Gas Price Manipulation
And Gull Island Oil
By Joel Skousen
World Affairs Brief
5-18-8
It's well and good that Congress vote to stop filling the US Strategic Oil reserve because the US already
has billions of barrels in the ground in Alaska--entire oil fields capped and drilled, but kept off the
market. The filling of the Strategic Petroleum reserve is merely one more attempt to keep fuel in short supply.
I will be blunt. There is a conspiracy to raise fuel prices and it is pernicious. No one is targeting the
collusion we see daily between the oil companies.
Fred Cederholm in a Baltimore Blog noted these careful observations during the latest and suspicious
run up in gas prices too rapid and too well coordinated to be a result of natural market demands.
"It must have been some pricing strategy by all of the fuel retailers because the spike [of 13 cents
a gallon] occurred everywhere, regardless of the company or the brand, at almost the same moment [within 2
hours]
I had already been on-line checking world-wide news and developments when a friend and neighbor
stopped at the house to tell me I had better fill up immediately because a price jump was coming.
I logged off and topped off my gas supplies for all of my fuel thirsty vehicles and gizmos.
I then went back on-line to find out why the spike occurred. I found not one single development,
catastrophe, or explanation. I found nothing to justify the jump!" Later, the media will always
be fed some event used to justify the increase, just like their servile explanations that "the stock
market rose today due to some company performing better than expected." Nonsense.
PUBLIC NEEDS TO DEMAND OPENING OF THE GULL ISLAND OIL FIELD
I have long maintained that the US government is purposely keeping US oil discoveries off the market in order
to allow insider oil companies to drive up prices and save US supplies for the next war. Evidence continues
to confirm that charge. A massive oil/natural gas field exists under Gull Island, located in the waters of Prudhoe Bay in Alaska, according to Lindsay Williams. Williams was an Alaska oil field Chaplain who was so successful at boosting moral during the building of the Alaskan pipeline that he was given special access to many high level meetings at the Atlantic Richfield company. At one of those meetings, he witnessed, first hand, discussions confirming a successful find of a massive new oil field near Prudoe Bay in Alaska--at Gull Island the day before the meeting.
A few days later, the chief operating officer of Atlantic Richfield for Alaska, Ken Fromm, who had invited
Williams to the meeting, called him and told him he must never mention this new discovery--that the
US government had classified it and was ordering it capped. It is still being held off the market and
is not part of the environmental lock-down of oil in the Arctic National Wilderness. Williams was given
a British Petroleum memoranda [probably by Fromm] which related the statements of upper echelon oil
officials from Arco which said that Gull Island would be kept under wraps, limiting domestic supplies
so Americans would someday see prices hit up to $10 a gallon at the pump.
Lindsey Williams decided to violate that informal ban and publish a book, The Energy Non-Crisis, about
the scandal. Ken Fromm was finally fired by Atlantic Richfield for allowing Williams in on the meeting
and for helping correct technical details in Williams' book. He told Williams that the Powers
That Be were making sure his book would be suppressed and would not get any establishment media coverage.
"Gull Island just proved what the oil companies have believed for some time.
It authenticated the seismographic findings. Seismographic testing has indicated that there is as much
crude oil on the North Slope of Alaska as in Saudi Arabia. Since the Gull Island find proved to be
seismographically correct, then the other testings are correct also. There are many hundreds of
square miles of oil under the North Slope of Alaska.
"To clarify what I am about to say, let me first re-emphasize that the government permitted the
oil companies to drill and prove many sites (subsequently making them cap the wells and keep the
proof of the finds secret), but they do not allow them to produce from the wells. This is why
I have referred (below) to a number of wells having been drilled (after I left the North Slope).
The only production permitted is from the small area of the North Slope.
"Gull Island is located five miles off shore from Prudhoe Bay. It is in the Beaufort Sea.
The chemical structure of the oil at Gull Island is different from that of the oil in the
Prudhoe Bay field and the pressure of the field is different, proving that it is a totally
different pool of oil from that at Prudhoe Bay... Three wells have been drilled, proven,
and capped at Gull Island. The East Dock well also hit the Gull Island oil pool (you can
tell by the chemical structure). For forty miles to the east of Gull Island, there has not
been a single dry hole drilled, although many wells have been drilled. This shows the
immensity of the size of the field.
"Only recently, just west of Gull Island, the Kuparuk oil field has been drilled. Again,
this is a totally separate pool of oil from either the Prudhoe Bay field or the Gull Island field.
The chemical make up of the field and the pressure of the field is different from the others, proving it to be a totally separate pool of oil. In an entirely different area of the North Slope than the 100-square-mile area of the Prudhoe Bay field, the Kuparuk field is approximately 60 miles long by 30 miles wide and contains approximately the same amount of oil as the Prudhoe Bay field.
"From 1973 through 1980 we were being told continually that America was in the midst of a major energy crisis,
yet no oil production was allowed from the Kuparuk field. It wasn't until 1981 that permission was finally granted for production. Why the delay--if there really was a crisis? The reason Mr. X made the statement that there is as much crude oil on the North Slope of Alaska as in all of Saudi Arabia is because the oil companies have drilled all over the North Slope and have proven there is that much oil there, but still they are only allowed to produce from the small area."
"Americans will also be shocked to know that almost all Alaskan crude is shipped overseas
(most to Japan) while America has to import most of its oil. "Possibly you have heard
it stated that the Alaskan crude oil has such a high sulphur content that it cannot be
refined by most oil refineries in the U.S. We are being told that this is the reason why the
Alaskan oil is not helping to solve America's energy crisis. This is also the excuse that
is being used for shipping Alaskan crude oil to other countries. It has also been reported
that major power companies are even telling this to their customers, using it to justify
their need for rate increases....[However] An August 11, 1980, analysis of the Prudhoe
Bay crude oil, which is flowing in the Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline, reads as follows:
Sulphur content - 0.9% The sulphur content of the Prudhoe Bay Alaskan oil is low in
comparison to oil from other sources in the U.S., as well as many foreign oils."
Black Gold Stranglehold
Executive Summary
Americans thought $3.00 per gallon gasoline was absurd when Craig Smith predicted the price hike
in 2004. In October 2005, Americans are paying $3.00 and higher per gallon of gas, now Americans are paying $ 4.00 a gallon, with heating oil at $ 4.65 a gallon.
But the price hike
does not stop at the gas pump. Winter heating oil is expected to cost 50% more than it did last year.
As a result, Americans are asking “how high the price of gas and oil?” Jerome Corsi and Craig Smith
argue that these prices are unnecessary and the oil problems we face have reasonable and attainable
solutions.
In their groundbreaking book Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and The Politics of Oil,
Corsi and Smith share their belief that the “U.S. has the opportunity to help give birth to a new
generation of oil politics and economics that will eclipse in greatness what we have already
experienced.”
There is no OIL shortage, on a plot to extort more money from the Citizens of the United States of America.
Look at this entire web site and you will be amazed at how America has been Raped!
Ask Congress about "GULL ISLAND"
They will never respond, except that they have set acts in motion, that will never be voted on, but they will never explain why GULL ISLAND has been capped.
Welcome
Take the time to view this entire site.
It is well worth the effort.
Information being added each day as the News Breaks!
December 09, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil edged toward $44 a barrel on Tuesday, supported by mounting expectations that OPEC will announce further output cuts at its meeting next week.
U.S. crude was up 40 cents at $44.11 a barrel at 1506 GMT (10:06 a.m. EST), after sinking earlier to $42.89.
London Brent crude rose 15 cents to $43.57.
"Oil is on a count-down to OPEC now and everyone is expecting them to come up with something big -- probably a cut of 1-1.5 million bpd," said Rob Laughlin, senior oil analyst at brokers MF Global in London.
"If OPEC doesn't make a big cut, this market is in trouble."
Oil traders were awaiting the 1700 GMT (12 p.m. EST) release on Tuesday of the U.S. Energy Department's Short Term Energy Outlook, which was expected to show downgrades in 2009 oil demand estimates.
In a forecast issued last month, the Energy Department said total U.S. oil demand was projected to fall by an additional 250,000 bpd, or 1.3 percent next year, after dropping 1.1 million bpd, or 5.4 percent, in 2008.
Watch as OIL falls below $ 40.00, and gas falls to $ 1.50 or below.
Congress will be forced to quickly open up vast new areas for drilling, and forced to use the new clean coal, as a source of power.
Carbon credits are a joke and the "Greenies" will have lost their battle to turn the USA into a 3rd world country.
Also watch as the "Global Warming" croud start using the term "Climate Change", since Science now shows that the earth is actually COOLING.
Also watch as the term "Fosil Fuel" is replaced with a new one showing that crude does not come to "Dino".
October 26 2008
On October 06 this site stated that Crude Oil prices would fall, and today Crude is down close too $ 60.00.
