Posted on 04/12/2011 5:04:29 AM PDT by thackney
Transocean Ltd. today announced that the ultra-deepwater drillship Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 has set what the company believes is a world record for the deepest water depth by an offshore drilling rig of 10,194 feet of water while working for Reliance Industries offshore India. The rig, which is owned by a joint venture with Quantum Pacific Group, surpassed Transocean's prior record of 10,011 feet of water, set in 2003 by the Discoverer Deep Seas working for Chevron in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The new record comes approximately one year after the dynamically positioned Dhirubhai Deepwater KG2 was placed into service in India under a five-year drilling contract. The vessel is equipped to work in water depths of up to 12,000 feet and outfitted to construct wells up to 35,000 feet deep.
If we didn’t have the NWO running our country we wouldn’t have to drill through 2 miles of water to get oil.
Wow. We will hear of all sorts of world records in the future and thanks to Obami, none of the records will be for America or American interests.
The libs won’t be happy until we are pushed so far backwards that we don’t even hear breaking world news until it’s a week stale.
Good for them.
They were a big customer of ours at the freight forwarder.
More evidence that crude oil doesn’t come from rotting carcuses and buried vegetation. It’s a natural product of the earth’s interior and we can never run out of it.
There was a theory advanced by a Professor Gold (I think that was his name) suggesting a continuous seep of hydrocarbons...
Haven’t heard much about it lately, tho.
Since it is only found in sedimentary rock that formed from surface deposits, how do you jump to that conclusion?
Even if oil is currently continually being formed, the fact will be totally irrelevant if the rate of formation is much less than the rate of consumption.
If crude oil formed anywhere near our current global consumption rate and did so on our geological time scale, our problem would not be finding oil but how to keep from drowning in it.
Multiply +80 million barrels of oil per day times tens or hundreds of millions of years and the volume is impressive.
“surface deposits”......10,000 feet under the sea. Luv it.
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