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Short Wave Sportfishing[_2_]

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:22:43 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:02:59 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:

And the potential field on the OCS off New Jersey which could dwarf the
amount of oil that has ever been produced by the Middle East.

Interesting you should mention this. IIRC, you once mentioned that at
one time you worked for Texaco. At one time, I worked for ODECO and we
contracted several of Texaco's wells in the Baltimore Canyon, most of
them dry. We did find some gas, but I would be very surprised if the
Baltimore Canyon was commercially viable, let alone dwarf the Middle East.

According to some friends no longer in the production business (they
are in the exploration business) the original Baltimore Canyon test
wells were too shallow. I'm not a geologist so I have to take them at
their word. :)

You have to remember that new seismic techniques have found huge domes
- that's what tipped off Petrobras to the Tupi and the Carioca-Sugar
Loaf fields off Brazil. Both of those fields combined are massive in
terms of quantity and are located in areas where previous test drills
produced nothing.

ODECO huh? :)

When was that? Before or after Murphy Oil bought them out.

Know quite a few people who worked for ODECO.

Oh no - we may know each other in real life!! :)