Like my previous post said when they open up the East and West Coast I will quit yawning..... Last time I checked the Gulf of Mexico was in neither and the only thing is that his administration would catch holy hell from the liberals if it opened the East and West up. So, easy street says open the Gulf up.
So, they will remained closed and the oil companies will have to drill deep in the Gulf instead of shallow in the Atlantic after oil that is harder to refine and more expensive to produce from the ground.
Makes sense to a politician but not to me.
>after oil that is harder to refine<
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Do you have a crude oil essay for supporting that statement?
Refining is merely a separation of oil into its components and further “tweaking” of molecules here and there by the use of catalysts to arrive at the desired products. It’s not like putting a man on the moon.
I’d rather be on a drilling rig in the Gulf than one on the Atlantic coast.
Besides, extracted oil has a shorter distance to travel in the Gulf area where most of our refineries are located. And we have anchored floating oil processing facilities, the size of small towns, in the Gulf. It would be very rough for these facilities in an Atlantic ocean type of environment with its heavy seas.
The Atlantic Ocean has been a graveyard of dry holes. Totally different geology than the Gulf of Mexico. The main difference is a lack of basinal salt that helps form most of the structures in the Gulf. The only significant production to date is a field called Hibernia off of Newfoundland.