Crisis in the Gulf is the fault of Environmentalists!

Topspin said:
Elton John thinks that's gay, but bike away Ohio slow. I bet it takes you a while. LOLzA
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It does and it keeps me fit and healthy and lookin hot and let me tell you...the ladies don't think that's gay at all! (but to be honest wearing all that lycra does look gay as hell!). But who cares? It's getting me a lot more trim then owning some gas guzzler ever would! :)
 
Mott the Hoople said:
It does and it keeps me fit and healthy and lookin hot and let me tell you...the ladies don't think that's gay at all! (but to be honest wearing all that lycra does look gay as hell!). But who cares? It's getting me a lot more trim then owning some gas guzzler ever would! :)

Clay Akin just called and said calling yourself hot is gay'r than fanny packs.

Do you wear the team Jersey too?
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Topspin said:
your a stubborn retard, 1/3 of the are is Offshore florida. That's been totally closed for 30 years = billions of barrells and trillions of dollars sent to your buddies in the middle east ya freaking terrorist supporter.
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party on cajun stoner.

Nice goal post moving, but the whole point of all these posts is that Dixie's entire premise is a completely laughable fraud. Almost as comedic as climate gate.


Treehuggers didn't force oil barons into the deep water. They went there because they wanted to. And oil drilling still routinely occurs all over the shallow water gulf. You might have a nice office window overlooking Poydras avenue, but I doubt you've ever choppered out to shallow water platforms that are all over the freaking gulf. :pke: Those were good times my cajun oil baron brother, I enjoyed drilling the shit out of the shallow water gulf fields.

If ya'll want to open up the eastern gulf, you'll have to take that up with Florida republicans, who apparently don't want to drill there anymore.
 
I've fished the plaform that will now be dead zones. The people in the gulf region are more pro oil the you democrats using a catastophy as a political football. Don't let's the facts get in your way. Why would I set a 3 billion dollar platform 75 miles offshore if I could do dozens in shallow Florida Cali or drill anwar.
 
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your a stubborn retard, 1/3 of the are is Offshore florida. That's been totally closed for 30 years = billions of barrells and trillions of dollars sent to your buddies in the middle east ya freaking terrorist supporter.
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Wow, I finally had time to check up on this. I've been out of the industry for a decade, and we always considered the eastern gulf to be a crap play. Nothing to get excited about. But, things change.

Well, I got a hold of the 2006 MMS reserves estimates for the eastern gulf. The eastern gulf is total crap. 3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil. That's tiny. The big boys aren't going to get excited about that. That's nothing compared to the deep water plays, the outershelf subsalt plays, and the central and western gulf. And technically recoverable is always more than the amount that's economically recoverable. So, the amount of oil that could feasibly be produced is likely far less than three billion barrels. There's a fair amount of natural gas, like 10 TCF estimated, but we weren't talking about natural gas. Natural gas doesn't form slicks or kill wildlife.

Oh, another thing. Almost all the estimated hydrocarbons in the eastern gulf are anticipated to be in deep water. Not up on the inner shelf in shallow water. There's not jack shit in the shallow water eastern gulf. Check it out....

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So, topper my oil patch guru, you owe me some props for being correct on every single assessment I made in this entire thread, and also for making Dixie cry like a girl.

1) Tree huggers never made oil barons go into deep water. Oil barons themselves wanted to go there.

2) In spite of Dixie's uninformed claims that we should just drill shallow water, there ain't any substantial or huge fields left there. It's all small or middling fields. Most of which are highly mature and simply subject to production drilling. With the odd outpost well here and there.

3) You owe me a brew or a joint, my cajun brother. You would totally own me on accounting. And you make me look like an idiot on stocks. Cheers mate. But don't ever try to play arm chair oil finder again. :clink:


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I can see why floridians don't want drilling in the shallow water off their coast.

500 million barrels of technically recoverable oil in shallow water? Depending on water saturation and recovery rates, that probably means less than 250 million barrels of oil that is recoverable feasibly and economically at a profit.

250 million barrels of oil is about 10 days supply for the united states.

Why the fuck would they risk their beaches, wildlife, and tourism industry for ten days worth of oil?
 
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some interesting bits of trivia from the past....from 2006.....the BP rig mentioned is probably the same one in trouble today....

The record-setting Chevron well, called Jack 2, which is 175 miles off the Louisiana coast, is more than five miles deep, including more than a mile of ocean depth. Modern 3-D seismic gear enabled the team to know where to drill to have a chance to make their $100 million-plus bet that oil would flow from such a deep formation. The drilling was the work of an advanced deep-sea rig—Transocean Inc.'s Cajun Express—one of 13 the company has launched since 1998 capable of drilling to depths of 35,000 feet, about double what the previous generation could do. Earlier drilling had established promising reserves in an area of the Gulf 300 miles long and 80 miles wide, but the Chevron project found a flow rate of more than 6,000 bbl. a day of light, sweet crude. The discovery confirmed the area's commercial viability, strengthening hopes that as much as 15 billion barrels of oil could be recovered in the vicinity.
Pioneering isn't cheap. Steel and skilled labor rates are going through the roof, as are rental rates for state-of-the-art offshore rigs. BP (BP), for example, will be paying $520,000 per day starting late next year for the same rig it is now getting for $190,000 per day. That's because these fancy rigs, which house 200 people and rise 415 feet into the air, are in short supply with drilling picking up. Still, energy experts believe that producing oil from ultra-deep wells can be profitable as long as oil, selling for $67 per barrel today, stays at or above $40 to $45.
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http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/sep2006/pi20060907_515138.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_investing

based on the last sentence I would say that if oil prices had remained below $45 there would have been no desire to drill in this area......would have been cheaper to drill in ANWAR......
 
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wow Cypress, your not totally dead to reason.
Billions of barrells we won't go after. LOL
Ask your buddy when the analysis was done, ask him if 3d siesmic has ever been done. NO!!
If they think several billion with the old technology it's exponentially more.
Sorry landman, your survey is way off on this one
Party on Cypress Garth!!!
 
Mr Obama announced new restrictions on offshore drilling, with the suspension of drilling on 33 oil wells in the Gulf, a moratorium on oil exploration off the coast of Alaska and Virginia and a moratorium on deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
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in other news, following reports of a fire at a gas station in Burbank, Obama shut down the sales of gasoline everywhere in the country....

http://www.newsroomamerica.com/story/16397.html
 
Dixie said:
Actually, I would like a nuclear-powered hummer with mounted AK-47s to deal with pinhead drivers....then we can ban any OIL that isn't edible. But this is not about what Dixie would like.... it's about reality... something you are apparently unaware of, Waterhead.
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AK-47s are not vehicle mountable.
 
T&A said:
That's just great. What about people in my beloved Pacific Northwest, who generally live quite a distance (such as a county or more) away from their place of work? Completely fucking retarded advice.
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Who the fuck said it was advice? How they get to work is their freaken problem, I say Christ I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman, all I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle.
 
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