1

Okay, liberals. Are you for ANWR or are you just determined to block energy production?

Rhetorical question, I assume.

2
Murkowski in 2012!

3 I believe this is the "and" part of an "and/or" question.

4 I DRINK YOUR MILSHAKE!

5 They've pointlessly locked up shale.

They've blocked drilling off the coasts (while China does it)

It's all about blocking energy production.

6 I WEEP FOR GAIA!!1!

7 Porcupine caribou? Are you shitting me? Our priorities are so fucked up.

8 I question the timing.

9 heh.

10 With a little more research, couldn't we use "directional drilling" to suck the oil out from under Siberia, or get Colombia to suck the oil out from under Venezuela?

11 oh, timing questions. That there 8/31/10 drawdown - timed to coincide with the midterms, I'd say.

12
When Obama says we're going to make "tough decisions" for our future, he means he's determined to force the U.S. off of fossil fuels.

Be it with billions of $$ in tax-payer funded research, subsidies for solar & wind companies, gas taxes, or crippling the oil & coal industries, Obama is making the U.S. go Green.

Not in the next 20 years. Not in the next 10 years.Within the next 3 years.

13 It doesn't matter: ANWR has nothing at all to do with the state of caribou--that's just a handy bludgeon with which to beat the sane amongst us (while also giving TPTB a (plastic, of course) bone to throw to the enviro lobby).

14 The US has been too competitive ... it is only fair to let others catch up, while we revert to the stone age ...
     
where did the white man go wrong?'

'When white man find land, Indians running it,  no taxes, no debt, plenty buffalo, plenty beaver, clean water. Women did all the work, Medicine man free. Indian man spend all day hunting and fishing; all night having sex.'

Then the chief leaned back and smiled. 'Only white man dumb enough to think he could improve system like that

15 Yeah, the timing of the drawdown is so damned obvious its not even open for questioning really.

16 This has to be done to get more crude so that the alaska pipeline flows.Without proper amounts of crude the pipeline becomes a multibillion dollar relic.

17 The question posed in this article is great - are Libs for the environment or just for a local energy shutdown? We'll soon see. Also, any geologists or oil people on this site who can explain why we never thought of this idea before?

18 >>Obama is making the U.S. go Green.

And he/we will find out that switching to alternative fuels makes as much sense as switching the health industry to alternative medicine.

19

"Directional drilling would allow energy companies to reach oil deposits up to eight miles away"

But now that it has been: Okay, liberals. Are you for ANWR or are you just determined to block energy production?

We aren't just looking to block energy production.  Don't be silly.  We're just looking to expand the perimeter of ANWR out by 8 miles.

20 We all know they'll find someway to block this.  Here's the first response: "This doesn't do anything to solve our need to stop using fossil fuels!!"  Second: "Those lands are pristine.  Also, the lands next to those lands are pristine.  Everytime you build a drilling platform on a godforsaken patch of frozen mud, an endangered arctic frozen mud shitworm dies!" etc. etc.

21 "Without proper amounts of crude the pipeline becomes a multibillion dollar relic." Well, I do have a track record as of this week... http://tinyurl.com/cxx98v

22
OT -- Dean Grose, is he a Republican or Democrat?

Grose is the soon to be ex-mayor of Los Alamitos, CA, who made a racist remark about watermelons, or something.

23 Hahaha. You think this will ever get out of committee?  No way the dems will let that happen.  Obama himself said that he thinks high oil prices are a good thing - it's all about decreasing the use of energy, of any kind.

24

#18

yes we will see, but will the MSM allow anyone else to see?

25 OT  What the hell is wrong with Illinois? breitbart.com has the story of 3 being found in their sewer filters.

26 to all those with the "we'll soon see if the liberals just want to shut down energy production" question -- haven't you been paying attention? Of course that's what they want to do. I will also add -- so what? You think you'll be able to beat them about the head and torso with their hypocrisy? no one has held them to account yet, I'm kind of doubting that killing this bill will do them any harm.

27 @26 sorry...they found placentas!

28 At the big O speech the other night, the Dem's were all so happy ... they are sucking in billions ... happy days for them, screw the economy.

