Posted on 02/10/2011 11:22:08 AM PST by Weird Tolkienish Figure
A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude.
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Are you thinking of Smokin Joe?
Roll the calendar ahead 2 years from today and we have a true conservative in the white house and the dismantling of the EPA, Interior and the Engery Departments has started.
The question is what will be the price of a barrel of oil.
The gulf and Alaska start to flow.....
(From my lips to God’s ears)
YEP. We are paying their saleries to tell us what we can and cannot have. Seems strange to me. I paid salaries to employees to do MY bidding, not theirs. The epa is our employees, not our dictators, as they are want to believe.
I’ve printed this before. I read an article some years ago whereby an EPA employee stated they (epa) wanted the same fearsome authority of fear as did the IRS over American citizens. Now, I do believe the epa has a lot of our elected in dc to do their bidding, by making laws that do no good for the American economy.
Much of how well it works depends on the type of rock formations you are trying to do it in. I know it works in some places here, but I don't know if that is true there or not. Seems that if it was then they would be all over it.
Maybe. He’s a Jewish poster, if that helps.
Thanks for the compliment.......
Smokin Joe is in the Williston Basin with me.......
I’m envious!
Just got word that Smokin’Joe is out drilling in the Williston Basin right now.
The Panzers ran on diesel fuel, not gasoline.
Diesel is easier to produce from coal and can be distilled from crude oil. Gasoline manufacture is much more complex.
Because we are fracking two miles of wellbore drilled laterally through a 4-12 foot thick pay zone instead of 4-12 feet of pay zone in a vertical well.
The fracs are multistage as well, isolating sections of that horizontal wellbore for better effectiveness.
What makes this feasible is a combination of drill bit, survey tool (MWD), and mud motor development, coupled with the recognition of several viable formations which are capable of being produced with this technology.
It all works together, and although we were doing this in the 80s, the technology was no where near as efficient, and many of the different target strata had not been realized to have the potential they do.
Tomorrow’s headline:
Obama Administration Issues Moratorium on New Drilling Method
Now stop. That would create jobs and we can’t have that.
They were very intense, and long jobs.
Which means most of them were catered with great BBQ and always great pecan pie for desert!
One of the bosses on a frac crew would look over the job and usually say “This looks like a 2 can job” and then stuff a big gob of chew in his cheek and start giving orders. lol
you are correct. sorry about that, but i trust my point taken
The FedGov has 245,000,000 acres of land now, they don't need more, and I think this country can ill afford to remove it from consideration for energy production.
wholeheartedly agree.
Libs require fossil fuels to go up in price by whatever means necessary via scarcity or taxes, so their agenda of “green” is more palatable.
Meanwhile, every other country in the world is pursuing the exploitation of its own resources, including Cuba right off our coast.
True insanity at its finest. They'll put hundreds of acres of desert in shade to put up solar arrays, but wouldn't let a motorcycle race dash through it in former years because it might disturb unoccupied tortise dens...
Similar disconnects apply all over their part of the moonbat spectrum.
The bottom line, though, is that no technology which does not work will be palatable to the American public at any price.
At this latitude, the electric vehicle is a deathtrap six months out of the year, and questionable transport the rest for anything but the most local of trips. From major town to major town it won't cut it--not enough range. There is no bus, and rail is only on east-west routes on some days, and nonexistent otherwise. (In short there is no public transportation.)
We don't have many options, and in the dead of winter, even diesel had better be No. 1 grade, or it will gel up.
The war against energy is a war against life, and not just here.
Environutters will discover the previously unknown North American Spotted Ferret Bat and then BLM will put the whole state off limits and Algore will come and build a 8000 square foot mansion on Devils Lake.
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