Oil ~Refined~
As a follow-up to the earlier post on Oil, read this Sept. 5th news article.
LARGEST US OIL RESERVES DISCOVERED IN A GENERATION! Proves Oil Did Not Come from DinosaursNot since the Alaskan shelf was discovered over a generation ago has there been such a huge US oil reserve discovery. The new Chevron oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico could boost US oil and gas reserves by as much as 50%! (--AP)
Furthermore, this Gulf discovery could bring whole new meaning to dependence on ’Gulf’ oil!
But the sheer size alone is not what makes this find so special. What’s so extraordinary is that the oil was found 35,000 feet underground.
But one person who is not baffled by the deep oil find is Craig R. Smith, co-author of the book, ’Black Gold Stranglehold’ who predicted big finds like if people would only dig deep enough.
The premise of Craig’s book is that oil is NOT made from dinosaur remains. Rather, it is produced from deep inside the center of the earth and that there is a virtually limitless supply of the ’black gold’ for hundreds of years to come!
During your Talk Show interview with Craig, he will amaze your audience as he ’connects the dots’ of the oil business in simple terms that most anyone can understand— except for the so-called ’peak oil experts’ who have been playing the same old tired song of ’oil is running out so the prices have to stay high’ song for generations.
“Tests of a deep-water well in the Gulf of Mexico could indicate a significant oil discovery, three companies announced Tuesday”, reports AP.
“Chevron’s find in the Gulf of Mexico validates Craig Smith’s argument in Black Gold Stranglehold that oil did not come from the remains of ancient plant and animal life but is made naturally by the Earth -- and the Gulf is a huge resource for finding oil and natural gas,” said Craig R. Smith.
Smith continued, “If U.S. proven oil reserves can be increased by 50 percent with one deep-earth oil find in the Gulf of Mexico, who knows how much oil might be found as the technology of deep-water drilling advances and becomes even more economically feasible?”
Craig R. Smith will be delivering a keynote speech Sept 6 at the 13th annual Las Vegas Hard Assets Investment Conference, at the Mandalay Bay Resort on the topic of “Oil, Gold and the Iranian Wildcard.”
According to Mr. Smith, “Oil rich countries have latched onto the ’peak oil’ theory and are now using it against us. Why in the world would they want to sell their oil for a penny less than what the market would bear, if the earth is in fact running dry of oil as the Peakers suggest?”
“Guess what?” Mr. Smith continues. “That’s exactly what the oil producing countries have embraced and that’s why many are now looking to be paid in the Euro, Yen, or gold -- or any other form of money that doesn’t have a portrait of a dead U.S. President on it.”
“Chevron’s find in the Gulf of Mexico validates our argument in Black Gold Stranglehold that oil did not come from the remains of ancient plant and animal life but is made naturally by the Earth -- and the Gulf is a huge resource for finding oil and natural gas” concluded, Craig R. Smith.
About Expert Guest Craig Smith...
Craig R. Smith is the president and CEO of Swiss America Trading Corporation, one of the largest and most respected investment firms in the U.S. Smith is an author of Black Gold Stranglehold and collaborator on the book Atomic Iran. Craig is a commentator and economic analyst who instantly engages audiences with his common-sense perspective on national and global economic trends. Over the past two decades he has been interviewed on over 1,500 radio and TV programs including: FOX News, CNN, CNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, TNT, CBN, TBN, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek and World Net Daily. He currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
The following article may be helpful for show prep:
Massive oil field found under Gulf Reserves south of New Orleans could rival North Slope, boosting U.S. supplies by 50% September 5, 2006
Oil-drilling platform in Gulf of Mexico
Chevron and two oil exploration companies announced the discovery of a giant oil reserve in the Gulf of Mexico that could boost the nation’s supplies by as much as 50 percent and provide compelling evidence oil is a plentiful deep-earth product made naturally on a continuous basis. Known as the Jack Field, the reserve — some 270 miles southwest of New Orleans — is estimated to hold as much as 15 billion barrels of oil. Authors Jerome R. Corsi and Craig R. Smith say the giant find validates the key thesis of their book, “Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil,” that oil did not come from the remains of ancient plant and animal life but is made naturally by the Earth. “We have always rejected the theories that oil and natural gas are biological products,” Corsi told WND. “Chevron’s find in the Gulf of Mexico validates our argument that the Gulf is a huge resource for finding oil and natural gas.” The Wall Street Journal reports today the find could boost the nation’s current reserves of 29.3 billion barrels by as much as 50 percent.