Of course we need to drill, we have natural gas as well as oil (and we are the Saudi Arabia of coal, and we can make safe nukes) ... Obama is like a college kid that thinks he has all the answers when he understands nothing.   He seems to really believe in some hippy dippy world ... all you need is love ...

the Obamassiah will lead us into his Marxist nirvana ... but as things fall apart, so will his support ... maybe some adult blue dog Democrats will save us.

29 BTW, despite how the MSM spin it, "Porcupine caribou" are not a rare, endangered species of caribou.  It's just the name of a particular herd of caribou, utterly indistinguishable from the hundreds of other herds of caribou across the area.

30 WTF?! There's oil in my wildlife refuge? Get that pollutant out of there. How about some advanced directional drilling STRAIGHT DOWN. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and suggest that I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a well in the pristine wasteland of ANWR, and a well just outside of ANWR drilling at an angle, would I? Is there some remarkable subtlety of tundra, a geo-climatic nuance that differentiates ANWR from plain old Arctic? Oh, man, I remembered their prize-winning argument. "But it will take years to complete, it won't help us today!" Can't wait to hear that.

31 >> I DRINK YOUR MILSHAKE!

LOL you win!!   DRAINAGE ELI!!!!!!

32 um, to my knowledge this is widely done, not some costly alternative (the alternative being the construction and linking up of a whole new drill site).  strange that it was forbidden before...

33

OT  Did you all see that Dodd and others have introduced the brown shirt bills . . .(taken from Dodd's own site)

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) today announced the introduction of their “Service for All Ages” initiative, a group of four bills that will expand and strengthen opportunities for Americans of all ages to serve their communities.  The initiative includes the Semester of Service Act, the Summer of Service Act, the AmeriCorps: Together Improving Our Nation (ACTION) Act, and the Encore Service Act.

34 Alaska should just cite the Kelo decision and seize ANWR.

35 I think Gov. Palin brought this up as a rebuttal to Obama's first No Drill, No Way statement ...

I don't have a link ...

36 If you've ever seen caribou, you know. They're stupid animals. Almost as stupid as moose. But moose are adaptable enough so that something like a highway, oil rig or pipeline doesn't phase 'em.

Stupid animals that can't adapt to changes in their environment die out. It's been happening for millions of years. There's a science-y word for the process....can't remember....some bearded white guy came up with the idea....starts with an "E"....

37 They stole this from an episode of the Simpsons for god's sake!
Remember?
It led to Mr. Burns getting shot?

38 Sure, this protects above-ground fauna. But think of the gophers and worms! Plus, plant roots extend below ground, you reichwing ecofascists!

39 #37.  Electing a tax and spend liberal?

40 Drilling in ANWR could, some day, actually result in real energy that can be used by real Americans.

Consequently, the Democrats will be against it. Instead, they will propose clean energy, like putting up windmills in our yard to run our toasters, or re-doing our roofs in solar panels so we'll have enough energy to occasionally run our electric alarm clock. And don't forget the battery powered cars, that's going to work out just fine, especially in SoCal., a place where they already have blackouts during the summer, but I'm pretty sure that Obama promised me that the power grid will soon be powered by feelings of good hope, and well, that means that if libtards start buying electric cars, the grid will have more than enough power for ever and ever and ever. Because Obama said so.

41     That's fucking it!..I'm blowing my $13/week on a new Escalade. How many of these fucking Caribou do I need to hitch up to it do cruise at 70mph?

42 The last time I tried "directional drilling" I got slapped.

43 Why do I get the feeling that the Obama and the Democrats want America reduced to a macro-scale case of shelter shock?

44 With a little more research, couldn't we use "directional drilling" to suck the oil out from under Siberia, or get Colombia to suck the oil out from under Venezuela?

Would probably be too expensive to try and screw Hugo.  Venezuelan oil is heavy (thick, viscous) and sour (high in sulfur).  Extra costs to cracking/cleaning on top of horizontal drilling.

45 Payaso, try after you get out of jail. Se also, L. Craig

46

OT again, sorry

Just heard on Fox News radio update that Obama health care admin. just confirmed that healthcare workers will not be allowed to "opt out" of performing abotrtions.

I knew he was going to do this, but I thought it might take a while.  I guess a press briefing will be next week on that topic.

47

The last time I tried "directional drilling" I got slapped.

