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Mon Aug-07-06 10:38 PM
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The nations single most important oil field? |
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Didn't that says something like that last September when Katrina hit the Louisiana coast?
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Mon Aug-07-06 10:45 PM
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1. No, I think that ones in Saudi Arabia. |
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You must be hearing about some other field. ;)
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Mon Aug-07-06 11:02 PM
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2. I think technically the Gulf of Mexico is a basin, |
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which contains many individual fields. So even the GOM produces a lot of oil in total, the field in question (Prudhoe Bay) is the largest single field...
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Mon Aug-07-06 11:04 PM
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3. The Gulf of Mexico holds the largest reserves of oil in the US, I believe |
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Edited on Mon Aug-07-06 11:06 PM by Selatius
But many states have made drilling off their shores off-limits. You have to go into international waters in the path of all those damn hurricanes to get at the oil.
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