Questions

What is a mature sedimentary basin ?, is it like when most of the oil it produced has been drilled, if so whats the opposite of a mature basin defined as ?
Thanks

I remember a few years ago when gas was .00+ a gallon and all it took was the GOP to say drill, and the prices began to go back down. Gas is reaching .00+ in parts of the country again, and I would bet anything that if Obama came out and said he will now [...]

Obama has already opened up drilling in Alaska and offshore, we have not gotten our jobs back and we are still paying .50-4.00 gallon. Even if we nationalizes the oil itself and just pay the companies to get it our of the ground for us it still would not be enough to get jobs just [...]

As part of a deal to raise the debt ceiling, will Republicans agree to cut corporate tax breaks for oil and gas drilling, and cut socialist price supports and payments for farms? How about money losing below market cattle grazing on federal lands and money losing timber sales? Here’s a list of cuts [...]

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The Everglades is a protected wilderness area in Florida; does it have a long future or will it be subject to oil and gas drilling? One candidate in Presidential Campaigning says "Yes" –
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann said Sunday that she would consider oil and natural gas drilling in [...]

I’m mainly concerned about the numbers that are used and their meanings.
A(acreage)= [L (actual lateral length drilled) x 0.11488 + 160] x 1.5 = 584.64 (rounded up to the nearest number evenly divisible by 40)

We are in the anger stage now so I guess I am in the waiting stage.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/aug2011/dril-a16.shtml
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Politics/obama-opens-offshore-drilling-oil-gas-exploration/story?id=10249811
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It has been reported that we have enough oil and gas to last for a 100 years; using today’s technology.

Lots of drilling for natural gas (fracking) where this unusual earthquake appeared.

Im trying to write an essay on oil drilling in florida and keep coming across the term exploration block.
Here’s an example: Iraq plans to auction 12 "exploration blocks", believed to contain mostly gas reserves, in November as part of the country’s efforts to capture natural gas for electricity generation, the country’s oil minister said [...]

Because that is exactly what Bachmann has proposed with her promise to kill US oil and gas jobs.
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tonalc: Works just fine for me. You obviously "Can’t see" what you don’t want to see.
keith: As CIC, it was Boy George’s duty to separate the lies from the facts. He didn’t even attempt [...]

But noo, we have to plant trees and not offshore drill because of the environment:O!
Oh yea, i forgot al gore took the liberty of inventing the internet haha

These oil reserves have been held back for an emergency. i.e. If the nation has to mobilize for a war or to react to a natural disaster. What if we use up our reserves in an era where drilling for new oil is prohibited.
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particular year. if the probability of oil discovery 0.3. find how much oil is likely to be discovred given that at least 100, 000 bars of oil will be strucked in any discovery and each rig is employed to drill six wells in the year. state all your assumptions

Do the same?

Alright after college I plan on becoming a Petroleum Landman and doing that for about 5 years, then become an independent landman and do that for about 3 years, and after that gather some investors and start my own oil and gas exploration company….my main goal is to be making 7 figures by the time [...]

AMES, Iowa – Police say a 16-year-old Iowa boy has died in a crash after another teen fueled up the car they were in and fled without paying.
Sixteen-year-old Brice Nelson of the central Iowa town of Nevada died at the scene early Saturday in Ames. Hospital officials say another passenger, a 14-year-old girl, is in [...]

This is a list of some of the books I’ve read. From this list can anyone suggest any other books I might like to read?
Books I’ve read:
Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyers
The Immortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare
The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare
The Uglies Trilogy by Scott Westerfeld
The Drakon series by Shana Abe
The Blue Blood series [...]

Because that is exactly what happened under Bush, when he crashed the economy. She has publicly stated she wants to do the same thing.
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my husband,( now ex)came here with his parents from Canada at age 3. He had a resident green card.After several arrest, all non violent alcohol related, he was deported back to Canada.Being a land owner,taxpayer, married to an American and having 3 children here, is it right that they could do this to him? [...]

From the site
http://www.texas-landman.com/local/texas-ranches-for-sale-the-duperier-texas-land-man
i know that there a lot of ranches in Texas.Now i am interested to know about the jobs available in this ranches?

We’re talking Alaska, off shore, every national forest any and every place they think they can find oil.

I may be purchasing my first home on a land contract from a person that i know that owns the house out right. the land contract would be a five year contract or sooner if i can afford to pay the house off. i have lived in the house at one time, not for [...]

From the site
http://www.texas-landman.com/
i know that a lot of new lands in Texas are going to be sold.What kind of land should i choose to buy a good land?

If you think there is no special treatment of the oil & gas industries, then I suggest you refer to the following sections of the tax code, all of which include special, favorable tax breaks for this industries:
Section 43–enhanced oil recovery credit
Section 45I–Credit for producing oil & gas from marginal wells
Section 48B–Qualifying gasification project credit
Section [...]