Bakken shale oil- North Dakota Thanks Clay vice!

Thanks clay, but I could not open the video.  I am not successful at putting vids on my blog either without my guru, Shawn Baird's, help.

Sam





I crossed western ND a couple months ago and was amazed at all the oil works going on. Williston is booming with Halliburton

and other oil company equipment every where. Hotels are full of workers and trailer courts of 8x30 campers are going in. It is

a real boom town compared to the last time I was there. I didn't understand how they drilled laterally and I appreciate the information.







I think that one reason that it is booming is because much of the drilling is on private land in a business friendly state.







For those of you that haven't been following oil development in North Dakota, the Bakken shale underlies about the western third of the state



and is estimated to contain over 500 Billion barrels. Yes that is



Billion - not a typo. For comparison, Saudia Arabia has 25 billion and Alaska about the same. Recoverable with current technology is apparently 20% although two companies drilled two laterals in the same section in Mountrail County last summer. Up until those, the procedure was to go down vertically in one corner of a section (square mile) and drill horizontally (the lateral) at a diagonal across the section. (The



closing scenes in the video are not Bakken wells - the wells are too close together.) One lateral in each section taps into a very small amount of the shale formation. Multiple laterals in one section may substantially increase the recoverable amounts. I've seen the Bakken crude and seen chemical analyses of it - it is very close to kerosene or diesel fuel - some of the sweetest crude in the world.







Initial production from the Bakken wells ranges from 300 to 2400 barrels



per day depending on location since the shale seems to be different in



different areas.







The Sanish-Three Forks shale is immediately below the Bakken and



underlies all of North Dakota.







The Bears Den shale is below that and it also appears to underlie all of



North Dakota. No estimates on total oil in either of these yet. All



three of these formations extend into Montana and Saskatchewan.







I've seen one article on the Bakken oil developments in the Wall Street



Journal - nothing in any of the other media. Do you suppose that they



fear support for alternative energy development would collapse if the



public knew we have enough oil in North Dakota alone to supply our



country's needs for many years to come?? Apparently they would prefer to cover the prairies with wind farms and the deserts with solar panels.







Despite climategate and some seriously cold weather this winter they are still pushing global warming.







In contrast to most states, North Dakota had $1 Billion surplus last year



that they put into public schools and reduced our property taxes. Mostly



from the severance tax on oil.

Chilling letter to the President Thanks Luis Flores!

CHILLING LETTER FROM PROCTOR and Gamble





By Lou Pritchett, Procter & Gamble



A LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT*



THE LAST SENTENCE IS THE MOST CHILLING



Lou Pritchett is one of corporate America 's true living legends- an acclaimed author, dynamic teacher and one of the world's highest rated speakers. Successful corporate executives everywhere recognize him as the foremost leader in change management.



Lou changed the way America does business by creating an audacious concept that came to be known as "partnering." Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.



AN OPEN LETTER TO

PRESIDENT OBAMA



Dear President Obama:



You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike

any of the others, you truly scare me.



You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.





You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive

Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no

visible signs of support.



You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth

growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.



You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.



You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus

don't understand it at its core.



You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.



You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned

yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to

publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail..



You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America '

crowd and deliver this message abroad.



You scare me because you want to change America to a European style

country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.



You scare me because you want to replace our health care system

with a government controlled one.



You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly

capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.



You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose

that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of

living in the world.



You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics

against certain banks and corporations.



You scare me because your own political party shrinks from

challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.



You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider

opposing points of view from intelligent people.



You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both

omnipotent and omniscient.



You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything

you do.



You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the

Limbaugh's, Hannity's, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing,

conservative points of view.



You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.



Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will

probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.



Lou Pritchett

*

*

This letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it.

Big surprise. Since it hit the internet, however, it has had over

500,000 hits. Keep it going. All that is necessary for evil to succeed

is that good men do nothing. It's happening right now.*

American solutions for Winning the Future

Dear Sam,



Gas prices continue to climb toward record highs, with one analyst projecting gasoline prices as high as $4.25 per gallon by the end of May. And now, thanks to stalling on the part of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), the Congress may not pass a budget, which means the government is on the verge of a shutdown.



And what is President Obama doing during all of this? Yesterday he skipped town to visit a windmill factory in Pennsylvania to try to sell his failed green energy agenda. While there the President admitted, "I don't pump gas anymore," and told those with large families who need bigger vehicles, "you may want to think about a trade-in."



Meanwhile, thanks to the President's numerous bans and restrictions on domestic drilling, American oil production this year will drop by a shocking 220,000 barrels per day. Tens of thousands of Americans are out of work due to Obama's moratorium on drilling in the Gulf last summer. And earlier this week the communist government in Cuba actually announced it will expand drilling in the Gulf of Mexico this summer.



Yet our President's plan is to talk about green jobs at a windmill factory while loaning money to Brazil so they can drill offshore?



A recent poll found that 76% of Americans believe the United States isn't doing enough to develop its own oil and gas resources. In addition, clear majorities of Americans support more offshore drilling and shale oil production, while 55% of America opposes President Obama's ban on oil and gas drilling in much of America's coastal waters.



Instead of tilting at windmills and promoting policies that would dramatically increase the cost of energy, President Obama should do what the American people want: allow drilling for American oil and gas.



Sincerely,



Steve Everley

American Solutions



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Obama's views on Islam affect energy policy

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 3/4/2011 3:50:00 AM

A bestselling author and critic of Islam says President Barack Obama seems to have such a "warm and benign positive view" of Islam that he doesn't think it's necessary for the U.S. to free itself from its dependency on oil from Islamic countries.
This week oil prices topped $100 per barrel when the New York Mercantile Exchange opened for trading. Prices rose as fighting escalated in Libya, which is a major oil exporter to Europe. Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi pushed back against protestors in the eastern half of the country, battling for control of a key oil installation and an airstrip.

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Meanwhile, the American Petroleum Institute estimated that oil and gasoline supplies dropped last week in the U.S., with the American Automobile Association announcing that gasoline pump prices have risen to an average of $3.39 per gallon.

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Saying he means the pun intentionally, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch says Islamic countries literally have America over the barrel.

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"They have us caught in this because of oil," he states bluntly. "So that's why we should be opening up the Gulf for drilling and opening up the Alaskan oil reserves. These things are just commonsensical...."

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Spencer faults the responses of the past two administrations.

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"[George W.] Bush was tied in with the Saudis. I don't know what his motives were, but ultimately he did nothing to stop this foreign dependence," the Jihad Watch leader says. "And Barack Obama seems to have such a warm and benign positive view of Islam that he doesn't think that it's necessary to free us from this foreign dependence."

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Spencer says the United States is in a very bad position as a result of this energy policy.


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