Sounds like your compass was pointing in the wrong direction, my friend.

48 36: I also remember Gov. Palin talking about this during the campaign but can't find a link.

49

Can't get linky to work. On the upside, I now have a submission to FailBlog[dot]org; here's how the error reads:

An error occured while rendering your error request.

I kid you not.

50

Try getting a permit for a windmill. I live on 2 acres and my borough would not let me put one up over 12' tall. Blades could fly off and kill "the children(tm)". 

To put solar panels on the roof of my barn, I had to get all of my neighbors to OK it. Lest some glare create visual pollution.

I Have a Marcellus Shale lease on my 71 acre farm. The company can't get permits to drill, however.

Scranton Pa (drink) is covered with strip mines, but try getting a cell tower put up, where people fucking want them.

This is just all bullshit. Fred Flinstone will look hi tech in 4 years.

51 11 With a little more research, couldn't we use "directional drilling" to suck the oil out from under Siberia, or get Colombia to suck the oil out from under Venezuela?


I don't know about the US, but that's what China, et al. are doing to us in the Gulf of Mexico.

52 I don't know about the US, but that's what China, et al. are doing to us in the Gulf of Mexico.

Chinese offshore oil rig + spread of Mk48 Torpedos = splodey goodness.

53 But what of the eight miles worth of earthworms that will be slaughtered?  Won't someone think of the earthworms?!?!?  *sob*

54 BP been drilling like this on the slope for at least 10 years. Even the fucking Discovery Channel assholes knew that. Where you people been? This is not new.

55 While there is obviously some expense involved, lateral drilling and extraction can be perhaps looked at as an underground pipeline/drilling project.  Some of the lateral infrastructure to transport the crude might be needed anyway.

56

Why isn't this getting any press?!!11!! Legislation introduced yesterday: House Resolution 199: Providing that the Congress should stop passing massive Government bailouts.

57 I have never heard of porcupine caribou, just googled them, they are just caribou. No quills. Huge disappointment.

58
Someone,  please,  SUCK MY MILKSHAKE!

  -ANWR

59

I'm with #7.  Porcupine Caribou sounds like a mutated version of caribou with great defense/offense capabilities - not only can it stomple you/impale you on its antlers, but it can launch death quills from a distance and stop most rounds from impacting on its hide.

We need to recruit these Ruminant-Americans to drop into Afghanistan, spreading terror amongst our enemies, defeating their RPGs and impaling their love-lorn fighters on the quills.  With hard work and luck, the mating call of the Porcupine Caribou ("bloooort!") may soon be the call of death to our enemies.

It is the least these Scandi sleigh steppers can do.

60

And a nut threatens Obama even though the nut probably isn't a BC truther. (Will this hurt perceptions about the involved group?)

61

#37

Deer are stupid, and highways don't phase them...though the traffic can have an affect.  (insert horn, screeching brakes, crumpling metal/splat sound here)

62

Markie Marxist sez:  "We're determined to block energy production until America is no longer a capitalist country.  We mean to destroy capitalism by bringing America down to the level of a third world country so that socialism looks like salvation."

"If you've noticed, we've tried to cut off capitalist America's access to all raw materials.  Logging, mining, drilling, hunting, fishing, trapping, even grazing - if you want it, we say that you can't have it.  Of course, we never had a problem with the Soviet Union's horrendous environmental behavior, but then, they weren't capitalists were they?" 

63 If we can do that, we ought to be able to drill under Castro.

Frankly, it'd be a worthwhile investment to figure out how to get Pemex into the 21st century in a manner that doesn't pinch Mexico's sovereignty nerve (and gives us access to a share of what comes out.)

Of course, that implies that we've got a rational energy program in this country, which we won't get with Obama's three climate-fraud amigos running the show. 

64 Only 8 miles from ANWR!?!?! That's still too close for those filthy neo-con capitalists. Keep those rethuglicans away from "The Most Precious And Beautiful Place In The World".

65 One would also note that this is Begich attempting to buy some goodwill among a voter base who's probably experiencing some degree of Democrat-buyer's remorse - "see, I'm not one of these loons!"

66

Well, Ace - for the first time ever on your blog I actually have relevant knowlege.  Other that nitpicking your poor arithmatic, that is.

