[Devilinbaggypants]

Drilling a well and having it in production can take as little as 60 days...if the production infrastructure is in place...we do it in West Texas all the time. Deep ocean wells take approximately 120 days to drill however the production infrastructure is not currently in place so it will take approximately 3 to 5 years to bring that oil to market. In the mean time they would continue to drill wells so they will be ready to produce as soon as the infrastructure is complete. ANWAR oil can be brought to market in less than a year because the Alaskan pipeline is available now and very little new infrastructure is need to produce the oil.

[Kaslin]

8 to 14 years is a lot longer then 3 to 5 years