AKIQPilot Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 This is great news. Lets put people to work and move a little closer to energy independence. Republicans took a major step forward early Saturday in their decades-long fight to open a piece of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling. Included as part of the sweeping tax reform bill passed by the Senate in a 51-to-49 vote is a highly controversial provision to allow energy exploration in a 1.5 million-acre swath of ANWR known as the “1002 area,” which lies along the coast. In total, ANWR spans more than 19 million acres. The drilling provision was seen as key to getting Sen. Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Republican, on board with the tax bill. “Opening the 1002 Area and tax reform both stand on their own, but combining them into the same bill, and then successfully passing that bill, makes this a great day to be an Alaskan,” she said in a statement after the measures passed. “I thank all of the senators who spent time learning about our opportunities and needs, and who joined us tonight in voting for Alaska. We are grateful for their support and eager to take the next steps for this pro-jobs, pro-growth, and pro-energy legislation.” Drilling in ANWR has become of the most high-profile fights in history between energy advocates and environmentalists. Those who favor oil drilling say only a small portion of the pristine area will be affected, and that exploration can be done safely; environmentalists maintain that opening any piece of ANWR to drilling sets a dangerous precedent, and they contend that an ecologically disastrous spill is inevitable. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/dec/2/oil-drilling-anwr-moves-ahead-part-senate-tax-bill/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayward Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 (edited) Man if this doesn't bring ole shitslinger back to the forum, I don't know if there's any hope left whatsoever... Edited December 2, 2017 by hayward 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 2, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 2, 2017 Good news IMO and what are you concerns Tom as far as any possible ecological damage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtralettucetomatoe580 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Good. Excellent. Now cut our interest in anything ME and toss them the big middle finger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bussman Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 12 minutes ago, xtralettucetomatoe580 said: Good. Excellent. Now cut our interest in anything ME and toss them the big middle finger. Amen brother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKIQPilot Posted December 2, 2017 Author Share Posted December 2, 2017 2 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Good news IMO and what are you concerns Tom as far as any possible ecological damage? Well ANWR is just 10 miles east of existing North Slope oil fields. Oil companies began exploring for oil on Alaskas North Slope in the 1950's. They have gotten very good at finding and developing these reserves with very little environmental impact. The worst spill in the history of the North Slope happened in 2006 when an oil transportation pipeline developed a small leak under the snow. The leak was discovered about 24 hrs after it began and about 2 acres of tundra was affected by the oil. The spill was cleaned up promptly and the pipeline was replaced. The state and feds and oil companies worked together to rehabilitate the tundra that was affected. They used many experimental rehabilitation methods as well as leaving a section untouched so it could rehabilitate on it's own. Now, a decade later you can see all the different methods of trying to regrow tundra. Turns out the area that was left to fend for itself is the one that looks exactly like tundra again now. The other areas look good but not as good as just letting Nature take it's course. Again, all the oil was removed from the 2 acres but a small portion of the contaminated tundra was left untouched after the oil was removed. Here is a map of existing resource development on Alaskas North Slope. ANWR is on the far right of this map. The coastal Plane of ANWR is just like the other areas that have been developed. The National Petroleum Reserve is on the right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted December 2, 2017 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted December 2, 2017 Awesome info....Thanks Tom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hayward Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Lot of neat info. Sure is cool to have an expert from the industry to explain in lay-mans terms how things are physically and politically effecting the area up there. CKF, and SSFB ought to have had you on the payroll long already Tom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturallyAspirated Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 What are the estimated extractable barrels in ANWR? Neal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01mxz800 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 43 minutes ago, hayward said: Man if this doesn't bring ole shitslinger back to the forum, I don't know if there's any hope left whatsoever... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKIQPilot Posted December 2, 2017 Author Share Posted December 2, 2017 North Slope oil fields have produced almost 20 billion barrels that have been transported down the Trans Alaska Pipeline System to Valdez. In Valdez the oil is put into Supertankers and sent to the west coast of the US. There are half a dozen refineries on the west coast, from the top of Washington State to Longbeach California. At peak production in 1989 there was 2.2 million bbls of oil per day moving down the pipeline each day. That was 25% of the the US's total production. There is about 300 trillion cubic feet of Natural Gas on the North Slope but there is not currently a pipeine system to get that Natural Gas to market. That is enough to supply the entire US with Natural gas for about a decade. That said, there is massive Natural Gas all over the US. There is a Natural Gas field about 2 miles under ground that spans between Dallas Texas and Shreveport Louisiana. Estimated reserves for that field alone are over 500 Trillion cu/ft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKIQPilot Posted December 2, 2017 Author Share Posted December 2, 2017 4 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said: What are the estimated extractable barrels in ANWR? Neal I'm not really sure Neal. ANWR has been closed to exploration or even seismic surveys for about 50 years. I think the major oil companies have an idea how much oil might be there but not much public information is available. I would guess there are reservoirs capable of a few hundred thousand BBLS/day. The National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, once called the Naval Petroleum Reserve Alaska, has massive quantities of oil too. The problem there is the reservoirs are very stretched out and there are several large river crossings between the oil and the existing infrastructure. Of course there is no road system into the NPRA so all exploration has to be done in winter using roads built out of ice and snow. It's very very expensive to explore in the NPRA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gold Member BOHICA Posted December 2, 2017 Gold Member Share Posted December 2, 2017 (edited) 17 minutes ago, NaturallyAspirated said: What are the estimated extractable barrels in ANWR? Neal Enough to cause extreme weather event frequency and strength increased by 10 fold and cause global see levels to raise 3 feet Edited December 2, 2017 by BOHICA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKIQPilot Posted December 2, 2017 Author Share Posted December 2, 2017 Just now, BOHICA said: Enough to cause extreme weather event frequency and strength increased by 10 fold and cause global see levels to raise 3 feet At a minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaturallyAspirated Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 1 minute ago, BOHICA said: Enough to cause extreme weather event frequency and strength increased by 10 fold and cause global see levels to raise 3 feet True dat. Neal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 I need snot back to correct Toms lies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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