Posted on 05/16/2008 10:13:02 PM PDT by combat_boots
A reported 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of oil estimate....
North Dakota. Montana.
Go to just about the end of the slide show to see the stats.
Press Release page: http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911
(Excerpt) Read more at energy.usgs.gov ...
Here's a search: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=the+Bakken+Formation&FORM=MSNH
Is that total oil or recoverable oil?
OK - let’s ban any drilling there.
signed,
N Pelosi
H Reid
Probably some spotted owls or caribou around there somewhere.
..spotted caribou for sure, they get that way lying around in oil.
Precisely. You can bet Greenies are already out looking for threatened Bandy-Legged Buck-Toothed Titmouses or Brown Anal Lice so they can put them on Nixon's Endangered Species List next to the Polar Bears. And Bush's fearless Interior Secretary has probably already drawn up the paperwork.
To quote W.B. Yeats:
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
The Left loves to use these lines to describe our Side. I think the exact reverse is true.
not to mention the billions of barrels we would have if we could make coal oil. Didn’t we give up on it because it would have been 40 bucks a barrel at the time?
If you search this site you will find many more articles about the Bakken. We’ve been driling horizontal wells in the Middle Bakken up here for about 7 years now, the enviros are too late to stop this one.
From what I’ve gotten from people that work that area, it is not only just the “recoverable”(with current tech) portion but it is a laughably “low ball” estimate at that. It is really such a huge volume that it could lead to a drop in oil prices sufficient to make it uneconomical to go after it. Better to let the reality of it come out in bits to keep exploration and development on a fast track there.
It doesn’t matter. We might as well have evidence of oil in the Andromeda galaxy, for all the good it’s going to do it.
The anti-American, hate-America Democrats and the Amazingly Stupid Gutless Wonder Republicans will never let us drill it anyway.
Based on what I've read about estimates for this area, that number seems very low. I've read numerous reports that estimate recoverable reserves for the Bakken formation range from 200 bbl to 500 bbl.
Wonder how much a gallon it has to go up to before the rest of America tars and feathers these lunatics?
BTTT
Wonder how much a gallon it has to go up to before the rest of America tars and feathers these lunatics?
Don’t waste good tar and feathers. Just take away the keys to their private jets, confiscate their limos, and make ‘em drink budweiser.
Not true. A company I invest in is drilling in the Bakken right now.
“Is that total oil or recoverable oil?”
“an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil”
I added the search term Bakken up at the top of this entry. Have fun, folks!
You might try reading a few serious books to find out. If reading's a challenge, the movie came out in 1998. Search with the keywords "Aldous Huxley."
It was a well intentioned question: why be nasty?
We use 22 million barrels a day. That gives us about a year and a half worth of oil.....sheeeeeeesh...
Do you believe suggesting I'm a lineal descendant of Karl Marx -- from a screen name, no less! -- is well-intentioned? I read a bit more into it.
No, I was just asking.
Once I was house hunting and the realtor had the same last name, Milikin, as the inventor of the diode. I asked if they were related and sure enough, he was her father-in-law.
I’m a descendant of one Captain Charles Goodwin, a cavalry officer in then General Washington’s army, and the Captain witnessed the British surrender at Yorktown. Turns out there are literally thousands of descendents.
And I know there is at least one hanged-horse thief swinging in the family tree along with all the respectable people.
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