Expect to see prices fall even lower, close to the $ 40.00 mark.
There is a glut of oil on the market, China has not purchased all the oil it contracted on.
OPEC will NOT stop the decline in the price.
The USA has more oil than all of OPEC.
The entire run up in oil price was nothing but a scam to screw the people of the world out of their hard earned money.
You can fool all the people some of the time, you can fool some of the people all the time, BUT YOU CAN NOT FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME.
October 06 2008
Crude Oil below $ 90.00
Expect to see it go lower!
Oil Demand is DOWN, and OIL imports to the USA are way down!
Congress lets off shore moratorium on drilling expire!
Now watch the price of crude oil and natural gas drop!
If Congress did this 20 years ago we would NOT HAVE $ 4.00 a gallon gas , and we would NOT be in the financial mess that THEY have put the United States Of America in.
The only reason Congress let the ban expire is because it is an ELECTION YEAR, and they wish to keep their phony baloney jobs.
Now the American Tax Payer is expected to foot a 700 BILLION DOLLAR bailout, that was on the horizon a year ago, and the top executives of these failed banks took multi million dollar pay check and gave themselves extra benefits, when they know their actions was and would cause the bottom to fall out of the market. Now the Secretary of the Treasury wants to give them a gift of 700 BILLION DOLLARS with no checks and balances.
You would think he was working for the International Bankers, but wait maybe he is!
Who pays the Secretary of The Treasury????????
A CRC request has been made to provide an official report on who pays the Secretary of The Treasury!
A study published in Science Magazine today presents new evidence supporting the abiotic theory for the origin of oil, which asserts oil is a natural product the Earth generates constantly rather than a "fossil fuel" derived from decaying ancient forests and dead dinosaurs.
The lead scientist on the study?
Giora Proskurowski of the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle? says the hydrogen-rich fluids venting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the Lost City Hydrothermal Field were produced by the abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons in the mantle of the earth.
The abiotic theory of the origin of oil directly challenges the conventional scientific theory that hydrocarbons are organic in nature, created by the deterioration of biological material deposited millions of years ago in sedimentary rock and converted to hydrocarbons under intense heat and pressure.
While organic theorists have posited that the material required to produce hydrocarbons in sedimentary rock came from dinosaurs and ancient forests, more recent argument have suggested living organisms as small as plankton may have been the origin.
The abiotic theory argues, in contrast, that hydrocarbons are naturally produced on a continual basis throughout the solar system, including within the mantle of the earth. The advocates believe the oil seeps up through bedrock cracks to deposit in sedimentary rock. Traditional petro-geologists, they say, have confused the rock as the originator rather than the depository of the hydrocarbons.
The Lost City is a hypothermal field some 2,100 feet below sea level that sits along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at the center of the Atlantic Ocean, noted for strange 90 to 200 foot white towers on the sea bottom.
In 2003 and again in 2005, Proskurowski and his team descended in a scientific submarine to collect liquid bubbling up from Lost City sea vents.
Proskurowski found hydrocarbons containing carbon-13 isotopes that appeared to be formed from the mantle of the Earth, rather than from biological material settled on the ocean floor.
Carbon 13 is the carbon isotope scientists associate with abiotic origin, compared to Carbon 12 that scientists typically associate with biological origin.
Proskurowski argued that the hydrocarbons found in the natural hydrothermal fluids coming out of the Lost City sea vents is attributable to abiotic production by Fischer-Tropsch, or FTT, reactions.
The Fischer-Tropsch equations were first developed by Nazi scientists who created methodologies for producing synthetic oil from coal.
"Our findings illustrate that the abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons in nature may occur in the presence of ultramafic rocks, water and moderate amounts of heat," Proskurowski wrote.
The study also confirmed a major argument of Cornell University physicist Thomas Gold, who argued in his book "The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels" that micro-organisms found in oil might have come from the mantle of the earth where, absent photosynthesis, the micro-organisms feed on hydrocarbons arising from the earth's mantle in the dark depths of the ocean floors.
Affirming this point, Proskurowski concluded the article by noting, "Hydrocarbon production by FTT could be a common means for producing precursors of life-essential building blocks in ocean-floor environments or wherever warm ultramafic rocks are in contact with water."
Finding abiotic hydrocarbons in the Lost City sea vent fluids is the second discovery in recent years adding weight to the abiotic theory of the origin of oil.
As WND reported in 2005, a NASA probe to Titan, the giant moon of Saturn, discovered abundant Carbon-13 methane that the agency declared to be abiotic in origin.
Bekken Formation
• billions of energy dollars in North Dakota and Montana on the Bekken Formation
USGS’s April 2008 report..
Montana, the new Middle East
In 1999, Dr. Leigh Price, a United States Geological Survey (USGS) geochemist, wrote a draft of his survey of the Bekken Formation, which covers areas of Montana, North Dakota and stretches into Canada.
Unfortunately, a few months after he wrote his rough draft, Dr. Price passed away and his report was left alone. It never received a complete scientific peer review from the USGS.
The Bekken Formation takes up about 25,000 square miles, stretching from Montana to Canada. Oil was discovered on the Bekken in 1951.
But back in 1951, no one knew the region’s potential. Now we do. Today, we have the science and technology to go where no man has gone before. Survey estimates are more accurate than ever. Not only can we “see” what’s under the property, technology advances, such as horizontal drilling and fracing lift recovery rates to new profitable highs as well.
Meanwhile, Dr. Price’s draft study continued to gather dust, until finally in 2006 industry experts from Canada, in collaboration with North Dakota Geological Survey and the state Oil and Gas Division, published their survey results.
Dr. Price’s numbers were deemed quite accurate.
Up to 503 billion barrels of potential oil reserves are in place in the Bekken Formation. Finally, the USGS, in its April 2008 report, tells us Western Standard Energy’s sitting on an area holding... “... the largest USGS assessment in the lower 48 states and the largest continuous oil accumulation ever assessed by the agency.”
The United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) tells us...“... with new drilling and completion technology taken into account, the resource base for the entire formation is potentially much larger.
And the US Department of Energy says... “This could increase crude oil in America by billions of barrels.”
The USGS’s April 2008 report also reveals that the Bekken holds about 3 trillion cubic feet (cft) of precious natural gas. Right here in the USA, and in Canada.
A closer look at the USGS 2008 report tells us there are.“... 6,192 billion (that’s 6.19 trillion) cubic feet of shallow biogenic (continuous) undiscovered gas in the North-Central Montana Province.”
Notice the report specified “shallow.”
The big shots in Montana didn’t even know of the vast resources (and revenue) right under their feet. Terry Johnson, Montana Legislation’s financial analyst, broke the news. “When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their jaws hit the floor. They had no idea.” Obviously, word of “the Bekken” treasure quickly spread.
“One of the largest oil finds in the history of the US” -- New York Times
“This sizeable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field format in the past 58 years”
-- Pittsburgh Post Gazette “There may be more oil under Montana and North Dakota ranch land than under all of Alaska”
-- Investors Business Daily, Dr. Paul Polzin, University of Montana economist, summed up all the excitement nicely when he said...“It’s a good old fashioned oil boom” And then Brian Hicks, author and guest of CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, CNN, and Fox Business put the excitement into perspective...“And because this is light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 per barrel.”
Initial drilling at Starbuck in Montana took place late 2007. The exploration gas well was drilled to a depth of 1,126 feet. Computer screens were lit with more data than the 1951 oilmen knew existed. Data was scientifically analyzed and now the results are in and...The Bekken Formation is no secret in the oil and gas industry. By all accounts, the region provides the largest and most intriguing oil and gas opportunities in America’s rich history of energy exploration and development.
Look who’s now playing in the Bekken:
• $129.73 billion Conoco Phillips
• $51.72 billion Devon Energy
• $34.4 billion Marathon Oil
• $15.2 billion Noble Energy
• $7.28 billion Enerplus
• $5.17 billion MDU
• $417.9 million Brigham Exploration
• $293.02 million Northern Oil & Gas
Gull Island Alaska Oil: Hoax or Government Scandal?
Published by Michael Yost(c)2008
Click on this link for more hard hitting information from Michael Yost.
Lindsey Williams has apparently gone into hiding as more and more Americans are asking questions about the Gull Island Alaska oil discovery. It’s either the greatest scandal ever perpetrated or a hoax. No one is refuting the evidence.
For those of you who have no clue who Lindsey Williams is, he wrote an interesting book “The Energy Non-Crisis”. He makes claim that the energy crisis of the 70’s was a total fabrication by the government and the oil companies have found oil at Gull Island, Alaska and were ordered to cap the wells. The book is no longer in print, however the entire book is available online at the reformation.org website. It is an interesting read and is totally in layman’s terms. It does exhibit Mr. Williams limited understanding of the oil business, yet it does let you know that he was really in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska during the building of the pipeline. He reveals much from the inside walls of executives with Atlantic Richfield and British Petroleum (ARCO and BP) during the finding of oil on Gull Island.