I design directional drilling tools so allow me to ramble.  This isn't a new technology by any means.  While it is more expensive than a vertical or non-deviated well, cost is not a deal-breaker.

The article states an extended reach well of 8 miles.  Well, that's pretty damned extended.  I think this was a show-off well drilled by some company wanting to showcase it's hot new technology.  At least, I'm not aware of any real production well drilled horizontally that far.  Maybe 2 of 3 miles is a more realistic number to kick around for keeping costs within reason.

As for why this hasn't been done already - Oil Company X would still need the mineral rights for the land directly under ANWR.  You think the Sierra Club is gonna let that fly?

Personally, I think it's great liberal deuches keep our energy sources constrained.  When the only oil we can drill is very difficult to get, that drives the need for even better technology, and ensures me of complete job security.  How can I lose?

67

I think the Dems will make a sudden, principled stand against this proposed wasteful government boondoggle.

/sarc

68 Okay, liberals. Are you for ANWR or are you just determined to block energy production?

Nein!!!  No Drilling!!!   Energy production must HALT immediately to bring the US to it's knees!!!  Only when the US is subjugated will the New World Order rise!

69 Drilling from 8 miles away!?! That would be very inefficient and expensive. And take it from me - I know ALL about inefficient and expensive.

70 Drilling makes baby Gaia cry.

71

Was there ANYTHING about domestic drilling in the stimulus bill? I'm pretty sure that would create jobs and stimulate the economy, but someone correct me if I'm wrong. The Dems don't want drilling anywhere, and yet the Republicans let them off the hook with it.

Sack up, GOP, and call out these ridiculous dirt worshippers for this suicidal nonsense.

72 NO!  NO!  NO!

Only those who have actually been to ANWR can vote on whether we drill there or not.  And flying over or looking at pictures doesn't count.

Figure at most there will be about 20-25 people tops.  And they all work for oil companies.

73 Hey I just had a great thought! Oil is evil. Oil companies are evil. Oil profits are evil. 401Ks built from oil profits are evil. Money is evil. Cars are evil - except Hybrids. Don't be evil. Now, where's my iPod & macBook?

74

"Okay, liberals. Are you for ANWR or are you just determined to block energy production?"

 

I'll answer that for ya'.  Yes on the block, because  OsamaHusseinIslamObama supporters are stupid, ignorant, cum guzzeling gutter slut, lazy, pieces of shit that are the dregs of society as we know it.  Oh, in case you didn't notice,, YES I'M AM PISSSSSSSEDDDD OOOOFFFFF, at the lot of 'em to the nnnnttthhhhh degree.

SHIT!!!

 

I'll go sit in the corner now.

75 excellent

76 Deer are stupid, and highways don't phase them...though the traffic can have an affect.  (insert horn, screeching brakes, crumpling metal/splat sound here)

As I recall from my time in the great white north, the main highway running northeast out of Anchorage is lined with chain-link fencing, specifically to keep the damned moose off the road. About every 300 yards or so, there's a one-way, spring-loaded exit from the highway corridor. Kind of like an Injun fish trap. But the moose would still find their way onto the highway, and moose vs. car bustups were common.

77 They wont let us drill.Directly.Indirectly.Straight down or on a slant.Off the coast or on land.We will however build many,many windmills , and miles and miles of solar collectors.We are SO FUCKED.

78

Gentlemen, please. Enough with the hysterics. You're conservatives (I assume), and need to start acting the part.

Besides, I've made a startling discovery that will likely free this nation from its oil dependency. I have invented a car that runs off of farts.

Flatulence is the future.

79 Our energy future is assured!!We simply eat Mexican food and cabbage,much cabbage.We are saved!!!

80

I'll answer that for ya'.  Yes on the block, because  OsamaHusseinIslamObama supporters are stupid, ignorant, cum guzzeling gutter slut, lazy, pieces of shit that are the dregs of society as we know it.  Oh, in case you didn't notice,, YES I'M AM PISSSSSSSEDDDD OOOOFFFFF, at the lot of 'em to the nnnnttthhhhh degree.

SHIT!!!

I'll go sit in the corner now.

You've got the fever, and the only cure is to buy more ammo. And maybe some freeze dried food. And have a beer for goodness sake. Most of all, turn off tv news, it will only cause you to scream more.

