Next they will recalculate Bakken at 96% as well.
They will “discover” that 80% of the moon is made of cheese, but is unedible due to transfatty acids.
This article speaks of pure politics. Like the monkeying around with the Census data, the unemployment numbers, jobless benefits, Obamacare enrollments, etc., the administration has no integrity and will use, what should be impartial federal agencies, for their political ends. I see this as cover for the green lobby for when a Republican occupies the White House and begins pushing California to expand production in the Monterey fields. About 8 years ago, in about the only good thing he did, Senator Dorgan of North Dakota went toe-to-toe with the Geological Survey agency to get them to release a study by a geologist who died years before the release of the study. Of course the study has the Bakken at a recoverable oil potential many times higher than the Geological Survey. For some reason they resisted for years releasing the study. The CEO of Continental Oil kept claiming the Bakken had over 200 billion barrels of recoverable oil and he was busy buying up leases and drilling. In my mind the Geological Survey held on to the study to suppress development of the oil and only released it in response to Walter Hamm’s claims and efforts of Senator Dorgan.
They are doing a lot of drilling in Wyoming and are very happy.Another 4 miles down is some more.