Al Gore on Conan

Sounds great, however.... Kuwait has one of the largest recoverable oil reserves in the world and most, if not all, of its production is still due to primary forces. The primary and secondary forces are expected to recover approximately 45% of the oil in place.1,2 The huge volume of unrecoverable oil will be the target of enhanced oil recovery techniques that have become attractive because of the higher oil prices.

Reference: Review of and Outlook for Enhanced Oil Recovery Techniques in Kuwait Oil Reservoirs. By Saad F. Alkafeef, SPE, and Alforgi M. Zaid, SPE, College of Technological Studies Presented at the International Petroleum Technology Conference, 4-6 December 2007, Dubai, U.A.E.

In other words, flowing wells and pumping wells are expected to recover only 45% of the oil that is there. What then? If we listen to you 65% of the available oil is lost.

You really need to research the history of the petroleum business. The middle east oil was discovered and produced by Western companies. The big American and British oil companies are either directly responsible for, or have participated in every oil find in the world from the

1800's.

And, by the way, all of the A-rabs who are today governing oil prices were taught in American universities. Mostly in Texas :-)

Obvious rhetoric. Oil is not limitless - that is not is one of the main factors that makes it so expensive. The Middle East is well aware that it can be used up. And it has been used in various quantities since the days of Babylon, or earlier.

Well, you can call it "devolatilzed crude" but what it really is asphalt.

$100 crude is $2.38 a gallon, Wiki says that the price of milk is between 3 and 4 dollars a gallon.

Since Arabs don't raise cattle that problem must be an indigenous American one :-) Regards,

J.B.

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jbslocum
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Almost as much as I spend reading the Bible and other religious tracts. ;-)

Cheers! Rich

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Richard the Dreaded Libertaria

Well, it's a good thing you spend your time studying climatology then, or we'd think that maybe you were talking through your hat. d8-)

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Ed Huntress

The NYT's article today says that the Basel project has been permanently shut down because a study shows that millions of dollars of damage were likely from earthquakes generated by the project.

The US Energy Department is preparing a review of a similar project north of San Francisco.

Dan

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dcaster

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And todays NYT's says the AltaRock ( North of San Francisco ) Project has also been canceled. Part of the reasons seems to be that the advances in drilling technology were more hype than real.

Dan

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dcaster

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