What I am finding funny about Mr. Williams claims is that there is no real effort to refute his claims. No one is calling him a crackpot nor making any effort to deny his allegations with any facts that would indicate that he is not being truthful. That, in and of itself makes it fairly evident that his book is relatively factual and relates truth as he envisioned it to be during the time. It has been reported that his life has been threatened and his website, lwoil.com contains this farewell:
Dear friends,
After 30 years of telling my story and speaking out on various issues that affect America and the World, the time has come for it to end. Due to my age, concern for my family and being called back to the mission field, I feel I must discontinue my incredibly difficult schedule and remove the expenses associated with the books, speaking engagements and DVD’s.
I appreciate everyone’s support, prayers and kindness shown to me over the past 30 years and sincerely pray that God blesses and keeps you during the years ahead.
God Bless,
Lindsey Williams
So with that said, let’s put some things into perspective. I can honestly say that his book, and his website farewell offer some interesting food for thought. Let’s assume that Mr. Williams book is totally factual (yes, that is dangerous ground and I know it) and that indeed his life has been threatened. It would make sense in silencing him at the point when his prediction about the price of gas reaching $5-10 a gallon has come true, and the prices are climbing. It leads one to speculate that one of several scenario’s exist;
The oil companies realized that the Prudhoe Bay field would yield oil for 20 plus years and had the wells capped in anticipation of existing wells peaking in production.
There is a real effort on the part of our Government to conceal the discovery of the Gull Island oil and has some other agenda that has not been revealed.
None of these scenarios have been explored as to which may be true. What has been proven is that there is more oil in Alaska than we can possibly imagine and the the government of this nation has blocked its production for decades. To prove out an oil discovery such as Gull Island means that the government would be forced to reveal all it knows about the real oil reserves in this nation, offshore, and reveal what other oil wells have possibly been capped to production. Yes, it is pure speculation, but consider some known facts and how they could possibly play out.
Gull Island was discovered during the Carter Administration. He was pushing hard for his Energy plan with the Windfall Profits tax being a center piece of that plan. The energy crisis of that time has been proven to have been contrived in an effort to bring energy to the forefront of discussion by all Americans. When Carter promised reductions in energy prices with his WPT, passage was easy. Needless to say, that was the very reason this nation now imports over 70% of our oil today. Had a Gull Island discovery been announced, then the energy crisis would have been resolved. You can make the connection that the Carter Administration wouldn’t have fared very well in getting acceptance of a comprehensive energy policy. Ordering Gull Island capped would seem logical and probably prove-able.
The second scenario leads one to think that this new oil discovery would have caused the price of oil to decrease and perhaps reduced the dependence on Saudi Oil. Iran was a hotbed and the entire middle east was in somewhat of a turmoil. Now the oil companies were being forced to purchase middle east oil to avoid the WPT and it would make sense that to appease that region with American dollars could solve two problems. The oil companies could have very well capped those wells and waited out the resolution of the middle east issue. Doing so would help with the multitude of government red-tape as the oil companies were finally making a profit. Doing their part, at government urging, goes a long way when you need the government to look the other way or issue a permit when needed. It would make life a bit more bearable for the oil companies, and hopefully more profitable at a later date should the middle east crisis not be resolved.
The third scenario is one that causes many of the conspiracy theories to arise. I really have trouble finding real credibility as most are simply speculation based on incomplete information or a section of a document that leads to innuendo. I do believe that somewhere in these three possibilities, there lies a lot of truth that needs to be revealed. Unless someone comes forward, who was in a knowledgeable position at the time, then more of the conspiracy ideas will run rampant. I would urge anyone to resist that temptation without solid facts that can be verified.
Should Congress investigate these allegations? Perhaps, but what really needs to happen is for someone who was there, saw the discovery, was part of the analysis of the crude oil, and/or was directly responsible for capping the well(s), to come forth with the entire story. I do know this: a Congressional Subpoena carries a lot of weight and few who are in possession of that knowledge would welcome one. I have no doubt that someone in government also knows the facts and to get to the heart of those facts will never occur unless they too, reveal what has happened.
I would fully welcome the opportunity to either affirm or deny flatly the allegations of this book. I offer that given the opportunity to hear what someone knows about Gull Island would be treated in utmost confidentiality. No names would be used unless permission is given to do so. I would also welcome the opportunity to speak with Lindsey Williams, however no contact information remains on his website.
I can only hope that someone, somewhere reads this that knows the truth. I was always told that the truth would stand when all else failed. It’s time to get to the heart of this issue and resolve it once and for all. More importantly, take a moment and tell others. Use the “ShareThis” link below and Digg it, Facebook it, or use whatever sharing site you want to get this message out. Email it too if you like. Hopefully, someone, somewhere, someplace, the person who knows the truth will read this and will come forward and allow his or her story to be told.
OIL: LOOK TO MONTANA
By ROBERT HADDICK
June 8, 2008
The Bakken formation in eastern Montana and western North Dakota has been a minor producer of crude oil for more than a half century. But with the arrival of technologies such as improved horizontal drilling, it could be transformed from an inconsequential dud into perhaps the largest oil field on the planet.
How large? In an unpublished research paper he wrote while working as a geochemist at the US Geological Survey, Leigh Price (who died in 2000) calculated a mean estimate of recoverable oil from Bakken at a stupendous 413 billion barrels. This compares to Saudi Arabia's proven reserves of 267 billion barrels.
Price's report did not receive a complete peer review and was not published as an official USGS study. As it happens, in April the USGS did publish an official estimate of Bakken's potential. Based on recent exploratory efforts and current recovery technology, the current USGS mean estimate of recoverable oil from the Bakken formation is 3.65 billion barrels, less than 1% of Price's estimate from nearly a decade ago.
Isn't this USGS report a severe letdown? Perhaps not. The USGS last studied the Bakken formation in 1995. Using recovery technology in existence at that time, the USGS estimated Bakken's potential at a mere 151 million barrels. With such low potential and crude oil prices relatively depressed at that time, it is easy to understand why Bakken was ignored.
The combination of data from new test wells and new recovery technology has caused the USGS to expand its estimate of Bakken's potential by 25 times between 1995 and 2008. In its April report on Bakken, the USGS admitted that it has collected only very limited data from assessment areas surrounding the center of the Bakken formation. There is a potential here for upside revisions as more test wells are drilled.
More importantly, Bakken's expansion has been tied almost completely to improvements in drilling and recovery technology. Absent a breathtaking plunge in global crude oil prices, it is reasonable to assume that horizontal drilling and water-fractionation recovery techniques will continue to advance in the years ahead, making even more of Bakken's crude oil recoverable. Another 10-20 fold upgrade of Bakken's potential would make it a peer of Saudi Arabia's Ghawar field, currently the world's largest.
Long ignored, the Bakken formation is now the hottest development in US domestic oil exploration. Will it be the next Saudi Arabia? That remains hard to say. But it would take a tremendous oil price crash to prevent Bakken from being a significant development.
Reply from USGS
Thank you for the follow-up email and interest in the USGS.
We have received several inquiries lately regarding Gull Island, and I helped piece together publicly available information to respond to these inquiries. The verbiage in the summary is condensed from what is available at the included links (USGS and Alaska DNR geologists conferred to help condense this information into a more succinct package).
Also, to provide additional context for the summary, below ia a link to maps from an online presentation by the Alaska Dept of Natural Resources - Division of Oil and Gas. The maps given in this online presentation show the location and approximate extent of the West Beach, Niakuk, Pt. McIntyre and North Prudhoe oil pools referred to in the summary:
Because this is publicly available information and the inquiries received were informal contacts, there is no report number given to this summary.
July 07 2008
NEWS RELEASE-----NEWS RELEASE
The Dustin Dome Gas Fields
3 Trillion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas
Congress REFUSES to Allow its release.
By: John Bender
The real problem of the artificially high price of oil and everything made from it or shipped is that our liberal politicians will not allow companies to tap into most of our own oil. Both Democrats and liberal Republicans are at fault. The Destin Dome is just one glaring example of liberal politics trumping both our national security and national economic interests.
The Destin Dome lies 25 miles south of Pensacola, Florida. It contains more than three trillion cubic feet of much needed dry natural gas. Chevron acquired leases at Destin Dome in 1984 during the Reagan administration. But Reagan was out of office before the field could be developed and Bush the Elder came to power. Bush the Elder imposed an ill-conceived moratorium on leasing oil and gas fields off most of the Florida coast.
The initial hydrocarbon discovery on the structure occurred in 1987 on Chevron’s Block 56 lease holding. In accordance with the Coastal Zone Management Act, Chevron submitted an exploration plan to both the U.S. Minerals Management Service and the state of Florida, seeking approval to proceed with drilling operations. Bush the Elder came to power while the application was pending and the Bush Commerce Department sat on the application waiting for Florida to act.
