Bob McCarty Writes

Almost nine months ago, I published a post about an offshore drilling record being set in the Gulf of Mexico.  Today, thanks to a heads up from Jane Van Ryan at the American Petroleum Institute, I bring news of the Discoverer Clear Leader, a new state-of-the-art vessel is capable of drilling wells in 12,000 feet [...]

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On Aug. 19, I shared details about the Perdido Regional Development Spar, the world’s deepest offshore drilling rig, operating off the coast of Texas. Today, I offer an update:
Shell Oil Co. said Tuesday it has set a world water-depth record by drilling and completing an oil well in 9,356 feet of water in the Gulf [...]

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Thanks largely to John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his Republican vice presidential running mate, it appears the “Obama Phenomenon” is, as National Review Online’s Peter Wehner predicted in an article published June 13, beginning to be recognized as an “Obama Myth.”
Werner wrote:

If voters begin to believe that the Obama Phenomenon is really an [...]

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would do Americans a favor by learning more about the Perdido Regional Development Spar and discarding her misguided talking points about how it would take 10 years or more to reap benefits from new offshore drilling efforts Congress might approve.
As the son of a now-retired petroleum geologist, I consider [...]

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I read an interesting article this morning about former professional basketball superstar Hakeem Olajuwon and his close ties to Islamic mosques with ties to terror groups, including Al-Qaeda. While that article was interesting, it was a link that appeared in the one-line mini-bio about the author of the article, Joe Kaufman, that caught my [...]

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