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Florida Could Allow Oil And Gas Drilling In State Parks
February 17, 2012
Florida could soon allow oil and gas drilling in state parks.
Sen. Greg Evers of Baker is sponsoring a Senate bill that passed through a committee this week, and Rep. Clay Ford has a similar measure in the House that is in committee. Ford, however, has amended his bill to specify the oil and gas drilling would take place only in Northwest Florida after concerns were raised over the Everglades.
The bills would allow the state to enter into partnerships with private companies to develop oil and natural gas resources on onshore state parks.
Under the plans, drilling would be allowed in the Blackwater State Forest in Santa Rosa County, and that has upset the National Audubon Society. Opponents to the plan say it would pose a danger to natural habitats and risk tourism dollars.
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8 Responses to “Florida Could Allow Oil And Gas Drilling In State Parks”
REGARDING:
“Why don’t we put a rig in each and every back yard across America!!”
A drilling rig is an expensive, complex machine designed to make holes in the ground and case those holes with steel pipe and cement and any other tubing or valves needed, then to move on. It includes a derrick for lifting tubing, a rotary system for turning the tubing, a pump system to pump drilling fluid down the hole, a solids removal system for removing the drilled up rock and a few other sub systems.
Further, oil isn’t found everywhere. You need a source rock to provide the hydrocarbons, a reservoir rock to hold the hydrocarbons in their pore spaces and a cap rock to stop the hydrocarbons from escaping–to make a trap. You also need a dip or angle to the formations such that the hydrocarbons can migrate to a single place.
Even further, you don’t need a hole every hundred feet to drain a reservoir. Roughly speaking you can drain petroleum over a 40 acre spread and natural gas over a 160 acre area (a quarter of a square mile). Nor does the surface have to be directly over the target area. Using directional drilling it is possible to send your hole several miles. (Every hole has to be surveyed to make sure where it goes and that is public record.)
That’s why you would never need a derrick or drilling rig in every back yard — not that the kids wouldn’t enjoy playing on it.
David answering question
Why don’t we put a rig in each and every back yard across America!!
actually, the ocean’s still there
Well, they destroyed the ocean, i guess the parks are next
Sure destroy the state parks go ahead who cares, nothing ever happens that
is bad around oil. Make that big ole money machine keep on rolling. That’s what it is all about after all just MONEY.
America the beautiful….where did it go?
When nothing is left that is beautiful then will we learn, some things are
worth preserving.
I suppose not !
REGARDING:
“whole operation could be within a privacy fenced area of several acres and wouldn’t detract from anything”
Except for the derrick during drilling, completion and workover operations.
David in general agreement though
Without drilling for oil where it is available most of Florida will eventually become ghost towns with no need to worry about the “beauty”. Today’s oil wells will not destroy the Blackwater State Park, the whole operation could be within a privacy fenced area of several acres and wouldn’t detract from anything. Sooner or later the NIMBYs (not in my back yard) will destroy this country.
Oh yes Sir Mr. Evers I want to see oil rigs in our state parks, it makes the environment so much more beautiful, safe and luxurious. AND it is so good for the water we drink.