The plan was rejected by Florida political hacks, but the denial was overruled by the U.S. Commerce Department. After delineating the lease, Chevron again submitted a development plan in 1996 and Florida again moved to block them from harvesting the much needed natural gas. Once again Chevron was forced to appeal to what was now the Clinton Commerce Dept. The Clinton administration blocked any ruling by creating a catch 22. Not only did the companies need Commerce to again overrule Florida, they also needed clean air permits from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) before drilling could begin. In 1999, the Clinton Commerce Department refused to rule on the appeal until the Clinton EPA acted first. The Clinton EPA refused to act until Commerce ruled. By setting up this shell game the Clinton administration left the matter to languish in bureaucratic hell, and the much needed natural gas untapped.
Finally disgusted with the Bush and Clinton administrations’ failure to honor their contract, Chevron and partners filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government for denying the companies “timely and fair review” of plans and permits and an appeal concerned with the Destin Dome 56 Unit On July 24, 2000. The Clinton administration lawyers dragged their feet on the suit and it outlived the administration.
Bush the Younger came to power in January of 2001 and instead of honoring the contract and harvesting the much needed natural gas, dragged the suit out running up the oil companies’ legal expenses and denying the American people the much needed domestically produced energy. In 2002 as the gas and oil prices were raising drastically, Bush proposed buying back the leases instead of tapping the much needed domestic energy source.
The oil companies had had enough. There was no way they could continue to fight. The government didn’t care what the suit cost because they have unlimited tax dollars to spend to fight against the interests of the American people. The oil companies settled and enough domestic natural gas to heat every home in Florida for 16 to 20 years is now permanently blocked from getting to the American people.
Reacting to the news of the settlement, R. Skip Horvath, president of the Natural Gas Supply Association, said; “The Destin Dome was one of the largest fields in the Gulf of Mexico. We cannot continue to chisel away at America’s own resources and expect to continue to be self-sufficient in filling future demand. National energy supply has certainly been handed a setback.”
But the Destin Dome fiasco isn’t the only case where liberal hacks blocked the domestic production of oil and gas reserves. Huge reserves off the coast of North Carolina’s outer Banks are also denied to Americans. Other large reserves are also languishing untapped as Americans ship billions of dollars to despots and corrupt regimes around the world.
The truth is, the United States is awash in domestic oil and natural gas.
The Baken Oil Formation that covers North Dakota, as well as parts of South Dakota, and Montana, contains at least as much oil as there is in Saudi Arabia. Other fields off both coasts and in Alaska as well as in our territorial waters in the Gulf of Mexico would also be available if the liberal hacks would let us develop them. Our domestic oil reserves are so great we would not need to import one drop of oil if our politicians would stand up to the leftists and allow our companies to develop the fields.
We are also the Saudi Arabia of coal. Our domestic coal reserves would last 500 years at the currently projected need for this energy source. But instead of maximizing the use of this vast domestic energy resource, our politicians throw roadblock after roadblock in front of energy companies forcing them to use overpriced imported oil instead.
When you fill your gas tank or pay your electric bill you can thank the liberals we’ve put in office for the price you’re paying. As your food bill raises and the cost of air travel soars, as the cost of just about everything rises faster than your income, you can thank the liberal politicians and the people who voted for them. There is no energy crisis. There is a political crisis, and it’s getting worse rather than better.
Of course, the dinosaur media will not tell you any of this. Nor will the liberals who are firmly in charge of both major parties. Nor will the talk radio shills tell you any of this unless the people get out in front on the issue like they did on the Bush/Kennedy/McCain amnesty for criminal aliens. That’s our only hope.
The trouble is, it doesn’t look like it will happen.
The True Story
The U.S. imports 400,000 gallons of gasoline a day from other countries because the environmental movement has blocked construction of new oil refineries in the United States for almost 30 years. The U.S. had 321 refineries in 1981; the U.S. has 149 oil refineries today. Many plants operate 24 hours a day (with no down-time for maintenance) to supply the growing demand for fuel, and to comply with EPA regulations that require refineries to formulate different types of gasoline in different regions of the country at different times of the year.
The New American reports:
"In 1996, Texaco, in an internal memo, noted: 'The most critical factor facing the refining industry on the West Coast is the surplus refining capacity, and the surplus gasoline production capacity. The same situation exists for the entire U.S. refining industry. Supply significantly exceeds demand year-round. This results in very poor refinery margins, and very poor refinery financial results'
"That great pool of oil is probably as big as the Prudhoe oil field . . . but government has ordered us not to produce that well, or reveal any information as to what is at Gull Island." "Three wells have been drilled, proven, and capped at Gull Island. The East Dock well also hit the Gull Island oil pool. . . . For forty miles to the east of Gull Island, there has not been a single dry hole drilled, although many wells have been drilled. This shows the immensity of the size of the field. The Gull Island oil find is even larger than the Prudhoe Bay field, which is presently producing more that two million barrels of oil every twenty-four hours." "Only recently, just west of Gull Island, the Kuparuk oil field has been drilled. . . . The chemical make up of the field and the pressure of the field is different from the others, proving it to be a totally separate pool of oil. . . the Kuparuk field is approximately 60 miles long by 30 miles wide and contains approximately the same amount of oil as the Prudhoe Bay field."[8] "If this is allowed to be produced, we can build another pipeline, and in another year's time we can flood America with oil - Alaskan oil, our own oil, and we won't have to worry about the Arabs . . . if there are two pools of oil here this big, there are many, many dozens of pools of oil all over this North Slope of Alaska."
The EPA has capped producing wells, blocked efforts to drill on government land, and restricted drilling on private property.
The massive oil reserves off our East and West coasts haven't been developed, the massive oil fields under the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) and Gull Island haven't been tapped. If there is really a shortage of oil, why haven't we developed those reserves?
Edward Deatherage claims private companies can produce all the fuel we need if Congress will guarantee them $25 for a barrel of oil. Why is that important? In the past, when private companies tried to develop oil fields in the United States, the cartel dropped the oil price below the cost of production and bankrupted the competitors.
Natural gas (NG) cost $3.00 per million BTUs in the 1990s, and would have remained at that price if the EPA hadn't blocked development of gas wells, forced electric-generating companies to burn NG, exhausted the NG supply, and increased the price to $12 - $14 per million BTUs. The Wall Street Journal reports:
Thomas Gold, an astro-physicist at Cornell University, believes oil is derived from methane that contains residue of bacteria that flourish in the "Deep Hot Biosphere."
Russian oil companies followed Thomas Gold's advice, drilled hundreds of deep wells, discovered vast reserves of oil and natural gas, and have become the world’s second largest oil producer.
Joel Skousen was correct when he wrote:
"Yes, Peak Oil is coming - not so much because the supply has really peaked, but because the manipulated supply is peaking.
The U.S. is withholding vast Arctic and offshore resources in order to keep an ace in the hole for the coming war. . . . There has been a conspiracy to restrict refining capacity and buy out the little guys to cap supply - and that isn't likely to change in our lifetime. We're stuck with these powerful controlling forces, and will be - thanks to a dumbed-down electorate - until it's too late to do anything about it.
How much oil can one Dinosaur produce?????
Only 430 Barrels!
At 20 MILLION BARRELS a day in the USA that would take 49 THOUSAND DINOSAURS, sure is a lot of Dinosaurs, isn't it!!!!
The "Energy Crisis"
During the Embargo, Maine's Governor, Democrat Kenneth M. Curtis, accused the Nixon Administration of "creating a managed oil shortage to force support of its energy programs." A 1973 study by Philadelphia Inquirer reporters Donald Bartlett and James B. Steele revealed that while American oil companies were telling the U.S. to curtail oil consumption, through a massive advertising campaign, the five largest oil companies (Exxon, Mobil, Texaco, Gulf, and Standard Oil of California) were selling close to two barrels overseas for every barrel (42 gallons) of oil sold here. They accused the oil companies and the Federal government of creating the crisis.
In 1974, Lloyd's of London, the leading maritime insurance company in the world, said that during the three months before the Embargo, 474 tankers left the Middle East, with oil for the world. During the three months at the height of the crisis, 492 tankers left those same ports. During the Embargo, Atlantic Richfield (ARCO, whose President, Thornton Bradshaw was a member of the CFR) drivers were hauling excess fuel to storage facilities in the Mojave desert. All of this evidence points to the conclusion that there was no oil shortage in 1973.
