tied up in courts for the next 20 - 30 years.

[richardtavor]

Well, get ready, the Woodford shale is also an oil producer, and it is finally starting to be drilled for....I am about to drill my first horizontal Woodford oil well-but there have been already 7 commercial Woodford Oil wells. The significance is that the Woodford was deposited virtually all over Oklahoma. So, get ready.

[RightWhale]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1573450.stm

Fusion power is “within reach”, according to atomic scientists in the UK.

“I believe that if our experiments are successful, and they are promising, we could be designing the forerunner of the first commercial fusion reactor,” said UKAEA’s Dr Alan Sykes, as he showed BBC News Online around his laboratory at Culham, near Oxford.

Called Mast (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak), the new equipment could be the design breakthrough needed to make fusion power a reality - at long last.

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This is the way to go.

Or was, Oct 2001, BBC

Haven’t heard much lately

[trumandogz]

As far as I know, there has been no government impediment to drilling in the Bakken like has occurred with ANWR.

BTW-Even if we drill in the Bakken, ANWR and Florida we will still be dependent on foreign oil and we will soon be paying $5.00 a gallon for gas and at some point even $10.00.

[Bommer]

The 500 Billion they are talking about is embedded in the pores of the rock itself. It is recoverable, but the rock has to be super heated to in order get the oil out. Very expensive, but at over $100 a barrel, financially feasible. This area stretches for North Dakota to Saskatchewan and Manitoba BTW and includes the oil sand fields.

[kellynla]

BTTT