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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
What sort of jackass government licensing board thinks it is safer to drill two miles down, and then 8 miles horizontally than just positioning the rig directly over the oil?!?! I mean, if you are going to let them drill, let them drill directly for it - the safest possible way! If they can't prove they can repair a leak in < 24 hours at the proposed drilling depth, then the answer is "No." Watch how fast R & D spins up a solution, then!
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I think the companies want to minimize the number of oil rigs. At least that was their argument for drilling in ANWR was that they would only have a few building on the surface, but drill far away using horizontal techniques.
And I think we have been drilling shallow waters for decades, the oil is probably gone by now. Or it was never there in the first place.