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Norway's Statoil buys US shale gas land
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Posted on 12/19/2012 7:20:38 PM PST by chessplayer

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To: MichaelCorleone

Then you must also be in favor of the US abandoning all of its overseas military bases to protect the sovereignty of foreign nations.


21 posted on 12/20/2012 10:25:12 AM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Then you must also be in favor of the US abandoning all of its overseas military bases to protect the sovereignty of foreign nations.


22 posted on 12/20/2012 10:25:17 AM PST by LifeComesFirst (http://rw-rebirth.blogspot.com/)
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To: Milton Miteybad

“But the report is incorrect in one or more material respects. Statoil didn’t buy the acreage in fee. What they got was an undivided interest in oil and gas leasehold covering this 70,000 acres. There is a difference.”

Okay , that’s a horse of a different color then. Thanks for taking the time to provide that information. You seem to have a good amount of experience in this area.

BTW, you’re not T Boone Pickens hiding behind the name ‘Milton’ are you? (only kidding)


23 posted on 12/20/2012 11:08:24 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (A return to Jesus and prayer in the schools is the only way.)
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To: MichaelCorleone
Nope. Not T. Boone Pickens. One look at the balance sheets for Milton Miteybad and T. Boone Pickens would remove all doubt or confusion. ;-)

My point was that the article was written by someone who has little or no understanding of the domestic oil and gas biz. By his/her poor choice of words, this author had some people concluding that there was something really sinister happening, when what Statoil had done was pretty much an everyday type of working interest deal.

Frankly, if it were up to Milton Miteybad, nobody who works in the capacity of a reporter or journalist would be permitted to write or opine about the oil and gas business, precisely because of this type of simple-minded approach that tends to mislead rather than inform.
24 posted on 12/20/2012 11:26:52 AM PST by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Milton Miteybad
Evidently the author, like very many FReepers, is unaware of how CO&G rights were separated from surface rights generations ago in the East.
25 posted on 12/21/2012 5:24:27 AM PST by Roccus (POLITICIAN...............a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
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