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2010-10-01 | |||||||
The Spanish energy company, Repsol, which drilled an exploratory well in 2004 off the coast near Havana, has contracted to drill the first of several exploratory wells with a semi-submersible rig that is expected to arrive in Cuba at the end of the year, said Jorge Piñon, an energy expert and visiting research fellow at the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University. He said the rig is expected to drill down 5,600 feet in an area about 22 miles north of Havana and 65 miles south of the Marquesas Keys. Luis Alberto Barreras Cañizo, who led the Cuban delegation as a representative of Cuba's Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, confirmed the plans for exploration. ``Cuba needs to find its oil, it's a resource Cuba needs,'' he told the Bradenton Herald in an interview.
Guggenheim has been working on marine research and conservation issues with Cuba for nearly a decade and assisted the country with satellite images and models to track the trajectory of the Gulf spill. He said computer modeling shows that an oil spill off Cuba's coast could end up in U.S. waters -- chiefly the Florida Keys and the state's east coast.
Barreras said he's not worried about the ecological effects of offshore drilling, saying, ``the Cuban environmental framework is very progressive.''
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, accused the Cuban regime of saying ``anything to attract investors and convince them to open their wallets.''
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Posted by:Steve White |
#7 Water Modem: I don't want BP drilling deep again. I'd rather the central government would stop holding BP's actions against people who aren't BP, such as Chevron, Shell, and all the others with better safety records. The whole drilling moratorium, in its twisted way, served to protect BP's relative position among its competitors, because everyone is busted back to the position of reselling Saudi and Russian (and etc.) oil at a very modest markup and taking the blame for whatever price fluctuations the various state-owned oil producers manage to inject into the process. |
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-10-01 20:15 |
#6 Good luck. The Cubans will drill. The Russians will drill. The Chinese will drill. The Mexicans will drill. The US will hold out for hope and change. |
Posted by: Kelly 2010-10-01 18:35 |
#5 ``A policy of isolationism doesn't benefit anyone. We have a selfish interest in talking with Cuba,'' said David Guggenheim, a conference organizer and senior fellow at The Ocean Foundation in Washington. ``At a minimum, you need a good Rol |
Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-10-01 12:10 |
#4 SO, Castro is showing Obama as the Moron he is. GOOD. We can use Cuban Drilling as the reason to resume our own drilling, put OUR people back to work, and ignore Obama's Ban, sounds like a plan. Then when the Saudi's cut off THEIR oil, it won't affect us. (Not as badly anyway) |
Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-10-01 10:45 |
#3 Hold that thought H2O Modem. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2010-10-01 10:22 |
#2 Besoeker, since that name is so similar to the captive BP subsidiary company.... It would soon be absorbed via legal means and we would have BP drilling deep again....... just something to ponder..... |
Posted by: Water Modem 2010-10-01 09:43 |
#1 Castroil ? (sorry it just came out) |
Posted by: Besoeker 2010-10-01 01:11 |