4 Billion Barrels of Oil That We Apparently Donlt Want

[Mule]

3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate—
Released: 4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM
Contact Information:
U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey
Office of Communication
119 National Center
Reston, VA 20192 Clarice Nassif Ransom 1-click interview
Phone: 703-648-4299

David Ozman 1-click interview
Phone: 720-244-4543

Reston, VA - North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.

A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.

http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1911

[Jim Richards]

Stop typing and go get it, Mule.

[Mule]

You must be the smartest guy in DC.

[IROC]

"Technically recoverable" sounds like code words for "very expensive to recover". This Bakken formation is not a new thing. What are the actual costs with recovering this oil? If this is such a no-brainer, why aren't we doing it?

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by Mule

You must be the smartest guy in DC.

Hmmm. Looking in either direction (towards the White House and back towards the Capitol), I'd have to agree with you.


Now, get hopping Mule!

[Mule]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Hmmm. Looking in either direction (towards the White House and back towards the Capitol), I'd have to agree with you.


Now, get hopping Mule!

Does Mule look like Exxon to you? Shell? BP? Your statement is more stupid than amusing. You wouldn't be the smartest guy in Flat Rock Alabama.

[Dantilla]

Originally Posted by Mule

...an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil

So.... There telling us about the discovery of undiscovered oil?

I must be the dumbest guy in Flat Rock, because that makes no sense to me. And I'm not even close to Flat Rock.

[Jim Richards]

Originally Posted by Mule

Does Mule look like Exxon to you? Shell? BP? Your statement is more stupid than amusing. You wouldn't be the smartest guy in Flat Rock Alabama.

Then why are you whining about this oil? If, for whatever reason you can't/won't do something about it, just STFU.

[Mule]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Then why are you whining about this oil? If, for whatever reason you can't/won't do something about it, just STFU.

Were you born like this or have you had to work at it?

[Jim Richards]

Yes, I was born to beotchslap whiners.

[Mule]

So you spend most of that time on yourself I take it?

[trekkor]

Careful or Jim will lash out at you:

...what on Earth is wrong with you? I simply answered your question precisely and concisely. You don't have to personalize this into some weird conflict.

KT

[Mule]

Originally Posted by trekkor

Careful or Jim will lash out at you:




KT

I have yet to see Jim post anything that was intended to do anything other than simulate a hemorrhoid.

What about Jim & Speedy in the steel cage grudge match?

[Jim Richards]

Thank you for straightening me out, Trekkor. I'll let Mule rant and whine without taunting him anymore.

[Mule]

Originally Posted by Jim Richards

Thank you for straightening me out, Trekkor. I'll let Mule rant and whine without taunting him anymore.

What? No more attempts at hemorrhoid simulation?

[Mule]

503 billion barrels roughly equals 25.1 cubic miles!

Or a barrel that would be 2 miles in diameter and 8 miles high. Hmmm.

[trekkor]

Thank you for straightening me out

No problem

Jim, I'd like to have a serious conversation with you someday.
You seem to have a lot of experience.



KT

[jyl]

Mule doesn't know a thing about oil, yet he posts endlessly about it here. Guys like him are ruining the signal-to-noise ratio of PPOT, and are one reason I spend less and less time here.

[Mule]

Originally Posted by jyl

Mule doesn't know a thing about oil, yet he posts endlessly about it here. Guys like him are ruining the signal-to-noise ratio of PPOT, and are one reason I spend less and less time here.

Rather than point out what you think I know or dont know, why don't you just correct the inaccuracies.

[jyl]

Because I am not paid to follow you around and pick up your mental litter.