"Floyd L. Davidson" wrote:

Jim Yanik wrote:
"Pete C." wrote in :

"Floyd L. Davidson" wrote:

"Pete C." wrote:

Directional drilling technology is where it is now because it meets the
current need.

"a few small sites along the perimeter using current
directional drilling technology could tap ANWR with
essentially no impact."

That is what you said to start with. It is purely a
fabrication from your imagination. Now you are changing
what you say, admitting that this statement was false.

But what you are saying *now* is false too.

Same basic technology just needs to be scaled / adapted to the task.


Do you honestly think that the necessary upgrades to the
technology would not be made in short order if clearance to drill from
selected sites around ANWR were given?

Nobody in their right mind thinks that is technically
feasible. There are *no* wells being drilled those
kinds of distances, nor anywhere even close, using *any*
kind of technology, much less being drilled
horizontally!

They can most certainly manage the ANWR drilling given the goal and the
funding. The underlying technology certainly exists. There have already
been non oil well scientific drilling projects reaching the depths
necessary.

Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of horizontal drilling into Iraqi oil
deposits before the 1991 Gulf War.
That was part of his justification for the invasion of Kuwait.

But it wasn't anything like the distances which ANWR
would require.

The thing with large reservoirs like those in
Kuwait/Iraq is that from a location right on the border,
a well that angles a mile or so horizontally could then
drain an area several square miles in size.

The geology in ANWR is distinctly different, with oil
caught in many very small pockets even within a given
reservoir. Directional drilling allows a well to break
into those pockets and extract oil that would not
otherwise drain into any central point being pumped by a
vertical well.

Basically Pete hasn't go a clue what the technology
does, and is making up a fantasy to suit his needs.

No, you have your head stuck on the limits of how the technology is
currently used. Take off the blinders and look at how it could be used
with a little modification.