Re: [Vo]:Wild card in the Arctic??

2008-07-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Horace Heffner wrote: On Jul 30, 2008, at 5:25 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Thank you, Horace! Now, I wonder where Devoir got that 412 gBBL number? Sure doesn't seem to be in the report. Seems like they must have conflated the oil and gas numbers using some kind of conversion factor t

Re: [Vo]:Wild card in the Arctic??

2008-07-30 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jul 30, 2008, at 5:25 AM, Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Thank you, Horace! Now, I wonder where Devoir got that 412 gBBL number? Sure doesn't seem to be in the report. Seems like they must have conflated the oil and gas numbers using some kind of conversion factor to turn cubic feet of

Re: [Vo]:Wild card in the Arctic??

2008-07-30 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Thank you, Horace! Now, I wonder where Devoir got that 412 gBBL number? Sure doesn't seem to be in the report. Seems like they must have conflated the oil and gas numbers using some kind of conversion factor to turn cubic feet of natural gas into barrels of petroleum. Horace Heffner wrote

Re: [Vo]:Wild card in the Arctic??

2008-07-29 Thread Horace Heffner
On Jul 29, 2008, at 5:16 AM, Brian Prothro wrote: I will be interested to hear more on this. Brian Prothro http://tinyurl.com/5qrpta http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=1980&from=rss_home Best regards, Horace Heffner http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/

RE: [Vo]:Wild card in the Arctic??

2008-07-29 Thread Brian Prothro
Yes, it has been known that a whole lot of oil was in the Arctic, I was not aware it might be that much. Of course the question on some peoples mind is do we want to use it investing in new long term oil extraction and commitments or do we want to move towards cleaner energy solutions instead. I a

Re: [Vo]:Wild card in the Arctic??

2008-07-29 Thread Stephen A. Lawrence
Stephen A. Lawrence wrote: Heading off to bed, I took a glance at the headlines -- and noticed this, just in from Devoir: "Quatre cent douze milliards de barils de pétrole. Le tiers des réserves prouvées de la planète. Voilà ce que renfermeraient les profondeurs de l'Arctique, selon la plus