American Patriot wrote:
> On Jul 23, 1:35 pm, Major Debacle <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>> Prudhoe Bay peaked in 1998 at 2 million barrels per day. It's been
>> declining ever since. Every year, less and less oil is pumped
>> from the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Today, less than 700,000 barrels a day
>> are being pumped south.
>>
>> Total production from 1977 through 2005 was 13 billion barrels. As of
>> August 2006, BP estimated that only 2 billion recoverable barrels
remain.
>>
>> Prudhoe Bay is running dry.
>
> well i will give you the benefit of the numbers you presented, and
> that it is 'slowing up'.. but, if there were only 2 billion gallons
> left, and they continued to draw out 700,000 gals a day that would be
> about 4,400 more days - about 12 more years.
Barrels... not gallons.
7.8 years... not 12 years.
> 15 or 18 years if it continues to trickle,
If you want to count trickles, it could last for a thousand years.
> as you have said it is, and i have no reason to doubt you.
The numbers are from British petroleum:
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/us/bp_us_english/STAGING/local_assets/downloads/a/A03_prudhoe_bay_fact_sheet.pdf
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=57255
> hopefully by then all those new oil wells in Montana will be built
You mean the ones that the oil companies refuse to drill because there
is no oil there?
> and operational, and all of that oil coming out of the ohio/WVa/western
Pa
> area from shale compression will be online and running.
Extracting refinery feedstock from oil shale is a wet dream that will
never happen on a scale that will make even the slightest dent in
demand. The process is too destructive to the environment.
BTW, what is "shale compression"?
>
> there WON'T be any drilling in very environmentally sensitive areas
> like ANWR or off the coasts of our states on the coasts. there just
> won't......
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Output from Prudhoe Bay peaked in 1998 at 2 million barrels per day.
Today, less than 700,000 barrels a day are being pumped south.
Total production from 1977 through 2005 was 13 billion barrels. As of
August 2006, BP estimated that only 2 billion recoverable barrels remain.
Prudhoe Bay is running dry.
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