Also, when describing the Followers of The Messiah, you forgot to add "Commie fucktard nanny state liberals" in there.

81

Our energy future is assured!!We simply eat Mexican food and cabbage,much cabbage.We are saved!!!

Yes. Insider tip: I recommend investing heavily in Taco Bell before I roll out the car. You'll make a fortune.

82 I'm thinking of some names. The Fumeora Stankwagon Kia Stinkia Jeep Wrancid Aqua Caliente

83 Maybe it isn't the expense so much as the new technology that might have been unavailable before...

84 The whole "green jobs" scam depends on the "Global Warming" scam which requires artificial shortages of carbon fuels (scams), regulations against their use and caps and trades to raise the price.  Then they put in subsidies for alternatives like solar and wind to make them less uncompetitive.

This is a complete program here, scam after scam, and there is not a chance they are going away from it until gas prices get high again and public pressure is applied.

85 LOL.. you all are on a roll tonight.

86

I know where I'd like to drill. Not that I encourage teh ghey, but I would so love to have barry bent over the hood of a fucking Prius.

With my unicorn reins in his mouth.

87

Silly peasants. In 10 years, electricty will only be for left wing upper class elites who deserve its conveniences after spending long days deciding how to run your life for you.

You, my dirty little bible humping gun clingers, will be expected to dry your feces and burn it for fuel.

88

So we can get all the oil that is within 8 miles of the edge of the ANWR, or perhaps 2-3 given the comments by someone who actually knows something above (and you really ought to consider whether you belong here, buddy. IYKWIMAITYD) ?

Well, Bee-eFF-Dee.  This is just a way for libs to say "See, we are drilling in ANWR" without actually having any positive impact on supply, while giving a big <wink-wink> to the environuts.  The environuts don't give a rat's ass about the environment - they want the Great Satan (that's us) humbled, so they'll be cool with it, just watch.

89 High prices are nearly as good as none at all ....

90 Go to tngop.org and get yourself a GREAT BUMPER STICKER

91

Can I use the HOV lane if I have Caribou pulling my SUV?

92 "Whose in your wallet?

93

Thank you all for this tip. Speaking of tips, I'll discuss this with my honey Michelle on our date night. We're thinking of going to this nice new dining establishment where all my friends in Congress go, and Michelle has some new fashion to show you all. It's too bad you can't come along but my honey will get you a doggie bag.

And by the way, thanks for picking up the tab, and for catching the tip. Make it a big tip, because that's how I roll.

Oh yeah, Michelle say's fuck you; hoo what a kidder.

94 Obama's environmental policies are not really about pollution reduction, anymore than his tax plans are about raising revenue.  That's why he is fine with high gas costs and doesn't care about the Laffer curve.  The true goal of both is to use the government as a tool for social engineering:  the environmental policies are to force people into an urban mass-transit society, and the tax purposes are to redistribute wealth.  Both goals lead to one destination: priming society into accepting socialism.  If the capitalist system and government are destroyed in the process, all the better to kick start the revolution.

95 I still believe energy is a winning anti-Dem issue, I don't want to say 'conservative' or 'GOP' because as far as I'm concerned it's just common sense.

I'd love to see the Anti Climate Fraud Party.  Someone needs to expose Obama's trillion-dollar carbon tax for the nonsense it is.  

96 wooga - I don't think they will like the results of this revolution.

97 "Soylent green is ...."

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99 I'm in the industry as well on the rig side. 6 and 7 mile extended reach has already occurred. ExxonMobil at Sakhalin Island.

We're designing two new rigs for even farther distances (bigger and more powerful). One for Exxon at Sakhalin and one for BP on the North Slope to drill offshore Prudehoe.

MC

100 #98.  moldy hippies ???

101 did anyone consider the harm to worms, grubs, microbes, mouses..?

102 The reason the Democrats don't like producing more energy is because then they will have less control over people's lives. If the people are forced to use less energy, they the state has more influence.

103 The reason the Democrats don't like producing more energy is because then they will have less control over people's lives.

That is the gods honest truth.  When technologies become available that would allow millions of homes to go "off grid" to a large degree (its not too far off), you can expect government, and democrats in particular, to resist it at every step.  Its about the ability to tax.  The govt's ability to tax is directly tied to the commerce clause.  Anything wholly produced intra-state they can't touch -- which means they NEED "big" solutions or the tax revenue will collapse.

