[EdReform]

So when a democrat tells you that it will be 10 years to get the oil to market from offshore drilling....tell them the Glenn Pool story.

You can count on it! Very useful info - thanks for posting it.

Here's some related info:

Drilling in the Offshore

"... But here’s what truly floored me: Shell decided Brutus’s location in the gulf would be profitable for drilling in April 1999. The company then built the massive oil platform, transported it to the right location in the gulf, anchored the floating leviathan onto the seafloor 3,000 feet below, drilled 17,000 feet below that, and began producing oil in July 2001. It took only two years to get Brutus online..."

This was posted by FReeper angkor in another thread (posted here - I added the highlighting):

"It's less than 100 miles from the prospective ANWR drill site to Prudhoe Bay and the Alaska Pipeline. That's the amount of new pipeline that would need to be built.

The Aleyska Pipeline took 3 years for 700 miles (including across the Brooks Range, the Alaska Range, the Chugach, and hundreds of lakes, rivers and deep tundra). An ANWR "connector" to Prudhoe Bay is more or less a straight shot across open tundra with none of the complexities of Aleyska. It could probably be built in less than one year, thus providing almost instant access to ANWR output via the Valdez oil terminal.

The AK Pipeline is currently running at about 1/2 capacity, and figures I've seen indicate it can easily move another 500K barrels per day (some say more than that).

[penelopesire]

Bookmarking your useful info!

Isn’t it amazing that what the democrats are really saying is ‘No You Can’t’....not ‘Yes We Can’!

The American people are being prevented from accessing their own Natural Resources by a true Axis of Evil....Democrats...Environmental Marxists and the Main Stream Media!

Let’s take our country back!!

[EdReform]

OBAMA MOCKS 'DRILL HERE...DRILL NOW' (Obama mocks 70% of Americans)

“That’s what he talked about yesterday, ‘I want to drill here. I want to drill now,’” Obama said, quoting McCain talking in Sturgis, S.D. “I don’t know where he was standing. I think he was in a building somewhere. This plan will not lower prices today; it won’t lower prices during the next administration.”

[singfreedom]

Absolutely. I know all kinds of oil experts that say 2 to 5 years to drill, complete, and have it in the pipeline. And that is for anywhere—offshore, ANWAR, off the east coast, anywhere. Alaska, the Gulf, and the west coast, already have a lot of the infrastructure necessary to move the oil. The east coast would take the 5 years since they have no infrastructure.