Onshore drilling for offshore oil

Scotsman:

DRILLING has started at Scotland's first onshore oilrig in a move that could become more common as crude prices soar.

The Lybster field takes its name from the Caithness village where work has started to reach the undersea reserves.

The developers, Caithness Petroleum, believe the rig could bring in up to 1,000 barrels a day by the end of this year.

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Banchory-based Reach Exploration carried out research work and its survey indicated potential reserves in the Lybster field, in the Inner Moray Firth, of between three and four million barrels of oil.

It was discovered 12 years ago but was considered too expensive by the major oil companies to drill using offshore platforms at the time.

But recent technological advances have allowed it to become only the second oilfield in the UK to be drilled from the land, after Wytch Farm in Dorset.

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That is a pretty nice oil patch and it indicates how directional drilling has changed the oil business. It also indicates how much it costs to get oil out of certain formations. This seems to be a fact that has avoided Democrat thinking on energy.

I think directional drilling was invented by some Texans who were trying to steal the oil from their neighbors property. They got caught and were prosecuted, but obviously the idea had some merit in situations where it was legal.

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