Chevron discovered the field by drilling the deepest to date in the Gulf of Mexico, down 28,175 feet in waters nearly 7,000 feet deep, some seven miles below the surface of the Earth. The second biggest source of oil in the world is Mexico’s giant Cantarell field in the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatan Peninsula. It was discovered in 1976, supposedly after a fisherman named Cantarell reported an oil seep in Campeche Bay. In March, Mexico announced the discovery of a field that could be larger than Cantarell, the Noxal field in the Gulf of Mexico off Veracruz. In “Black Gold Stranglehold,” Corsi and Smith argued the theory developed in the Soviet Union in the 1950s by Prof. Nikolai Kudryavtsev that oil is a deep-earth, abiotic product. The theory, the authors wrote, “rejected the contention that oil was formed from the remains of ancient plant and animal life that died millions of years ago. According to Kudryavtsev, oil had nothing to do with the unproved concept of a boggy primeval forest rotting into petroleum. The Soviet scientist ridiculed the idea that an ancient primeval morass of plant and animal remains was covered by sedimentary deposits over millions of years, compressed by millions of more years of heat and pressure.” Instead, the abiotic theory argued “oil should be seen as a primordial material that the earth forms and exudes on a continual basis.” Corsi and Smith directly challenge the “peak oil” theory advanced in 1956 by Shell Oil’s M. King Hubbert.
In an interview with WND, Smith posed the following question: “If U.S. proven oil reserves can be increased by 50 percent with one deep-earth oil find in the Gulf of Mexico, who knows how much oil might be found as the technology of deep-water drilling advances and becomes even more economically feasible?” In “Black Gold Stranglehold,” Corsi and Smith note the importance of the abiotic theory: The thought that oil might be naturally produced on a regular basis, that oil itself might be a renewable resource, is very threatening to those who have invested their minds into believing that oil is fossil fuel. The logical consequence of the fossil fuel theory of oil has always been that we will run out of oil. After all, there could only be a finite number of ancient forests available to rot into oil. Ancient forests, even if once plentiful, are a finite resource that by definition will become exhausted after they are fully explored and their oil harvested. The logic of the fossil fuel theory is that inevitably we will run out of oil. Corsi and Smith note the power of the abiotic theory: “Could it be that oil is abundant, nearly an inexhaustible resource, if only we drill deep enough?” Prior to the Jack Field discovery, the largest U.S. oil find in the Gulf of Mexico has been the Thunder Horse, about 125 miles southeast of New Orleans. British Petroleum holds a 75-percent interest with ExxonMobil to develop the Thunder Horse. This field, too, is deep-earth oil, with BP and ExxonMobil finding oil under one mile of water and five miles below the seabed. Scientists believe Mexico’s richest oil field complex was created when the prehistoric, massive Chicxulub meteor impacted the Earth. “Could it be that the Chicxulub meteor deeply fractured the entire bedrock under the Gulf of Mexico?” Corsi asked in a WND interview. “If so, we might find abundant oil wherever we look as we begin to explore the deeper waters of the Gulf.”
Earlier this year, Cuba announced plans to hire the communist Chinese to drill for oil some 45 miles off the shores of Florida. This move was made possible by the 1977 agreement under President Jimmy Carter that created for Cuba an “Exclusive Economic Zone” extending from the country’s western tip to the north, virtually to Key West, Fla. “If Cuba and communist China believe they too can find oil in the Gulf, we should pull out all stops,” argues Smith. “We may be able to bring the price of gasoline down under two dollars a gallon if oil can be found in these huge quantities within our territorial waters. It’s crazy to think we should be dependent on foreign oil when we’ve made Mexico our number two supplier of oil with the reserves Mexico has found in the Gulf.” “Thomas Gold should feel vindicated today,” Corsi added, referring to the Cornell University astronomer who in 1998 published “The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels,” a book that also challenged the conventional wisdom on the origin of oil.
“As an astronomer reading spectrographs,” Corsi noted, “Gold knew that hydrocarbon products such as methane are abundant in our solar system. Gold knew that the abundant methane on Titan, the giant moon of Saturn, did not get formed by little dinosaurs up on Titan, or by any other kind of biological material. So far as we know, nothing living has ever been found on Titan.” ©2006 WorldNetDaily.com