104

They Gov't needs to come on your property to check your solar/windpower. Bi-yearly. Who knows what else they will find.

The Electric car is just a big tether, to keep people in their place.

105 Directional drilling is expensive, but it's done all the time, even on wells where you're directly above the target formation.  It's all about maximizing contact with the production zone.  And 8 miles sounds like a lot, but it isn't as hard as you'd think.  This wouldn't be a new idea to the drilling companies that would be fighting for the contracts... extended reach directional drilling is a common practice.

106 Well, directional drilling into Iraqi oil fields was one of the charges that Saddam had made against the Kuwaitis back in '90, so it's been around for awhile. Maybe Alaska should just make like a Baathist, break out the AKNG and invade ANWR. According to the libtards, we're pretty good at that "war for oil" thing, so let's do it for real.

If nothing else, it'll give the libs something to protest. They're so much happier when they're wearing paper-mache puppet heads and chanting in the streets.

Palin Drilled!
Oil Spilled!

107 One of the services I perform is tutoring a group of kids at the local elementary twice a week.  I tutor them in critical thinking skills and higher level questioning in a sort of discussion format.  They each have questions and we discuss their questions and try to find deeper problems within their thinking.  Preface complete, here's what happened today:
A girl asked "What would America be like if we had no natural resources?" (we later clarified this to cover all "fossil fuels."  Our discussion ran the table and included a variety of thoughts ranging from the impact on society and the economy directly to the implications it would have on our foreign policy.  At the end of the discussion only one of them still thought fossil fuels were bad because they had been confronted with what America would be like if they were suddenly gone tomorrow.  That was when I told them that we have an abundance of resources in America, but the President is doing everything in his power to make them inaccessible.  6th-8th graders get it.
The best thing about this bill is that it makes sense.  This is the type of solution you would get from that congress of firefighters in the advertisements.  It will be all the more interestign watching the President and the Democrats fight it.

108 In a couple of years when we look back fondly at the Great Depression, we'll probably drill through a hippie's girlfriend to get the oil in ANWR.

109

ANWR is 40-60 miles east of Prudhoe Bay and the technology does not exist to directional drill that far.

 

BP is developing the Liberty field which is 6 to 8 miles offshore  north of Prudhoe at a cost of $1.5 billion. God only knows what it would cost to drill from outside of the borders of ANWR.

 

And for what? To "save" a few thousand acres of God forsaken wilderness that nobody sees? There are thousands of square miles of similar land all over Alaska but the environmentalists don't care about those areas......unless the oil companies show some interest.

110

sherlock at 89
"So we can get all the oil that is within 8 miles of the edge of the ANWR, or perhaps 2-3 ..."

No, the upshot of AxL's post was that we can't get ANY of the oil under ANWR because the mineral rights are owned by the Fed. Gov't just like the surface land. You're not allowed to angle drill to get oil from someone else's property. So we've got the same problem with enviro-nuts blocking it.

111 DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIINAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

112

Also, because the Polar bear is now an endangered species (by virtue of bogus Global Warming claims), oil companies will now find it very difficult indeed to drill anywhere in Alaska.  Why do you think they really wanted the Polar Bear listed?  Here's some info from a site about polar bears: "a polar bear's home range can be enormous, far greater than that of any other bear. A single polar bear may rove across an area twice as big as the country of Iceland."

Good luck drilling anywhere within any single Polar Bear's range - the ESA will prohibit it. 

113 LEFTISTS are opposed to anything that makes our nation stronger, so of course they'll be opposed to this. 

If they are promoting something, you can be sure that it is damaging.  If they are opposed to something, you can be sure that it is good. 

Why?

Because the left is EVIL.

114 Been thinking. Just last year the liberal fucks had aneurysms over ExxonMobil pulling down -rounding up- $50 billion in profits over a year. Now they just blew 20 times that in one month, with three times that on the horizon, and we hear...nothing. Lesse, company producing goods and services everyone wants and needs for relatively modest profits vs ginormous governmental toilet sucking our future and itself down the black hole of oblivion that most Americans don't want. I think hypocrisy has a new definition.