Antony C. Sutton wrote in Energy:
"Our mythical energy shortage can be dismissed with a few statistics. The U.S. consumes about 71 quads (a 'quad' is one quadrillion BTU's, or 10 to the 15th power British Thermal Units) of energy per year. There is available now in the U.S., excluding solar sources and without oil and gas imports, about 151,000 quads. Consequently, we have sufficient energy resources to keep us functioning at our present rate of consumption for about 2,000 to 3,000 years– without discovering new reserves. Even at higher consumption rates there will be no problem in the next millennium."
In 1977, independent petroleum companies discovered 88% of the new oil fields, drilling on 81% of those. They have been hampered by the large corporations, referred to earlier as the Seven Sisters, who wanted to avoid adding to our national supply so they can profit from the higher prices. Carter's Department of Energy was established to perpetuate the propaganda of the existence of an energy crisis.
In 1975, an anonymous ARCO official told Hugh M. Chance, a former State Senator from Colorado, that the Government had allowed only one pool of oil in a 100 square mile area on Alaska's North Slope to be developed, even though the entire area north of Brooks Range has so much oil, that if it were drilled, "in five years the United States could be totally energy free, and totally independent from the rest of the world as far as energy is concerned." The Prudhoe Bay oil field is one of the richest oil fields on earth, able to produce an oil flow for at least 20 years, without the need of a pump; and a natural gas supply which could supply the entire country for 200 years. However, the Government wouldn't allow it to be pumped out, and it is funneled back into the ground. The Gull Island field had a different chemical structure, as did the Kuparuk oil field, west of there, which meant that the three different chemical compositions indicated the existence of separate pools of oil on the North Slope in an area of 50,000 square miles. Needless to say, this seems to be an almost unlimited supply of domestic oil.
Another ARCO official told Lindsey Williams, a chaplain for the work camps on the Trans-Alaska Oil pipeline, that "there will never be an energy crisis (because) we have as much oil here as in all Saudi Arabia." Williams had witnessed a huge oil discovery at Gull Island (5 miles north of Prudhoe Bay in the Beaufort Sea) that could have produced so much oil, that the official said that another pipeline could be built "and in another year's time we can flood America with oil- Alaskan oil ... and we won't have to worry about the Arabs." However, a few days after the find, the Federal Government ordered the documents and technical reports locked up, the well capped, and the rig withdrawn. Their excuse was that an oil spill in that part of the Arctic Ocean would kill various micro-organisms. Williams felt that the U.S. Government was deliberately creating an oil crisis, and delaying the flow of oil, in order to bankrupt the oil companies, which would lead to the nationalization of oil and gas.
William Brown, Director of Technological Studies at the Hudson Institute, said: "The President (Carter) said there is no chance of us becoming independent in our oil supplies. That is just wrong. We have at least 100 years of petroleum resources in this country." In 1976, proven resources were set at 37 billion barrels and the estimated recoverable resources were set at 150 billion barrels. This is about a 50-year supply at current usage levels. The American Petroleum Institute said in their 1977 Annual report, that recoverable crude was set at 30.9 billion barrels, and with today's technology, the amount of recoverable crude was 303.5 billion barrels, which is about an 80-year supply. The 1968 U.S. Geological Survey reported that the crude oil potential of the Atlantic Ocean continental shelf area is 224 billion barrels, the Gulf of Mexico has 575 billion barrels, the Pacific Coast has 275 billion barrels, and Alaska has 502 billion barrels, which is a grand total of 1,576 billion barrels. Only about 2% of these areas have been leased, which at the time of the report, had yielded 615 million barrels of oil, and 3.8 TCF (trillion cubic feet) of natural gas yearly.
The Wall Street Journal said that we possessed "1001 years of natural gas." Only about 2% of the Outer Continental Shelf has been leased, even though it may contain over half of our potential natural gas reserves. Along the Atlantic Coast, there is a potential of 67 TCF of gas, yet only about a dozen wells had been drilled in those areas. The Potential Gas Committee said in 1972, that we had 1412 TCF in reserve; in 1973, Mobil said we had 758 TCF; Exxon said we had 660-1380 TCF; the U.S. Geological Survey reported in 1974, that we had 761-1094 TCF in reserve; the National Academy of Sciences said in 1974, that we had 885 TCF; and there were other reports which indicated that we had over 700 TCF. These sources did not include the unconventional sources of coalbeds, shale formations, "tight sand" formations, and deep underground water areas.
From conventional sources, our known reserves were estimated to be about 237 TCF, and underground reserves were estimated to be about 530 TCF. An analysis of unconventional resources indicated the following yield: tight sand (600 TCF), coal (250 TCF), shale (500 TCF), underground water zones in the Gulf (200 TCF), and synthetic gas from peat (1443 TCF). This all adds up to a total of 3,800 TCF of natural gas, and with the U.S. using an average of 21 TCF a year, that would be enough to provide us with another 100 years worth of energy. That doesn't take into account the synthetic gas obtainable from growing marine bio-mass, such as the California Giant Kelp (Macrocystis Pyrifera), which grows two feet per day, and could be a renewable source for the production of synthetic gas.
It is also estimated that the United States could have up to half of the world's known recoverable coal reserves, which could be about 200 billion tons -- 45 billion of which is near the surface. At the time of this report, maximum production up to 1985 would have only used 10% of this reserve, even if no new reserves were discovered. In 1979, Herbert Foster, Vice-President of the National Coal Association, said: "America has three trillion tons of coal out there, ready to be mined ... all we produced last year was 590 million tons. That's only one pound of coal for every 2-1/2 tons still in the ground. The U.S. Geological Survey has estimated our coal reserves will last us well into the next century." One reason coal development has been held up, is that 40% of all reserves are on land owned by the Federal Government, and environmentally-minded citizens.
The book The Next 200 Years by Herman Kahn and the Hudson Institute said: "Allowing for the growth of energy demand ... we conclude that the proven reserves of these five major fossil fuels (oil, natural gas, coal, shale, and tar sands) alone could provide the world's total energy requirements for about 100 years, and only one-fifth of the estimated potential reserves sources could provide for more than 200 years of the projected energy needs." The Hudson Institute said in 1974: "There is no shortage of energy fuels." Antony Sutton wrote: "The energy 'crisis' is a phony, a rip-off, a political con game designed to perpetuate a 'crisis' that can be 'managed' for political power purposes."
Conservative estimates indicate that we have 100 years of energy sources available, while evidence of other undeveloped finds show that we have adequate reserves that would last long beyond that. The Illuminati has a firm grip on the oil supply, and after their 'test' in 1973, its obvious that oil will be used as a weapon of control. One can only wonder what would happen to this country if a large-scale oil crisis occurred [or was created]. Needless to say, it would be a disaster of unbelievable proportions that most likely would cause an economic collapse. Law and order would not exist in this scenario, as the population would fight among themselves for the limited resources that would be available, thus making the perfect situation for a World Government to step in.
Mega-Mergers in the Oil Industry
Energy Information
I want to relate to you some facts concerning various suppressed energy devices and the difficulty in informing the public of these devices. I hope that you can add some additional information.
On October 1, 1990, I began to keep a list of people contacted concerning energy devices. The list is now 51 pages long. The list includes the President and vice-president; 121 Members of Congress and other politicians; 21 government and state agencies; 215 members of the print and electronic media; 62 environmental groups; The President of United Auto Workers and 14 other UAW officials; The President of The American Automobile Association; many members of the clergy, including Mr. Pat Robertson, Christian Science Monitor; and numerous other "public interest" groups. Most of the people contacted do not respond to communications.
My own Congressman, Representative Frank Wolf, will not respond to a letter and 182 pages of documentation that I put in his hand on August 25, 1993. I wonder just who he does respond to? Could it be that money talks?
Note: In several of the following references information is followed by a (?) symbol, or a statement that the original material was stolen from me in 1986. This is because in those cases I am working from very poor copies of the original material. In 1986, I was visited by an intern reporter for the Washington Times who wanted to take my material back to the paper to make copies. What he did was steal my material and take it back to college with him. Had it not been for an Editor at the Washington Times, and the Dean at this intern's school, I would have lost a lot of my collection of energy material.
Here are the facts. Please verify this information for yourself. My comments are identified as [Comment: ].
1. Some folks at Shell Oil Co. wrote "Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine" (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors, he, in 1929, predicted 80 MPG by 1939. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements: 49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in 1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with a 1959 Opel in 1973. [Comment: The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after a professor informed me that it was used as an engineering text at the University of West Virginia.]
