Originally Posted by Mike Campbell
Rig, you still choose to totally ignore the fact that booms don't work in 3-4 foot seas. Instead you pick on other peoples data to strengthen your case. I have asked you repeatedly what equipment there is and you don't really seem to know specifics but are sure its all ok. I have repeatedly asked you why Cho would claim that we 1.5 billion annual income to be derived from offshore drilling when even you say the geology does not support that statement.
The Gulf will recover before the affected populations. Oil company double talk will not save our reef and economy. Why do you pretend that the booms would work in 3-4 foot seas which are the norm offshore Belize when you know it ain't so.
Please address these questions before you pick on other peoples data. Why would you not hypothesize a worst case scenario, doing anything else would not make any sense.

Mike
I am not at your personal beck and call to answer your questions, especially as you constantly distort what I say for your own ends.
I have said nowhere that containment booms would work in 2-3 foot seas, and in fact you know I have said that they wouldn't. Yet you make flippant comments about me pretending things. Why do you feel that you have to distort what I say?
However absorbent booms do work very well indeed in 2-3 foot seas. In fact they work better for a bit of agitation.
Also I didn't answer your questions because I hadn't gathered all my facts.
Andre Cho was quite correct in saying that there was a potential for 1.5 billion dollars of revenue offshore Belize, and the geology does support it. I have never said it didn't. I have said that the geology doesn't support wells flowing naturally to surface at the huge rates that the coalition is touting. Again, another distortion on your behalf. (I am taking it that he is using the much smaller American Billion here and not the International Billion which is much bigger)
The maths are quite simple.
1,500,000,000.00 divided by an oil price of $80 is 18,750,000 barrels per year. This divided by 365 is a tad over 51,000 barrels per day. Get a well that may produce 500 barrels a day naturally and stick an Electric Submersible Pump in it to boost production to say 2000 barrels a day, and you only need 25 wells to get to this number. That is the potential. The question is, does anything ever reach its full potential? I personally would not have quoted this number to the press because of the feeding frenzy it would generate, and such a number will be used to whip you with later, such as you are trying to do right now.
And again I was not crticising people using a worst case scenario. I was criticising people using an impossible worst case scenario. You constantly demonstrate the worst kind of behaviour commonly seen in opposition groups that fail because of it. You seize upon a small amount of data, exploit it wrongly for your own ends, make up a lot of other totally incorrect 'facts' and then broadcast them from whatever means you can lay your hands upon. The government already knows that the coalition is spouting untrue bullshit, and it is making it very hard indeed to get proper and correct information to them as it is surrounded by this stinking cloud of crap that the coalition is foisting upon them. If you want to be taken seriously, then get your facts correct, and stop the distortion of what other people say.