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Trump Doubles Down On ‘Energy Dominance,’ Puts Up Millions Of Acres In Alaska For Drilling
Dailycaller.com ^ | 1:58 PM 12/06/2017 | Tim Pearce Energy Reporter

Posted on 12/06/2017 12:17:40 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

The Bureau of Land Management is auctioning off 10 million acres worth of leases Wednesday for oil and gas exploration in the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A), 150 miles west of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

Republicans in Congress are fighting to open ANWR to oil and gas exploration through the GOP tax bill. The Trump administration is moving ahead with oil drilling in Alaska through the NPR-A, 23 million acres free from the federal restrictions that cover ANWR.

The 10-million-acre lease offering will be the largest single lease sale in the history of the area. The previous record was set in 2004 when 5.8 million acres was offered for leases, the Alaska Journal of Commerce reports. The latest lease sale in 2016 brought in $18.8 million for 1.4 million acres.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; alaskaoil; anwr; drillbabydrill; energy; killallanimals; morewinning; npra; palinwasright; paveitall; selltochina; startclearcutting; trumpenergy; trumpoil
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Meanwhile, the msm will chat up Jerusalem, Roy Moore, and THE SLURRING.

The behind the scenes work is the best

41 posted on 12/06/2017 1:22:37 PM PST by onona
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To: DoughtyOne

“I didn’t realize we’re still importing 50%.”

US refineries buy oil from the source that is the least expensive delivered to their location. Oil is a commodity. It trades sells in price/ barrel. Much of that delivered price is a function of freight(shipping costs) to its location around the world.

It was explained to me once upon a time that some refineries are set up to process heavy crude oil. This is what countries like Venezuela export or the tar sands out of Alberta.

That is why the Keystone pipeline was so important to build. It lowered the cost/barrel to ship heavy crude to the refineries in LA & TX that are the most efficient in turning that oil into finished product. With Keystone completed the Canadian oil producer in Alberta can deliver their oil cheaper to TX than other sources in the world.

The Canadians are also building a pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific Ocean. Much of that oil will ship to refineries in California, OR & WA. These refineries currently get most of their oil from Alaska. However, these refineries are competing with what China, South Korea, Japan, etc. will pay for the same product.

JD Irving owns a refinery in St. Johns New Brunswick located on the Atlantic Ocean. It was built in that location so it could receive super tankers. However, when oil production from North Dakota increased due to fracking improvements they started shipping oil all the way to New Brunswick by train because it was cheaper than what could be delivered by boat.

So, Trump knows that if we increase supply overall, price will go down.


42 posted on 12/06/2017 1:29:54 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: DoughtyOne
“In the back of my head I still think of these resources as strategic assets. I don’t like the idea of selling them off cheap....”

Purchasing lease rights is cheap (relatively), you're right. The return of big $$$ is in royalties via oil & gas or mineral production covered by the leasing of mineral rights.

Not selling lease rights is zero. Repeat zero. It is every mineral rights owner's call whether to accept a lease bid or not. A bid consists of lump sum for the right to drill or dig as the case may be (small return) plus a royalty percentage from sale of the oil & gas, coal, mineral, etc. (big return). I own mineral rights. In one case, a dry hole for oil produced zero royalty thus just a modest payment for the lease, which was not renewed at the end of the lease term. In another case, there was first the small amount of the lease itself, oil was commercially produced and now I have a multi-decade of royalty payments coming in. Gotta love that fracing!

43 posted on 12/06/2017 1:30:53 PM PST by Hootowl99
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To: gogeo; DoughtyOne

Well so it is...even better. I’d still like to see it approach “Zero,” even though I doubt its possible.


44 posted on 12/06/2017 1:31:59 PM PST by henkster
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To: Rebelbase; SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; TigersEye; Oynx; Marine_Uncle; ...
Great photos!

Critters waiting for the Global Warming,...trying to get a bit warmer!

45 posted on 12/06/2017 1:36:28 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: henkster

What Trump did was to put the market into play.

The people in the business will decide to participate or nt and to what extent.

He effectively destroyed the envirowacko’s foolish arguments.


46 posted on 12/06/2017 1:45:30 PM PST by Thibodeaux (2018 is looking good)
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To: Thibodeaux
“What Trump did was to put the market into play.
The people in the business will decide to participate or n(o)t and to what extent.
He effectively destroyed the envirowacko’s foolish arguments.”

Brilliantly said...

47 posted on 12/06/2017 1:52:35 PM PST by Hootowl99
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To: DoughtyOne

Also, the oil from ND and the shale oil from TX is Light Sweet Crude. This increase in production for this type of oil from fracking hurt the country of Nigeria greatly. That is because their oil is light sweet crude.

However, much of the new production out of Texas did not have the infrastructure in place to load railcars. The big refineries in Texas are not really set up to unload by the truckload. Therefore, these new Texas producers had to sell their oil at a discount to allow for it to be shipped to some place by truck tanker and then reloaded onto a railcar tanker.

Similarly, oil from Alberta can be shipped currently to Vancouver, BC by pipeline. However, you can not load a Supertanker ship at the port where the pipeline ends. Therefore, it needs to be transloaded from a smaller tanker ship to a super tanker before it ships across the ocean. These all drive up the cost delivered to it final destination wherever that may be in China, Japan, Korea, or the Pacific US.


48 posted on 12/06/2017 2:03:16 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We owe a lot to Sarah Palin for informing us about the Alaska Oil data and ANWR. She got it out there for discussion. Trump obviously has had talks with her about it.

Thank You Sarah Palin!

49 posted on 12/06/2017 2:10:19 PM PST by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: TheStickman
So much WINNING!!!

Note that the pace of the WINNING is increasing

...soon be up to ludicrous speed.

50 posted on 12/06/2017 2:17:31 PM PST by spokeshave (The Fake Media tried to stop us from going to the White House, I am President and they are not. DJT)
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To: spokeshave

Remember the campaign rallies? He said we will have so much winning that we will ask “please Mr. President” can we slow down the winning? Or words to that effect. And recall his reply? No. Lmao. MAGA.


51 posted on 12/06/2017 2:33:04 PM PST by Kudsman ( Anyone to the Right of Stalin is a Far Right Wing candidate to the Far Left Wing Media.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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Go Trump!

MAGA!
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52 posted on 12/06/2017 2:36:30 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: DoughtyOne

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Let economics prevail over politics!
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53 posted on 12/06/2017 2:38:48 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Thanks for your comments. Much appreciated.


54 posted on 12/06/2017 2:40:24 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: Hootowl99

Thanks for the thoughts, and glad to hear that one lease paid off handsomely.

Cool.


55 posted on 12/06/2017 2:42:05 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: henkster

I still want profit incentives so we don’t have shortages, but I realize you want that also.


56 posted on 12/06/2017 2:43:41 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Thanks for the mention. Sounds reasoned.


57 posted on 12/06/2017 2:46:25 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I do fervently recall that, during the campaigning, this wonderful Guy stated that we may get tired of winning.

Mr. President, my President, my Ronald Reagan on steroids President.....Sir, no, I will not tire of these winning ways, so keep on keepin’ on.


58 posted on 12/06/2017 2:47:37 PM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: editor-surveyor

I agree.


59 posted on 12/06/2017 2:50:15 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell / Ryan: Why pass Cons legislation when we can pass Leftist legislation for Leftists?)
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To: nesnah

“Keep on Trumpin’”


60 posted on 12/06/2017 2:54:03 PM PST by HandyDandy ("Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?")
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