I have heard, but don’t know how reliably, that there is twice as much oil in the US and mid-Canada than the entire mideast.
A few months ago I was in line at the supermarket and there was a fellow in a wheelchair behind me. We talked a bit, and from what he said, I knew he knew what he was talking about and was telling the truth.
He had spent 25 years as a hydraulic engineer - in Prudhoe Bay.
Told me they would come in with samples that looked so pure they were like Wesson oil. And said that he’d be surprised if even now, we’ve taken two percent of what’s there. The place is literally bubbling with oil - and not just ANWR. We’re talking thousands and thousands of square miles of formations, probably hundreds of BILLIONS of barrels.
The shale oil in Colorado which we have no real way to recover it yet is about 2 trillion barrels. Yep, trillion.
"Told me they would come in with samples that looked so pure they were like Wesson oil. And said that he’d be surprised if even now, we’ve taken two percent of what’s there. The place is literally bubbling with oil - and not just ANWR. We’re talking thousands and thousands of square miles of formations, probably hundreds of BILLIONS of barrels."
I would tend to agree with that too. Every area of Alaska that is suspected to hold oil needs a good seismic survey performed now. They very reason that the USA wanted Alaska was for the natural resources and we have tunred it into a damn no-zone national park.