115 nike shoes

116

There is always a catch; #56 gets part of it; transportation.

The value of the ANWR reserves is their relative concentration and their relative proximity to the Pipeline.  They are concentrated in an area just (relative, here) north of the Pipeline.  Drill from the north, get further away.  Drill from the west, get further away.  (Conversely, drill from the east or south and you get closer to the Pipeline).

Directional drilling is nothing new, but drilling from further away and having a longer lateral transport path to the Pipeline isn't helpful.  The transport infrastructure will give the enviroweenies an issue to throw rocks at and delay, delay, delay....

117

So why worry about ANWR at all? Clearly the enviros will make it very difficult to explore. Well.......Somewhere there are reams of articles that say, 'ANWR only has MAYBE 1 billion barrels, not enough to justify all the damage so let's just get oil from Saudi and put up windmills.' Ignore them.Throw out all the resource projections you've ever seen. All of the supposed estimates are  based on USGS guesswork interpolated from very old data. Exactly one test hole has ever been drilled in ANWR, a joint test well over 30 that was funded by several oil companies. They got the data and so did the feds but the results were not made public. However, out of this one well, the feds have made some pretty low projections. Don't believe them.

 

Since then, oil exploration technology has dramatically improved and airborne and satellite imagery now allow oil companies to accurately estimate reserves without punching any holes. A buddy of mine is big in the awl bidness; he's one of the world's leading experts in constructing ice roads for exploration and he's been all over the North Slope for 20 years and hears what's going on. He tells me that the inside story is that ANWR has just as much oil on shore as Prudhoe, maybe more and there is more offshore as well.

Prudhoe is the biggest field ever found on US soil and the enviro Democrats want to keep an even bigger field locked up forever........for nothing.

118 We did a mini-Tea Party in Studio City last night. One of our signs said "They raised your sales tax! Thank them on Tuesday!", referring to the L.A. election this week. I swear to god, one idiot rolled down his car window and said, "we need the sales tax to pay for George Bush's war in Iraq." There is literally no underestimating the stupidity of these people.

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They will oppose any drilling, and use the enviroment as an excuse. 

I am a life long Alaskan and have heard all this crap from them.  They are preservationist, not enviromentalists or conservationists.  They want to stop all development of any kind and force us back into the stone age, and consider mankind a virus on the face of the earth.  This is a religion, not a cause and it needs to be exposed to all.

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Some common sense is needed here.  We need to use our own resources and not be reliant on countries who really don't like us for our energy needs!  We also need to inject the added wealth created using our own resources, into our economy to pay down the national debt and help us out of this recession. 

What they don't want Americans to find out is that these known oil deposits are much larger than is presently believed, as it will shoot down a big argument they continue to use that we are going to run out of fossil fuels soon.  This is one of their big arguments to try to force us to alternative, much more expensive sources of energy.  They are really out to destroy the United States, and are using this "enviroment argument" to cripple us and help our competitors gain advantages over us in trade.

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EIght miles horizontal? pfffffftttt.

Figure out a way to mount a drill bit on my swollen purple tip and I'll be up there next week. And you'll be calling for well testers and roustabouts the week after that.

Just one request  though. Make sure you find a BOP that fits my root. I don't wanna have to buy some numbnuts company a new BOP just cause there's blew apart.

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Whether it will work depends on what the geologic formation that holds the oil looks like.

It works in the Bakken because the oil is trapped in a narrow band of shale rock that is laying horizontally. You just have to get the bit into this narrow band, turn it sideways, and drill through that entire layer.  It works on shale gas plays the same way.

If the reservoir is vertical, then this won't work so well. You would drill down, turn sideways, then turning your bit down again.  If it's a HUGE formation, then the chances of missing what you're drilling for aren't as big, but if it's a little vertical pocket, the chances of missing are huge.

BTW you should see the response real caribou (as opposed to ANWR caribou) have to drilling locations. They climb up on our drill pad sites, which are bare of vegetation and elevated, to get away from the bugs and mosquitos in the grass in the summer. There will be a hundred of them laying up there on the gravel, getting a tan.  In the winter, they hang out near the pipeline, because it's warm and keeps them out of the wind.

Sc#$% the pansy ANWR caribou. Tell them to get with the program.

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