2. The book "Secrets of the 200 MPG Carburetor" is by Allan Wallace and was available, about 198(?), from Premier Distributing, 1775 Broadway, NY, NY, 10019. Page 18 has photocopies of three 1936 tests by the Ford Motor Co. (Canada) of the Pogue carburetor (U.S. Patent # 2,026,798). The worst case test achieved about 171 MP(US)G. [Comment: I can not provide any other publishing information because the book is among the material stolen from me in 1986. My copy of page 18 is very poor.] (click for U. S. Patent Office search engine)
>p>3. Argosy Magazine, August 1977, has a five page article about Tom Ogle and the media witnessed test of the "Oglemobile". Tom Ogle, on that test run, achieved more than 100 MPG in a 4,600 pound 1970 Ford Galaxie. [Comment: When I attempted to find a copy of that Argosy Magazine, it was missing from LOC files in 1980. Argosy ceased publication, I was informed, a short time after the Ogle article was published. I could not find a copy of that Argosy issue at any library within 200 miles of my home. An Editor at the company that purchased Argosy, found and mailed a copy to me. While attempting to verify statements in the article, I spoke with Doug Lenzini(SP?) with the EL Paso Times. Mr.Lenzini informed me that he knew Tom Ogle, and the Oglemobile achieved more than 200 MPG. When I contacted the El Paso NBC affiliate that filmed the test run described in the Argosy article, I was informed that the person who had filmed the test had left the station and taken all the records with him.]
A. The Ogle U.S. Patent, #4,177,779, has this statement "I have been able to obtain extremely high gas mileages with the system of the present invention installed on a V-8 engine of a conventional 1971 American made automobile. In fact, mileage rates in excess of one hundred miles per gallon have been achieved with the present invention." According to the Argosy article, a Shell Oil Co. representative asked Ogle what he would do if someone offered him $25 Million for the system. Ogle responded "I would not be interested" He later said, "I've always wanted to be rich, and I suspect I will be when this system gets into distribution. But I'm not going to have my system bought up and put on the shelf. I'm going to see this thing through--that I promise." According to an article in The Washington Post Parade Magazine, March 4, 1984, Tom Ogle died of a drug and alcohol overdose in 1981. Other articles concerning Tom Ogle can be found in the El Paso Journal, January 16, 1980, and also, The Hamilton Spectator, June 24, 1978.
B. The Oglemobile, in simplification, ran on fumes extracted from a heated tank in the trunk (See the Ogle patent.) A very simple method of extracting gasoline fumes is described in a book, published in 1900, "Gas Engine Construction". This book was reprinted by Lindsay in 1986, ISBN 0-917914-46-5.
4. There are many U.S. Patents granted for vaporizing gasoline. NASA Patent 3,640,256; General Electric Co. Patent 3,926,150; Robinson Patent 4,003,969; Harpman Patent 4,023,538; ButlerPatent 4,068,636; Totten Patent 4,106,457. [Comment: Pete, "The Tree Man", was researching the Fish carburetor while staying in my home during the early 80's. He later sent me a 6 page list with more than 240 U.S. Patent numbers for vaporizing gasoline, other fuels and water.]
5. During the mid 70's, physicist Don Novak traveled all over the U.S. lecturing and teaching in his seminars how to achieve 100 MPG. He also testified, October 15, 1979, before a Wichita, KS, Congressional Committee on "Reinventing the Automobile". [Comment: I have known Don for many years. Once he brought to my home, in the late 70's, two carburetors; one got more than 200 MPG and the other more than 100 MPG. I contacted a local politician, who lives in my town, and was on the Virginia Energy Subcommittee. I tried to have this politician meet Don and see the carburetors. The politician was not interested.
6. In the London, England, Daily Telegraph, 10/20/83, on page 9, there is an advertisement for a production Pugeot Diesel that gets 52.3 MPG in urban driving. In the Washington Post, 9/19/83, page 37(?) is the 1983 U.S. EPA fuel economy list of various vehicles. The U.S. model Pugeot Diesel gets between 22 and 27 MPG. The Washington Times, 8/9/91, published an article, "Gas saving engines hit streets in fall". This article is about two engines, the Mitsubishi MVV engine, and the Honda VTEC-E. According to the company spokesmen, the Mitsubishi will get up to 50 MPG; the Honda, up to 88 MPG. [Comment: I visited a local Honda dealer and got a brochure on the production automobile with the VTEC-E engine, the specified MPG, as I recall, was 53 MPG. I know of no produced Honda that gets 88 MPG. I have no information on the production Mitsubishi MVV engine. I wonder if there is something that happens to fuel economy when an automobile is transported to the USA. Is it possible that these engines "un-tweak" themselves during transit?]
7. The U.S. Government supported (Grant No. DTNH22-91-Z-06014) a study of automobile fuel economy by the National Academy of Sciences. This study, "Automotive Fuel Economy--How Far Should We Go?" (ISBN 0-309-04530-4), was used by the staff of my then Congressman George Allen, to refute documentation proving that an automobile had exceeded 376 MPG. Nowhere in this "fuel economy study" is there any reference to the work of Shell Oil Co. or any other reference that could refute the conclusion of this report. The report concluded, Page 4, that a subcompact car might achieve between 39 and 44 MPG by model year 2006. Many committee meetings were held from May 15, 1991 to December 14, 1991, prior to the April 1992 publication of this report. Prior to publication of this report, I previously sent documentation to several participants of these meetings. The documentation proved that automobile fuel economies of between 49 and 376 MPG were achieved. None of the participants responded to my letters. Documentation was sent to: Jerry R. Curry, Administrator, National Highway Safety Administration, on 3/16/91; Senator Richard H. Bryan, on 3/7/91; Congressman Philip R. Sharp, on 2/18/91; Steve Plotkin, Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress, on 4/4/91; Charles Mendler, Energy Conservation Collation, on 11/2/90; Fred Smith, Competitive Enterprise Institute, on 4/16/91; Brian O'Neal, Center for Auto Safety, on 3/16/91; Clarence Ditlow, Executive Director, Center for Auto Safety, on 1/6/92. Previous documentation was also sent to members of organizations participating in these meetings, they are: John Koenig, Product planning Manager, Toyota Motor Co., on 3/18/91; Peter Clausen, Union of Concerned Scientist, on 10/28/90; John Morrill, American Council for Energy Efficiency, on 10/4/90. None of these people responded to my letters. [Comment: I know that at least one of my letters was received. The Union of Concerned Scientist keeps trying to get me to support their organization.]
8. An article "Automakers Move Toward New Generation Of Greener Vehicles" was published in "Chemical & Engineering News", August 1, 1994. This article is about "The Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles", a partnership between the U.S. Government and the auto industry that has a goal of an 80 MPG automobile by 2002. [Comment: In 1992 a government funded study concluded that a subcompact car might get between 39 and 44 MPG by model year 2006 (See #7 above). In 1994 the goal is 80 MPG by 2002. Is it possible that someone read the Shell Oil book? Or could someone have actually read my February 13, 1992 letter, and 95 pages of documentation, sent to then Candidate Clinton?] I wrote, September 8, 1994, to Deborah L. Illman, the author of the article, and to the editor, Michael Heylin of Chemical & Engineering News, on September 11, 1994 . No response was received from them. On September 11, 1994, I also wrote to Mary L. Good, Under Secretary for Technology, (USA) Department of Commerce. I received a response from Ms. Good. It was an undated, unaddressed, form letter. [Comment: I guess the fact that a vehicle could get 376 MPG or burn water for fuel would not be a politically correct finding. How could someone explain to the American people that it was necessary to send more than 600,000 of our citizens to the Mideast to defend oil wells if these facts were public information?]
9. Hybrid Diesel/Electric automobiles (A Diesel/Electric locomotive uses the same principle.) The Manassas Journal Messenger, April 4, 1981, has an article about a MG sports car converted by San Diego State University. The car gets 110 MPG. The Steven R. Reed Automobile Manufacturing Corp., Newport Beach, CA, issued a press release dated February 14, 1983. This release announces the February 23, 1983 showing of the 200 MPG, two passenger, II Millennium Cruiser at the Ambassador Hotel. The press release also states that the company will file "...a major class-action lawsuit involving a considerable number of giant American corporations within the automotive and petroleum industries, plus numerous branches and agencies of the U.S. Government responsible for regulating these companies." [Comment: Don Novak informed me that when none of the major news media attended the Millennium show, the company drove the car to CBS Television, Los Angeles, and parked it on the lawn. No one came out of the building to inspect the car. Don also stated that the president of the Steven R. Reed Corp. has been in hiding for some years.]
10. Mother Earth News, November/December 1977, has an article "Can This Transmission Really Double Your Car's Mileage?". This article is about a Ford Granada modified by Vincent Carman of Portland, Oregon. In simplification, Mr. Carman removed the transmission and drive shaft from the car and bolted a hydraulic motor to the differential. He then bolted a hydraulic pump to the engine to pressurize a storage tank. The storage tank is also pressurized when the car brakes or slows down. The article states that the U.S. Post Office is interested in a whole fleet of vehicles using this principle. In 1990, after reading an article in "Federal Times", I contacted Mr. Robert St.Francis, U.S. Postal Service, who was searching for alternative fuels for use by the Post Office. Mr. St.Francis said that he had never heard of Mr. Carman. I wrote two letters, October 18 & 21, 1990, to Mr. St.Francis concerning Mr. Carman's vehicle. I received no response. Another article in Mother Earth News, March/April 1976,8(?), titled "This Car Travels 75 Miles on a Single Gallon Of Gas", is about a project by the Minneapolis Minnesota's Hennepin Vocational Technical Center that converted a Volkswagen to a system similar to that of Mr. Carman. The idea for the conversion came from a 1920 magazine article. The car, with a Bradley GT body and a 16 horsepower Tecumseh engine (The original VW engine was too powerful), achieved more than 75 MPG at 70 MPH. [Comment: Could we combine the technology of Tom Ogle, 200 MPG, and the hydraulic drive cars and have a 400 MPG 4,600 pound car ?]
