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Plenty of Oil?

Why are oil giants dragging their feet to recover over a billion barrels right here in North America? 

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2006/081806GORCYCA.html
 
While the American public is struggling to pay $3 a gallon at the pumps, it seems that there is plenty of oil right here in North America that the oil companies have been ignoring for years, with an apparent wink and a nod from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Just recently the Wall Street Journal reported that Chevron was working with "new" steam injection technology in Saudi Arabia to recover millions of gallons of heavy crude oil trapped in rock formations surrounding "dry" wells. In reality however, this technology has been around since 1980 and patented by a Sam Miller in 1990 (U.S. Patent No. 4967840). Basically, super-hot steam is injected under great pressure into a dry well that fragments the rock formations down to 12,000 feet and releases oil in amounts that far exceed what the well produced in its lifespan. Geologists agree that as much as 85% of the Earth's oil reserves remain trapped in these formations, and what has been pumped out today is a small fraction of what remains. A U.S. Department of Energy Report dated 1980 even addressed this potential, but allocated no funding to pursue development of the technology. Why?

Furthermore, last year Miller's son teamed up with Hobson Secondary Oil of New Jersey and proved beyond any doubt in 15 field tests that the technology works flawlessly. In less than an hour after injecting 800 degree steam into dry capped wells, they began to flow at rates up to 1,500 barrels per day--without any negative impact to the environment. Hobson and Miller have offered their technology to the oil companies of the world at no up-front cost to the oil companies and guess what--no takers. Again the question is Why?

Perhaps the answer is the same as the one when we ask why no new refineries have been built in the last 20 years in North America despite record profits in the billions and a glaringly obvious shortage of refining capacity in the world. After all, we were all told by the major oil companies that today's soaring prices are not due to a supply shortage, but rather a refining limitation.

Could it be oil companies are deliberately dragging their feet on the implementation of steam injection technology to keep oil prices and profits artificially high? Such price-manipulation tactics are highly illegal but have proven highly successful in the diamond industry. Further consider that it costs more to refine heavy crude than the light crude we get from the Middle East. The technology Hobson Secondary Oil uses works only on the heavy crude oil found here in North America. So let's look at this logically for a moment... If it costs 70 cents less a barrel to process Saudi Light Crude Oil than heavy crude, but we have to pay 90 cents per barrel in transportation costs to get that oil to the U.S. then hey--there is something wrong with this picture. And no oil executive wants to step up with a plausible explanation. It appears consumers around the world are being taken for a costly ride by the oil giants who want to delay technology "breakthroughs" for as long as possible. HSO's steam trucks convert a dead dry well into a bountiful flowing one in less than a day, yet the oil companies conveniently turn a blind eye. The spin masters of the industry really have a challenge on their hands with this one.