Afghanistan claims 1.8 billion bbl oil field find

Oil and Gas Journal ^ | Aug 18, 2010 | Eric Watkins

[epithermal]

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 -- Afghanistan’s ministry of mining announced the discovery of an oil deposit in the northern region of the country, estimating reserves of 1.8 billion bbl.

A ministry spokesman said it is a “totally new oil deposit, which extends in a triangle between Balkh, Hairatan, and Shuburghan.”

[epithermal]

Drill Mohammed Drill

[2banana]

FYI. I was there in 2003. There were already many decrepit oil wells there. And a cottage industry of family refining facilities (imagine backyards with rust pipes and outdoor fires).

Not a new find. But maybe with the right investment they can do something with it.

[stuartcr]

Anything to keep our troops over there...easier to kill Americans if we’re there doing what their military can’t.

[dalebert]

not to worry ...Taleeban will destroy it.

[SpinnerWebb]

Yeah... let ‘em try to pull it up and make something useful out of it by themselves.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Now Øbama’s reversal on keeping troops in Afghanistan suddenly makes sense. He’s doing it to get the oil! (Wonder why Bush didn’t think of that when we went to Iraq?) /s

[MNJohnnie]

Going to be tough getting it out of there to end users. Abut the only politically stable direction is to China and that is some rugged terrain.

[marron]

Have they considered the environmental damage this oil field can cause?