11. The St. Paul Pioneer News, August 22, 1990, has an article about a group that 11 years previously modified a Dodge half-ton pickup furnished by a local dealer. This modified truck got more than 35 MPG. Test stopped on this modification when a member of the group was told that he would receive a pair of cement boots if testing continued.
12. Hydrogen fuel. There are many U.S. and foreign patents for extracting hydrogen and oxygen gasses from water for use as a fuel. Some Patents are: July 2, 1935, Garrett, # 2,006, 675; April 3, 1945, Klein, # 2,373,032; February 25, 1975, Chambrin, French Patent Request # 75 06619; July 6, 1976, owner unknown by me, # 3,967,589 (This is a patent for an electrical power generator that burns water); 1976, Horvath, # 3,980,053. This statement is on the Horvath patent, "This invention relates to internal combustion engines. More particularly it is concerned with a fuel supply apparatus by means of which an internal combustion engine can be run on a fuel comprised of hydrogen and oxygen gasses generated on demand by electrolysis of water".; June 28, 1983, Meyer, # 4,398,981. Mr. Meyer has at least eight other patents relating to hydrogen and oxygen gasses extracted from water for fuel.
A. Popular Science, about 1978,9(?), published an article "Hydrogen bus- could also heat its own garage". This article is about the work of Dr. Helmut Buchner of Mercedes-Benz. He is quoted "We are ready now. We could save our city of Stuttgart over one million gallons of petroleum fuel a year by converting its fleet of 300 urban busses to run on hydrogen. Heating--and air conditioning--would be free spin-offs, consuming no extra energy.".
B. Popular Science, March 1978(?), published an article "Hydrogen-demonstrates fuel of the future". This article is about the work of Dr. Billings, Billings Energy Corp., Provo, Utah. and others. The article states that a home, all the appliances, and vehicles, can be run on hydrogen. Dr. Billings converted a Cadillac Seville for duel fuel use. This Cadillac, burning hydrogen, was in President Carter's inaugural parade.
13. Completely sealed reciprocating engines. I visited the patent office years ago, when they still had the open stacks of "shoe boxes". While there, I read the application files for the Papp patent, #3,6(?)70,4944. Papp applied for a patent on his engine, and the patent office, after consultation with the old Atomic Energy Commission, refused to give him a patent because his device could not possibly work. Papp responded with test results, photographs and depositions from, I think, 16 people. Papp said that maybe the patent office didn't know how his device worked, and that theyalso didn't know how the atomic bomb worked, but used it anyway. This statement is on his patent "...2. To provide a two cycle reciprocating engine which does not use fuel intake valves or exhaust valves, does not require an air supply and does not emit gasses. 3. To provide a precharged engine of the character stated in item 2 capable of generating power for a period of from 2,000 to over 10,000 hours continuously or until mechanical breakdown without the addition of fuel injection of airor discharge of gasses...".
A. Papp has a similar patent granted in 1984. Unfortunately, the patent # is missing form the only sheet that I have.
B. Britt, August 31, 1976, has a patent, # 3,977,191, for a similar sealed engine. In the patent application file, Britt accuses the Patent Office of deliberately delaying his application to give a major manufacturer time to file on top of him.
14. Permanent Magnet Motor. Howard Johnson was granted U.S. Patent # 4,151,431, for a motor that is powered only by permanent magnets. An interesting thing about the first page of this patent is the chart of a magnetic field VS electromechanical coupling. The chart is from U.S. Patent # 4,151,432 which has nothing to do with the Johnson patent. Science and Mechanics, Spring 1980, published an article " Amazing Magnet-Powered Motor" about the Johnson patent. The article tells of his difficulties in having the device patented. The patent problem was solved when Johnson took working models of his device to the patent office. The magazine Science 83, May, published anarticle ridiculing perpetual motion machines, one of them was the Johnson motor. The Science article purports to quote from the prior Science and Mechanics article about Johnson. Because had both articles, I compared them, then called the author of the Science 83 article. When I stated that the information that he quoted was not in the prior article, he hung up saying "I will not be interrogated by you." . The editor of Science 83 also declined to speak with me. [Comment: Others have informed me that there are three other permanent magnet motor patents.]
15. The Moray device. Tom Moray, in the late 20s, had a device that could sit on a kitchen table and produce 50,000 Watts of power from a field that surrounds the earth. The operation of thisdevice was endorsed by many people. Moray's son, John, after the only copy of his father's book was stolen, wrote a book "The Sea of Energy in which the Earth Floats". The book is about his father's work. During the early 80s, I visited many congressional offices in an unsuccessful attempt to have any Member of Congress do something about the technology hidden from the American people. When I visited Congressman Ron Paul's office, a staffer said to me "I have something that you should read, come to my residence on Saturday." This staffer gave me a letter to Congressman Paul from Tom Bearden, and the 40 page document attached to the letter. The document is a book that Mr. Bearden has written. In this book, Mr. Bearden states that the Moray device could produce 1.5 megawatts of power. Also that the Russians had adapted the Moray device to power a weapon. The weapon statement is supported by a drawing from "Aviation Week and Space Technology", July 28, 1980. [Comment: Do you think that the local power company could justify a price increase if the power came from a field around the earth? This book was also missing from the LOC in 1990.]
16. The Energy Machine of Joe Newman. I have spoken with Joe many times over several years. He has recently published the seventh edition of "The Energy Machine of Joseph Newman" (ISBN 0-9613855-7-7) The book is available from: Joseph Westly Newman, Route 1, Box 52, Lucedale, Mississippi, 39452, Phone # (601)-947-7174. [Comment: I have no doubts that his machine works as he describes it. To learn of the problems that this man has had with "The Establishment" read his book. Joe filed suit against the U.S. Patent office because they would not grant him a patent. According to Joe's book, pages 274 to 279, the Court appointed a Special Master, Mr. William E. Schuyler, a former Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office , to advise the Court. The findings of the Special Master were that Mr. Newman had invented a machine that had more output than input. The Court refused to accept the findings. I urge you to read this 471 page book. This machine is not "bogus" as stated by others. On February 5, 1996, I was one of several hundred people, in Mobile, AL, to see the Newman Energy Machine in operation. The machine was pumping water while running a power meter, similar to the one on your house, backwards.]
17. Cold Fusion. Despite the rejection of some in the USA, cold fusion is a going operation in other places. The monthly magazine "New Energy News", P.O. Box 58639, Salt Lake City, UT 84158-8639, has information on many successful results in cold fusion. The magazine also has information on "free energy devices".
18. "The Energy Non-Crisis", published in 1980 by Worth Publishing Co., P.O. Box, 1243,Wheatridge, CO 80033, is written by Chaplain Lindsey Williams. Chaplain Williams was on the Alaska Pipeline during the construction and got so fed-up with the deliberate lies of the media, he came back to tour the "lower 48", and tell the truth. According to Chaplain Williams, (Chapter 16) Gull Island, has a pool of oil as big as, and maybe bigger, than Purdhoe Bay. Our Government ordered ARCO "...to seal the documents, withdraw the rig, cap the well, and not release the information about the Gull Island find." A video tape of a speech that Chaplain Williams gave to a group at Salt Lake City, about 1980, is possibly available from: The National Center For Constitutional Studies, 1-800-388-4512. [Comment: I sent the Williams tape and a lot of other information to our current Secretary of Energy. The response that I received, after a second letter, was, essentially, no response.]
I hope that this information will raise questions as to why we are dependent on foreign oil. All our government has to do, to take more money from our pockets, is to have an energy crisis or raise the cost of energy. The only financial interest that I have in any of above devices is that of a concerned consumer who is tired of the deliberate lies and cover-ups.
Byron Wine byronw@erols.com
Big Oil Find Is Reported Deep in Gulf
Proof That The USA HAS MORE OIL THAN THE MIDDLE EAST
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Published: September 6, 2006
An announcement yesterday by three oil companies of a successful production test in the Gulf of Mexico — potentially the largest American oil find in a generation — was seen by experts as ushering in a new era in ultra-deepwater offshore drilling.
