Comments on: Offshore Energy (Oil) Could Create 6,700 Jobs for N. Carolina

By: jes

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:19 +0000

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

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000

And that is a good thing!

By: jes

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000

And that is a good thing!

By: jes

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000

And that is a good thing!

By: jes

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:40:00 +0000

And that is a good thing!

By: jes

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:31:01 +0000

@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

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:31:00 +0000

@Toni:

By: jes

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:19:08 +0000

@ 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

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:19:00 +0000

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.

By: jes

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:19:00 +0000

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.

By: jes

jes — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:19:00 +0000

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.

By: Offshore Jobs Expert

Offshore Jobs Expert — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:29:13 +0000

Developing renewable sources of energy needs time and commitment. Society should realize that this is the best alternative ever. It takes time.

By: Offshore Jobs Expert

Offshore Jobs Expert — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:29:00 +0000

Developing renewable sources of energy needs time and commitment. Society should realize that this is the best alternative ever. It takes time.

By: Offshore Jobs Expert

Offshore Jobs Expert — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:29:00 +0000

Developing renewable sources of energy needs time and commitment. Society should realize that this is the best alternative ever. It takes time.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:20:19 +0000

They routinely conflate dirty energy with energy, as if there can be no other kind.

I think its policy, kind of brainwashing. It works.

What we should do is do the same thing: always call renewable energy sources “energy”, and call fossil fuels the subset “fossil energy”

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:20:00 +0000

They routinely conflate dirty energy with energy, as if there can be no other kind.

I think its policy, kind of brainwashing. It works.

What we should do is do the same thing: always call renewable energy sources “energy”, and call fossil fuels the subset “fossil energy”

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:20:00 +0000

They routinely conflate dirty energy with energy, as if there can be no other kind.

I think its policy, kind of brainwashing. It works.

What we should do is do the same thing: always call renewable energy sources “energy”, and call fossil fuels the subset “fossil energy”

By: Toni

Toni — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:50:15 +0000

Why would anyone think offshore oil drilling in the famed “graveyard of the atlantic” is a good idea???

By: Toni

Toni — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:50:00 +0000

Why would anyone think offshore oil drilling in the famed “graveyard of the atlantic” is a good idea???

By: Toni

Toni — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:50:00 +0000

Why would anyone think offshore oil drilling in the famed “graveyard of the atlantic” is a good idea???