Comments on: Offshore Energy (Oil) Could Create 6,700 Jobs for N. Carolina http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-5890 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:19 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-5890 Don't forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980's, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves. And that is a good thing! Don’t forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980′s, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves.

And that is a good thing!

]]> By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-23667 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-23667 Don't forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980's, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves. And that is a good thing! Don’t forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980′s, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves.

And that is a good thing!

]]> By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-23668 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-23668 Don't forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980's, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves. And that is a good thing! Don’t forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980′s, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves.

And that is a good thing!

]]> By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-23669 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-23669 Don't forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980's, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves. And that is a good thing! Don’t forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980′s, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves.

And that is a good thing!

]]> By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-23670 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-23670 Don't forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980's, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves. And that is a good thing! Don’t forget that even before the first hole is drilled off of our Atlantic coast, extensive exploration would need to be done. The last exploration done was in the 1980′s, and that was done using single streamer, low resolution 2D technology. All of those datasets are basically obsolete, and new surveys would have to be shot using the current 3D high res multi streamer technology. This would take time, and it would also mean lots of jobs, and money for the areas that the seismic crews were working. All of the estimates of the reserves recoverable off of our Atlantic coast are extrapolated from those old datasets. The new technology used to survey, as well as the current processsing technology, would no doubt show much more recoverable reserves.

And that is a good thing!

]]> By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-5889 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:31:01 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-5889 @Toni: Why is drilling off of the mid Atlantic coast, the so-called 'graveyard of the atlantic', any different than drilling off of the coast of Newfoundland, or any where in the North Sea, or in the Arctic Ocean, or in 3,000 meters of water in the Gulf of Mexico? The engineering requirements for drilling and maintaining rigs in these places (and others I did not mention), far exceeds the engineering required to drill and maintain a facility off of our Atlantic coast. @Toni:

Why is drilling off of the mid Atlantic coast, the so-called ‘graveyard of the atlantic’, any different than drilling off of the coast of Newfoundland, or any where in the North Sea, or in the Arctic Ocean, or in 3,000 meters of water in the Gulf of Mexico?

The engineering requirements for drilling and maintaining rigs in these places (and others I did not mention), far exceeds the engineering required to drill and maintain a facility off of our Atlantic coast.

]]> By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-23666 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:31:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-23666 @Toni: Why is drilling off of the mid Atlantic coast, the so-called 'graveyard of the atlantic', any different than drilling off of the coast of Newfoundland, or any where in the North Sea, or in the Arctic Ocean, or in 3,000 meters of water in the Gulf of Mexico? The engineering requirements for drilling and maintaining rigs in these places (and others I did not mention), far exceeds the engineering required to drill and maintain a facility off of our Atlantic coast. @Toni:

Why is drilling off of the mid Atlantic coast, the so-called ‘graveyard of the atlantic’, any different than drilling off of the coast of Newfoundland, or any where in the North Sea, or in the Arctic Ocean, or in 3,000 meters of water in the Gulf of Mexico?

The engineering requirements for drilling and maintaining rigs in these places (and others I did not mention), far exceeds the engineering required to drill and maintain a facility off of our Atlantic coast.

]]> By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-5888 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:19:08 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-5888 @ Gray Berryman: How exactly will offshore development damage the tourist industry in NC? Has offshore energy development damaged the tourist industry in California? Has it damaged it in Texas? What exactly does it have to do with low density development? I read this report, and there was no evasiveness. There was no doubt in my mind that the report dealt with oil and gas, even before I read the first word. Development of our offshore oil and gas resources will go much further than any existing technology that exists to harvest wind or wave power, along with the fact that you cant pave the roads, make fertilizer, plastics, power cars and airplanes, construct buildings, or get your food to the cities with wind or wave power. @ Gray Berryman: How exactly will offshore development damage the tourist industry in NC? Has offshore energy development damaged the tourist industry in California? Has it damaged it in Texas? What exactly does it have to do with low density development?

I read this report, and there was no evasiveness. There was no doubt in my mind that the report dealt with oil and gas, even before I read the first word.

Development of our offshore oil and gas resources will go much further than any existing technology that exists to harvest wind or wave power, along with the fact that you cant pave the roads, make fertilizer, plastics, power cars and airplanes, construct buildings, or get your food to the cities with wind or wave power.

]]> By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-23663 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:19:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-23663 @ Gray Berryman: How exactly will offshore development damage the tourist industry in NC? Has offshore energy development damaged the tourist industry in California? Has it damaged it in Texas? What exactly does it have to do with low density development? I read this report, and there was no evasiveness. There was no doubt in my mind that the report dealt with oil and gas, even before I read the first word. Development of our offshore oil and gas resources will go much further than any existing technology that exists to harvest wind or wave power, along with the fact that you cant pave the roads, make fertilizer, plastics, power cars and airplanes, construct buildings, or get your food to the cities with wind or wave power. @ Gray Berryman: How exactly will offshore development damage the tourist industry in NC? Has offshore energy development damaged the tourist industry in California? Has it damaged it in Texas? What exactly does it have to do with low density development?

I read this report, and there was no evasiveness. There was no doubt in my mind that the report dealt with oil and gas, even before I read the first word.

Development of our offshore oil and gas resources will go much further than any existing technology that exists to harvest wind or wave power, along with the fact that you cant pave the roads, make fertilizer, plastics, power cars and airplanes, construct buildings, or get your food to the cities with wind or wave power.

]]> By: jes http://cleantechnica.com/2009/07/28/offshore-energy-oil-could-create-6700-jobs-for-n-carolina/#comment-23664 jes Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:19:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=2954#comment-23664 @ Gray Berryman: How exactly will offshore development damage the tourist industry in NC? Has offshore energy development damaged the tourist industry in California? Has it damaged it in Texas? What exactly does it have to do with low density development? I read this report, and there was no evasiveness. There was no doubt in my mind that the report dealt with oil and gas, even before I read the first word. Development of our offshore oil and gas resources will go much further than any existing technology that exists to harvest wind or wave power, along with the fact that you cant pave the roads, make fertilizer, plastics, power cars and airplanes, construct buildings, or get your food to the cities with wind or wave power. @ Gray Berryman: How exactly will offshore development damage the tourist industry in NC? Has offshore energy development damaged the tourist industry in California? Has it damaged it in Texas? What exactly does it have to do with low density development?

I read this report, and there was no evasiveness. There was no doubt in my mind that the report dealt with oil and gas, even before I read the first word.

Development of our offshore oil and gas resources will go much further than any existing technology that exists to harvest wind or wave power, along with the fact that you cant pave the roads, make fertilizer, plastics, power cars and airplanes, construct buildings, or get your food to the cities with wind or wave power.

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