Posted on 07/14/2008 7:21:44 AM PDT by SMARTY
Let’s get it refined and into the gas tanks!
Private leases are the way to go. They have been drilling slant wells for decades. Set up on private land and drill a slant well under the Government land reserve.
This was discussed at length on FR about 10 April and for several weeks thereafter.
How smart do I have to be to know that sounds like a plan?
Thanks for the information.
I know nothing about the Rand Corp. but enjoyed the read. I didn’t understand it all but found it interesting.
The estimate is a USGS release and they are known for their conservatism. There are those that have estimated over 100 billion barrels exist in the total area which runs all the way up into Saskatchewan.
Isn’t T. Boone Pickens heavily invested in wind energy? He could stand to make mone just like Algore.
Isn’t T. Boone Pickens heavily invested in wind energy? He could stand to make money just like Algore.
This is a report on the Bakken written before the USGS estimate was published. Many at the time were hoping for a much larger number.
But it does talk about what is required to produce the oil from the field. And it is written for those with an interest, but not a geology or petroleum engineering degree.
Technology-Based Oil and Natural Gas Plays:
Shale Shock! Could There Be Billions in the Bakken?
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/ftproot/features/ngshock.pdf
Enbridge Pipeline N.D. LLC hoped to increase its pipeline carrying capacity in the region by at least 30,000 barrels per day by fall of 2007.
Was this accomplished?
Mark for later read
SOLUTION: Everyone who is not a member of Sierra Club, Earth First!, or Natue Conservancy, please neatly dig an ecologically friendly hole, fall in, and pull it in after you. Alternative solution: I'd be banned.
Sorry; accidentally posted on the wrong thread.
That's underway. Some enviromnmental group found some bird that they say should be protected under the ESA.
This would require, of course, a moratorium on development in their habitat.
And the Governor of Alaska is insisting we drill up there, but the dims won’t hear any of it. We have plenty of oil right here to last us 10-15 years, which is more than enough time to get VIABLE alternative energy sources into production.
I have heard numerous times that the oil in Bakken is of such a great quality that it needs little refining. It is amber colored right out of the ground.
Wow! Let’s get more refineries while we are at it!
There are plans to build the first new refinery in the US in over thirty years...in Union County, South Dakota.
Presuming, of course, that it can pass muster with the EPA and all the legal hurdles the enviro-wackos will erect in the path of progress.
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