Posted on 10/01/2012 7:43:55 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe
A new film starring Matt Damon presents American oil and natural gas producers as money-grubbing villains purportedly poisoning rural American towns. It is therefore of particular note that it is financed in part by the royal family of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates....(Excerpt)
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Well ain’t that an interesting coinkindink?
Well ain’t that an interesting coinkindink?
Believe me, I know. I was working on a Master's Degree in Uranium Geochemistry when that little bomb dropped.
Between TMI and a couple of other market factors, I ended up with a pretty decent career in the Oil industry...but only because I could make the jump.
You can provide evidence that some aquifers had methane (and even oil) in them before a frac was conducted, demonstrate the absence of any uphole pressure changes, and show the only damage which has ever been done came from either blowouts, surface equipment failures, or spills (the truck turned over), with the rare exception of one or two unscrupulous operators (service companies, not oil companies), who tried to cut a corner and got shut down for their troubles.
There are places with bad water, but the oil companies didn't do that fracking. There are a few old refinery sites with problems, and those are being monitored and remediated as they come to the attention of TPTB--old railroad shops had similar problems, as did service stations, and the single largest current contributor to hydrocarbons in the water table is..... parking lot runoff.
But the average Bobblehead-American will just sit and nod as the pap runs through their brain...That's what they are trained to do, K-12 and beyond.
As long as the crockumentary is referred to by its proper genre (science fiction), we'll be safe from the little evil humanoid creatures climbing out of the oil wells and ravaging B-movie blondes at night...Otherwise the C.H.U.D. will be really peeved when they have to cash in their stuff to get enough gas to do a drive-by.
This film is a hopeful sign.
The petroleum engineers and others involved in the oil industry in the United Arab Emirates are apparently very concerned with the growing US competitors and are willing to go to extremes such as this film to try and protect their market share.
Precisely. But not just market share, also leverage and income stream. Can't get the Caliphate without it, don'tcha know.
Matt Damon must be very powerful. I think it is funny that he gets all the credit for this movie when John Krasinski from the Office also co-wrote the movie. I guess when you are an “A” list actor you get all the credit. It is amazing that he went from Good Will Hunting (which I did not like) single and partying to a husband and father of 3 making this movie. Oh well he clearly must be powerful to make such a splash on Free Republic.
It isn't Hollywood who is important, it is their attempts to influence Energy policy by attempting to motivate people who are as ignorant of the industry as Hollywood is.
Propaganda affects energy geopolitics almost as much as geology.
That is true. If Romney wins, it is moot anyway because he said he will build the Keystone pipeline himself if he has too. He coincidentally said that yesterday.
Some will continue to move by rail, as the trains go places the pipelines don't.
The tar sands oil is considerably heavier than the Bakken crude, and would be refined differently.
[[with the rare exception of one or two unscrupulous operators (service companies, not oil companies), ]]
There may be a few- but the oil industy is one of the msot heavily regulated and heavily watched business i nthe country- it would be very hard for an unscroupulous company to get away with it for very long before being fined out of business— There have been a few in the past- companies jumping in, making quick buck, then jumping out again and leaving behind a mess- however- as you state, these are beign cleaned up but top listen to the left, you woudl think that those few past unscrupulous companies were representative of the whole industry-
[[we’ll be safe from the little evil humanoid creatures climbing out of the oil wells and ravaging B-movie blondes at night]]
Darn- those bubble brained blonds are the ones who vote for obama because it’s ‘cool’ - they are the oens you see with crocodile tears i nthe audience looking liek they are goign to feignt when obama looks down his nose at them
Precisely. There are State, Federal, and local government entities involved,local landowners, hunters and fishermen, all who eye with suspicion any new company. It takes years to establish a solid working relationship with the people in an area, and even then, people are suspicious, largely an effect of all the bad press (some deserved, much not) from the mavens of the media.
A thousand 'attaboys' are erased by a single 'awsh*t'.
So the other part of the equation is that oil companies don't have any use for shoddy service companies or unscrupulous operators, either. Not only are such bad for the business image it has been an uphill battle to establish and maintain, but they end up costing money in the long run.
Thanks Smokin’ Joe.
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