oil is measured in barrels, but millions(in gals) always sounds more impressive...
Posted on 06/15/2010 2:37:24 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
oil is measured in barrels, but millions(in gals) always sounds more impressive...
It could happen then or who knows ?
The Bureaucrats are involved now. Everything they do, makes the problem worse.
I read a month ago that they drilled this well into a field deemed larger than the fields in Saudi Arabia.
“The Bureaucrats are involved now...”
GWB let the banksters pick our pockets so cleanly in September ‘08, that the Enviroweenies are lining up to “get theirs” now...
If the cement plug in the wellbore was bad, then there was initially a small channel in the plug that oil and gas could leak through. No doubt, the channel through the plug has increased in size over time, as the oil carrying sand and other solids with it erodes the plug.
There are 42 gallons in a stock tank barrel, the standard measure of crude oil.
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