Yes, Virginia, There Will be Blood
Will there be blood?
Awesome news, it appears that somebody out there, if they haven’t been listening to me, has at least had the smarts to figure it out for themselves- not only are oil companies now flocking to the Bakken to tap the veritable ocean of black stuff under North Dakota, but in South Dakota they’re building the first new refinery since 1976. This means that not only will we have the capacity to increase production and lower gas prices, but that someone actually believes that there will be a need for such a facility. Optimism being rare these days, this news comes at a time when it couldn’t be more welcome.
It’s so rare I get to tell people something important has happened, and I’m actually happy about it.
New South Dakota Oil Refinery One Step Closer to Reality : Gas 2.0
First in America Since 1976
Voters have said yes to a zoning ordinance that would result in construction of the nation’s newest oil refinery in over 30 years.
The highly contentious issue has pitted neighbor against neighbor in Union County, SD for months after Hyperion Energy first applied for a zoning permit to build the refinery.
Elk Point, SD city officials, quoted in the Sioux City Journal, were elated over the vote, saying it could bring thousands of new jobs and millions of dollars into the farming community.
Oil Rigs Begin Drilling in North Dakota’s, The Big Lake
Oil companies are now drilling beneath North Dakota’s big lake.
Oil companies are using advanced horizontal drill techniques to tap crude oil and gas underneath Lake Sakakawea.
State mineral resources director Lynn Helms says it’s a logical extension to the formation known as the Middle Bakken. The formation lies two miles under the surface in western North Dakota and holds millions of barrels of oil.
Wells aiming for the Middle Bakken are drilled vertically to about 10,000 feet, and then “kick out” for as many feet horizontally. Industry officials say the technology has made huge advances in the past decade.
semperfried76 is the last hope for humanity.
Too bad he hates you all.The Army Corps of Engineers has approved three permits for drilling beneath Sakakawea and has requests for at least six others.
Maybe this will start a trend and we’ll be drilling off the coast of California by the end of the decade…
Well, one can only hope…
As if this gonna lower gas prices… the lesser of the evils here is the idea we’ll be making our own oil baron’s richer and not the foreign ones.
Comment by Trey — June 10, 2008 @ 8:03 pm
Maybe so, but even that’s preferable to what we’re doing now; at least with our oil companies making money and increasing production, there will be more work in terms of oil rig and refinery workers, which means that my brother, who works as a derrickman when he’s actually employed, might be able to move himself and his kids back into their own place. I admit it, I’m a tiny bit biased in favor of our oil companies, money-grubbing bastards though they may be. After all, why should the money go to some foreign money-grubbing bastard who’s just going to use the money to stab us in the back (Or in the front, as may well be the case with Venezuela). Fact: right now, we buy most of our oil from Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico. I’ve no beef with Canada, but the Saudis, no matter how much they say they love America, are not to be trusted. There is plenty of reason to believe that there are lot’s of rich Saudis that just plain want us dead. Case in point: Osama Bin Laden, and the majority of the 9-11 terrorists. Mexico, as well, should not receive a dime from us- they’ve gotten so bold with their dumping of their nation’s poor into our populace that they’ve allowed their military to be hired out by so-called “Coyote’s” (Human Smugglers) as muscle, and have in fact been reported to have engaged South Texas law enforcement officials, to protect drug runners. In some schools in Mexico, they teach that most of the American Southwest (Aztlan, as they call it) was stolen by the U.S., when in fact most of it was purchased, and that it belongs to them by birthright. One province in Mexico even went so far as to sue the state of Arizona, for disallowing government benefits and voting rights to illegal aliens, claiming it was driving them back across the border and damaging their economy. What the fuck do they think it was doing to ours?
The top fifteen list of countries we get oil from includes Iraq and Kuwait, both of which ought to be straight-up giving us oil to pay off the enormous expense of liberating both countries from the grip of Saddam Hussein. (Or maybe not, the U.S. did put Saddam in power, after all- what say we just don’t buy any more of their crude and call it squaresies?) Also in the list is Venezuela (which owns Valero, now a major gas station chain here in the U.S.), an openly Socialist nation which has repeatedly gone out of it’s way to let the U.S. know that it doesn’t care for us all that much. Why do we even allow trade with this sort of regime? When did we stop thinking of the Socialists and Communists as our enemies? They damn sure treat us as theirs…
So, yeah, lesser of two evils, I hear that. The sad, plain truth is that in life, there isn’t always an ideal choice to be had (much like our current presidential candidates), and sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and take the option which stings just a little bit less.
Comment by semperfried76 — June 11, 2008 @ 10:34 am
what is the refinery being built in s.d…..looking for bakken oil drillers …i know only about 1 small company stock exchange wseg
Comment by dick — July 20, 2008 @ 10:35 pm