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Energy Review by Plunket Research [Uploaded 071111
- In 1997, Fortune magazine speculated that the nation's electricity
bill will drop 20% to 30% over the next five to ten years as result of heightened
competition caused by deregulation. This drop will continue a trend that
started in the early 1930s. Since then, the price of power, adjusted for
inflation, has already dropped approximately 66% on a per kilowatt-hour basis,
from roughly 28 cents to 8 cents
- The average oil well in the Gulf of Mexico flows 30,000 barrels of
oil daily--100 times the rate of flow of an onshore U.S. well. New, extremely
deep water wells will flow at much greater rates.
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Drought May Continue in Southwest Georgia [Uploaded 071111
- [Reviewed]
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GOM: Deepwater: A New Frontier for Resource Management [Uploaded 071111
- Today there are approximately 7600 active leases in the Gulf of Mexico,
48 percent of which are in deepwater. Contrast this to 5600 active leases
in 1992, only 27 percent of which were in deep water regions. By the end
of 1999, there were 30 producing fields, up 30 percent in 12 months.
- For the first time in history,
the amount of oil production in the Gulf of Mexico from deepwater rose above
50 percent of the total.
- In 1990 about four percent of the oil and less than one percent of
the natural gas produced on the Gulfs outer continental shelf was from
deepwater. By the end of 1999, more than 50 percent of the Gulfs oil
production and 20 percent of its natural gas was from that area. This represents
a 2,800 percent increase in oil produced from those depths during the
1990s and a 3,500 percent increase in natural gas production from
deepwater.
- it is reassuring to know that domestic production is growing
at a steady rate in the Gulfs deep water areas.
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Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil production surging [Uploaded 071111
- Production in the deepwater sector could reach as high as 620,000
bpd by the end of the year 2000, up from the current estimate of 470,000
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Rigs Drilling in Deepwater Gulf Reaches Record High
- The number of rigs drilling in deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico rose
to a record high of 40 this week
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Number of Rigs Drilling In Deepwater Gulf Reaches Record High of 42
- Number of Rigs Drilling In Deepwater Gulf Reaches Record High of
42
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USAToday |
Summer Forecast Drought
- The three-month prediction issued Thursday by the National Weather
Service's Climate Prediction Center shows above-normal temperatures all summer
in the Southeast with dry conditions through at least June.
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Two Records Are Set for Deepwater Gulf of Mexico
- number of rigs drilling in deepwater in the Gulf of
Mexico rose to a record high of 45
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Newsweek |
Gulf drilling hub also whale hangout
- The number of rigs drilling in deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico
rose to a record high of 42 during the week of April 19
- This level of deepwater
oil and gas activity illustrates the tremendous level of industry interest
in the deepwater portion of the Gulf of Mexico. Last year began with 26 rigs
working in deepwater, but that number continued to rise. By the end of the
year, there were a record 40 rigs drilling in the deep waters of the Gulf.
Now, just four months into 2001, a new record has been
set.
- Production from these deepwater wells has now surpassed production
in shallow water, despite the fact that only four percent of all producing
fields in the Gulf of Mexico are in deepwater.
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StarTrib |
Fed Panel For Offshore Drilling
- The
ban now covers 610 million acres of ocean off the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf
coasts.
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CNN |
Florida Wild Fires
- Smoke from the Mallory Swamp fire and another fire in south Georgia
were affecting the air quality in towns as far away as Savannah, Georgia,
and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina -- 250 to 300 miles to the
northeast.
- More than 2,800 fires in Florida this year
The Florida Division of Forestry reported 2,825 fires burned 254,360 acres
in the state since January 1.
- "We've been averaging statewide about 20 fires a day easily for the
last month," said Timber Weller, a Division of Forestry spokesman said.
Agencies report the fire danger as very high to extreme.
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G O M Leasing010702 N Y T
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WashPost |
Gulf Leases Start
- The Bush administration will lease 1.47 million acres of the eastern
Gulf of Mexico to oil companies, but in a nod to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush no
drilling will be allowed near that state's shoreline, the Interior Department
said Monday.
- The acreage available in the planned lease sale excludes anything
within roughly 100 to 300 miles of Florida's coastline, Interior Secretary
Gale Norton said.
