.Senator lies
Senator Larry Craig R-Idaho Just lied on the floor of the Senate. Just now during the debate to open up oil and gas exploration in the gulf he mentioned that five foreign companies were drilling in the Cuban section of the Gulf just 45 miles off the coast of the US, and then said:
"We can not do anything about it"
And that was a big lie.
The senator knows all to well that the oil in the Cuban waters is in waters over a mile deep, he knows that the only technology capable of reaching that oil is American technology, and he knows that the if this proprietary technology was not being used, in violation of the Cuban embargo, that no drilling would be taking place at all.
But I guess he's counting on the fact that you don't know the facts.
But I did.
"TRADE SANCTIONS
Experts said if the results were positive Repsol would take at least four years to develop production. But they believe U.S. trade sanctions could be a problem since much of the equipment needed to extract oil at such a depth is American."
Exploratory Oil Drilling Done Off Cuba
Oh and Senator Mel Martinez Republican - Florida. is also complicit in the lie, and he should know better. I guess the only way the republicans can sell their bills to the american people is to pepper them with lies and omissions.
"We can not do anything about it"
And that was a big lie.
The senator knows all to well that the oil in the Cuban waters is in waters over a mile deep, he knows that the only technology capable of reaching that oil is American technology, and he knows that the if this proprietary technology was not being used, in violation of the Cuban embargo, that no drilling would be taking place at all.
But I guess he's counting on the fact that you don't know the facts.
But I did.
"TRADE SANCTIONS
Experts said if the results were positive Repsol would take at least four years to develop production. But they believe U.S. trade sanctions could be a problem since much of the equipment needed to extract oil at such a depth is American."
Exploratory Oil Drilling Done Off Cuba
Oh and Senator Mel Martinez Republican - Florida. is also complicit in the lie, and he should know better. I guess the only way the republicans can sell their bills to the american people is to pepper them with lies and omissions.
posted by madtom at 1:14 PM
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Do you really think that the technology to drill deepwater wells is proprietary and solely available through US controlled companies? Got a source to back that up? I think BP and Petrobras and at least a dozen others currently engaged in such efforts would be surprised to learn that the US could end their expanding deep water efforts worldwide with a vote in the US congress. US companies arguably aren't even on the leading edge of such things and haven't been for two decades.
Well did you see the quote I offered right up there, Repsol seems to think so. If they could go to BP for the technology they would not b to worried about US trade sanctions.
And as far as I know there are only two drilling platforms currently capable of operating at such death, both of witch are outfitted with US technologies. The Erik Raude and it's sister.
Two? At least dozens. A quick check showed 13 currently in the Gulf, 41 in the North Sea, 15 for Brazil and I don't know how many off the coast of Africa, but I know it is one of the hot spots for such activity. Those are just the ULTRA deep (5000 ft of water and deeper) capable rigs. There are hundreds capable of doing much of the work around Cuba.
If fact, it IS NOT a lie to say there isn't a thing we can do about it, unless you resort to less than legal means.
Hey you seem to know all about the subject, maybe you could help me find the water column survey used to drill in the Cuban waters? Without which no drilling would be taking place either
I an looking into your last post, you said 5000 ft but I am almost sure everything I have read was in meters, I seem to remember 1000 meters to be the depth of the Cuban wells. But I will have to search to be sure.
"If fact, it IS NOT a lie to say there isn't a thing we can do about it, unless you resort to less than legal means."
Lets take your premise that there are lots of rigs capable for doing the drilling as a fact. We still have the embargo in effect, do you think that any of the companies that operate those rigs do business in the US? If so they could be bared from doing business here for breaking the embargo for up to six months per violation. A legal action on the part of the US.
So there is something "we could do about it".
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