Chevron, Devon Energy and Statoil ASA, the Norwegian oil giant, reported that they had found 3 billion to 15 billion barrels in several fields 175 miles offshore, 30,000 feet below the gulf’s surface, among formations of rock and salt hundreds of feet thick.
While it is too early to know exactly how big the fields are, the oil companies expressed hope that they had the potential of being even larger than those at Prudhoe Bay, off the northern coast of Alaska.
The United States has reserves of 29 billion barrels, meaning that at the high end of the estimates, the discovery could increase reserves by 50 percent. It comes as the output of oil and gas in shallower wells in the Gulf of Mexico, with about one-quarter of American oil reserves, is ebbing and environmental resistance to offshore drilling in areas closer to coastlines remains strong.
“This is frontier stuff,” said Daniel Yergin, president of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, noting that the discovery is at levels deeper than deep-sea fields in the North Sea and off North Africa. “Success at these depths in the Gulf of Mexico would facilitate ultra-deepwater exploration elsewhere in the world because it will have proven the technology and capabilities.”
It will take more than a year of drilling to confirm the value of the find, and the depth of the water will make extraction extremely expensive — profitable only if oil prices remain at least $40 a barrel, according to oil industry analysts.
The analysts cautioned that there was little likelihood the report would give drivers much relief at the pump because full production might not come on line for five years or more. By itself, it also appears that the discovery could make little more than a dent in the country’s energy dependence.
And given that the United States uses 20.5 million barrels of crude oil a day, the new areas at most hold supplies that would quench the nation’s oil thirst for two years.
In addition, there is a shortage of rigs able to drill in deep water, another constraint in exploiting the find quickly.
But Chevron and the other companies involved expressed excitement. The discovery in American waters, said J. Larry Nichols, chairman of Devon Energy, “could not have happened in a better place.”
According to Chevron, the successful test was the culmination of about two years of drilling by the three companies, using seismic and drilling equipment at record depths and pressure.
“Our strong strategic position in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico,” said George L. Kirkland, a Chevron executive vice president, “will continue to be a platform for future growth for years to come.”
Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil, Anadarko Petroleum and Petróleo Brasileiro have leases on comparable waters in the gulf, and the successful test is likely to set off a wave of drilling in deep water as well as the building of platforms and the laying of pipelines.
“It’s going to attract deep-pocket and patient investment to work these fields,” said Wayne Andrews, oil analyst at Raymond James & Associates. “These are very expensive wells to drill, and the production facilities required to produce the reserves are also going to be very expensive operations.”
Chevron reported that the test on the Jack No. 2 well, situated 270 miles southwest of New Orleans, broke a record for the deepest successful well test in company history. It has sustained a daily flow of more than 6,000 barrels, a quantity thought to mean considerable reserves.
The successful test was first reported yesterday by The Wall Street Journal.
The stock prices of the three companies rose yesterday. Chevron, which owns 50 percent of the field, gained $1.51, or 2.33 percent, closing at $66.34. Devon Energy, which owns 25 percent of the field, was up sharply, rising $7.99, or 12.5 percent, to $72.14.
American depository receipts of Statoil, which owns the other 25 percent, rose 66 cents, or 2.4 percent, to close at $28.17.
The three oil partners said they would drill another appraisal well next year to confirm the extent of their find, and would probably decide on developing the field late in 2007 or in 2008.
The deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico may represent the last area in the United States where large oil and gas reserves remain to be discovered, although some experts see the potential for big discoveries deep off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, which would require Congressional action to exploit.
“This is a breakthrough that confirms very large reserves of recoverable oil in the gulf,” Mr. Yergin of Cambridge Energy Research Associates said. “This announcement also reflects how the oil industry is marching offshore into deeper and deeper waters around the world.”
Successful exploitation of the reserves requires new drill technology and computerized seismic technology to work in water more than a mile deep. “This would have been unthinkable 10 years ago,” Mr. Yergin said, “but the technology keeps advancing.”
The oil in the area is considered top quality, light and sweet, unlike the oil in many new fields around the world that is heavier and more difficult to process.
Because the new reserves are so far off the gulf coast, they seem unlikely to attract the intense opposition from environmentalists who oppose drilling close to beaches.
Letter to Congress on “The Rape Of America By Big Oil”
I have written several letters to you regarding the RAPE OF AMERICA by the BIG OIL companies. However I have NEVER received an answer from you. Your staff would send pre printed form letters but NEVER answer the questions. Your staff will be in Granville this month and I intend to ask in person WHY YOU don’t answer such important questions.
Congress has caused this problem by not allowing the USA to extract oil that it has just in the LOWER 48. With toadies technology there is little chance of spills. We have enough oil in the lower 48 to take care of ALL the need in the USA for the next 100 years. Pennsylvania has enough natural gas to power this entire nation. All Americans are not stupid, we do not live in a with our head in the sand, and we DO NOT listen to lobbyist that have an agenda that is NOT GOOD for this country.
Take the Alaskan Oil Pipe Line. It has been operating for 30 years has produced over 15 BILION barrels of oil with little problem. The moronic environmentalist that predicted a dooms day because of the pipeline WERE WRONG. WHY DOESN’T CONGRESS OPEN UP THE North Slope? It has 100 of billions barrels of crude just waiting to be pumped.
There are over 250,000 wells in this country. 17,000 of these operating wells are mom and pop wild cat wells that are on private property and are pumping 24 hours a day. You can drive across Pennsylvania through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri and actually count over 2000 of these wells as you drive on the interstate (I 80, I71, I70). THESE WELLS ARE PUMPING CRUDE OIL 24 HOURS A DAY.
Now lets look at the capacity that these wells can deliver. An average bore is between 4 and 8 inches, and the final extraction size could be three to 6 inches. The stroke of the pump averages 48 inches, and the minimum stroke speed to hold the vacuum is 8 seconds. So a stroke will produce approximately one gallon of crude. So each of these wells will produce 12 gallons a minute, or 16 barrels a day, all total they produce 280 thousand barrels a day. That is just private ownership wells. It also must be noted that some of these private wells also provide natural gas. The above does NOT include the BIG OIL COMPANYS and their massive wells that produce 22 gallons of crude per stroke and that are ONLY running at the minimum speed (12%) Nor doe it include Alaska and all the off shore platforms that can produce over 6000 barrels per day per platform. The capacity of this country to produce oil at 50% of each pump's capacity is over 35 million barrels per day.
Now in the 60’s cars got 4 to 5 miles per gallon and gas was 25 cents per gallon. In the 70’s cars got almost 10 mpg so the BIG OIL COMPANIES were loosing 50% because ENGINES WERE GETTING EFFICIENT. So the CONTRIVED OIL EMBARGO was invented. During the 70’s I watched fully loaded transports sneak through the Cape Cod Canal at NIGHT with their lights off. I also watched oil transport trucks pump gas into tanks of abandon gas stations and store gas in tankers behind the TANK farms in Missouri.
There was NO SHORTAGE but an engineered event by BIG OIL to RAPE the American People for their own gain and profit. As the engines in cars continued to get better MPG BIG OIL manipulated the pumping and supply in order to keep THEIR BOTTOM DOLLAR high. Today we see the same manipulated as BIG OIL slows the pumps down so to achieve an oil shortage by artificially cut back on the capacity of their pumps. It is also my opinion that BIG OIL is pumping CRUDE back into the ground to keep the supply low.
Today a car gets 30 to 40 MPG and a gallon of gas cost four dollars. To go forty miles in the 60’s it may take up to 10 gallons, or $ 2.50 to $ 3.50. I know very well as I use to travel from Boston to Cape Cod and know how much money I would need to get enough gas to get there. ALSO the value of the dollar was substantially HIGHER in the 60’s than today, almost 80% higher.
So a combination of the decreased dollar value and the GREED of BIG OIL gas and heating oil is beyond the reach for the average American and especially the people on FIXED INCOME.
I paid around three dollars per gallon last year for heating oil NOW I AM PAYING over four fifty a gallon.
Also remember that the heavier the product the less it cost to refine. Heating Oil, Diesel, Kerosene are HEAVY OILS and they are at the bottom of the process GAS is at the top.
So you see We The People are NOT SO DUMB and Congress and BIG OIL mistakenly believes.
In closing, This country can be TODAY Energy Independent and produce ALL the crude it needs to exist, and sell millions of barrels a day to Europe. We could have had on line nuclear plants, and wind plants, and coal gasification plants. Today we have the technology to completely eliminate hydrocarbons from any exhaust from any processing plant or generating plant. Big Oil now sees hydrogen based systems coming on line and when that happens CRUDE OIL will ONLY be used as lubricants, and NOT for generating POWER or in the automotive industry. So BIG OIL is RAPING the American People because of GREED and POWER. Congress is going along with BIG OIL because of the BUCKS they get from them.
Now I would like a real answer to this document not a computer generated fluff answer that does NOT correct the problem.