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Florida Revolt
- Florida's Oil Revolt
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USAToday |
Water Wars Brew In Southeast
- No one expected it to become such a critical resource so fast in
a region long thought to have an inexhaustible supply.
- Tri-State
Water War.
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USAToday |
Tampa Record Low Rainfall
- Florida's drought, heading into its fourth
year, is on course to produce one of the driest Augusts on record in the
Tampa region.
- this past Saturday's light rain showers followed a 14-day
stretch with no precipitation, the longest area dry spell in August since
the federal government began keeping local weather data back in 1890
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Thirty-six rainless days pour on the problems
- Richmond has apparently set a record for the longest run of rainless
days in more than a century of official weather history.
- Much of Virginia is in a climatological drought, the Baltimore-Washington
Weather Forecast Office said. A climatological drought occurs when precipitation
during a six-month period is 15 percent or more below normal.
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Warm East Coast
- Warm weather chills holiday spirit
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Drought N Y
- he warm, dry winter has left the reservoirs that supply water to
New York City only half as full as they usually are at this time of
yea
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Drought N E
- Through the dry, cold nights and almost
balmy winter days, across snowless mountains and under desert-blue skies,
a record-setting drought has settled over the New York region and much of
the East Coas
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Dryness East Coast
- Arid, Arid, All Around, And Nature's Out of Sync
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NYT |
Maine Stoic In Drought
- They flush their toilets once a day. Unable to use washing machines
in their homes for the past five months, they wait in long lines at coin-operated
laundries. For supper, they usually eat sandwiches off paper plates. If they
want a proper meal the kind that requires washing a lot of dishes
they drive to a restaurant
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Va Emissions C O2 Up
- Carbon dioxide emissions up
- Report: Va. had 9th highest rise
- Carbon dioxide emissions from old, coal-burning power plants in Virginia
increased by more than a third from 1995 to 2000
- Carbon dioxide emissions from the plants jumped from 28.8 million
tons to 39.5 million tons
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WashPost |
Water Wells Digging
- Finding water these days in parched central Maryland isn't easy.
Months into one of the worst droughts in recent memory, and with the spring
"leaf out" heralding hot weather and worsening conditions, the hunt for water
is harsh and urgent.
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Va Rivers Record Lows
- Held in the hard grasp of drought, Virginia rivers are setting records
for low flows.
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NYT |
Mexico4th Largest Oil Producer
- Mexico, the world's
fourth-largest oil producer, plans to increase its crude oil output by about
13 percent next year, to around 3.65 million barrels a day, according to
a presidential report submitted to Congress today.
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USAToday |
Virga Dry Air Precip
- Virga Dry Air Precip*
- Dry air causes invisible rain
- Rain or snow that evaporates as it falls into a layer of dry air
near the earths surface is called virga. While virga can happen at
any time during the year, it is most common during winter, when low-level
air is very dry. As falling precipitation evaporates it moistens the dry
air from the top down. If the precipitation lasts, the air becomes moist
enough to block evaporation and the rain or snow reaches the ground.
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U Va Drought Shutdown
- With Charlottesville reservoirs threatening to dry up in just 88
days, some students at the University of Virginia have entertained thoughts
of Christmas break starting around Thanksgiving.
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Power Hydro Threat Drought
- dropping water
levels in Lake Anna, which supplies cooling water to the company's North
Anna nuclear power station, had become a concern.
- But the drought threatens other power plants as well. Virginia Power
is already unable to make electricity at Lake Gaston and Roanoke Rapids,
N.C., be cause of low water flows on the Roanoke River.
- the plant's emergency plan calls for the
nuclear units to be shut down to avoid excessive vibration of its water
pumps.
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More Oil G O M
- offshore mineral resources, recently increased its estimates of reserves
of "deep shelf" natural gas by 175 percent.
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USAToday |
Southeast Drought Again
- Less than two years after recovering from drought, the Southeast
is drying out again
- Wildfire is an early consequence.
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NYT |
Big Oil Find Is Reported Deep in Gulf
- The United States has reserves of 29 billion barrels
- And given that the United States uses 20.5 million barrels of crude
oil a day
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