השריפה בעוספיה 02/12/2010

Enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years straight.

3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana's Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate—

Released: 4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM

 

Contact Information:

U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey

Office of Communication

119 National Center

Reston, VA 20192 Main Contact

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•Listen to a podcast with the lead scientist on this topic.

Reston, VA - North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.

A U.S. Geological Survey assessment, released April 10, shows a 25-fold increase in the amount of oil that can be recovered compared to the agency's 1995 estimate of 151 million barrels of oil.

 

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Technically recoverable oil resources are those producible using currently available technology and industry practices. USGS is the only provider of publicly available estimates of undiscovered technically recoverable oil and gas resources.

 

New geologic models applied to the Bakken Formation, advances in drilling and production technologies, and recent oil discoveries have resulted in these substantially larger technically recoverable oil volumes. About 105 million barrels of oil were produced from the Bakken Formation by the end of 2007.

 

The USGS Bakken study was undertaken as part of a nationwide project assessing domestic petroleum basins using standardized methodology and protocol as required by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 2000.

 

The Bakken Formation estimate is larger than all other current USGS oil assessments of the lower 48 states and is the largest "continuous" oil accumulation ever assessed by the USGS. A "continuous" oil accumulation means that the oil resource is dispersed throughout a geologic formation rather than existing as discrete, localized occurrences. The next largest "continuous" oil accumulation in the U.S. is in the Austin Chalk of Texas and Louisiana, with an undiscovered estimate of 1.0 billions of barrels of technically recoverable oil.

 

"It is clear that the Bakken formation contains a significant amount of oil - the question is how much of that oil is recoverable using today's technology?" said Senator Byron Dorgan, of North Dakota. "To get an answer to this important question, I requested that the U.S. Geological Survey complete this study, which will provide an up-to-date estimate on the amount of technically recoverable oil resources in the Bakken Shale formation."

 

The USGS estimate of 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of technically recoverable oil has a mean value of 3.65 billion barrels. Scientists conducted detailed studies in stratigraphy and structural geology and the modeling of petroleum geochemistry. They also combined their findings with historical exploration and production analyses to determine the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil estimates.

 

USGS worked with the North Dakota Geological Survey, a number of petroleum industry companies and independents, universities and other experts to develop a geological understanding of the Bakken Formation. These groups provided critical information and feedback on geological and engineering concepts important to building the geologic and production models used in the assessment.

 

Five continuous assessment units (AU) were identified and assessed in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota and Montana - the Elm Coulee-Billings Nose AU, the Central Basin-Poplar Dome AU, the Nesson-Little Knife Structural AU, the Eastern Expulsion Threshold AU, and the Northwest Expulsion Threshold AU.

 

At the time of the assessment, a limited number of wells have produced oil from three of the assessments units in Central Basin-Poplar Dome, Eastern Expulsion Threshold, and Northwest Expulsion Threshold.

The Elm Coulee oil field in Montana, discovered in 2000, has produced about 65 million barrels of the 105 million barrels of oil recovered from the Bakken Formation.

 

Results of the assessment can be found at http://energy.usgs.gov.

 

For a podcast interview with scientists about the Bakken Formation, listen to episode 38 of CoreCast at http://www.usgs.gov/corecast/.

USGS Release: 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate— (4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM)

USGS Release: 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and Montana’s Bakken Formation—25 Times More Than 1995 Estimate— (4/10/2008 2:25:36 PM)

Disney Christmas Song

Celtic Woman-O' Come All Ye Faithful

Psalm 22

Psalm 22 (New King James Version)

Psalm 22

To the Chief Musician. Set to “The Deer of the Dawn.”^[a] A Psalm of David.

 ¹ My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?
         Why are You so far from helping Me,
         And from the words of My groaning?
 ² O My God, I cry in the daytime, but You do not hear;
         And in the night season, and am not silent.
        
 ³ But You are holy,
         Enthroned in the praises of Israel.
 ⁴ Our fathers trusted in You;
         They trusted, and You delivered them.
 ⁵ They cried to You, and were delivered;
         They trusted in You, and were not ashamed.
        
 ⁶ But I am a worm, and no man;
         A reproach of men, and despised by the people.
 ⁷ All those who see Me ridicule Me;
         They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
 ⁸ “He trusted^[b] in the LORD, let Him rescue Him;
         Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!”
        
 ⁹ But You are He who took Me out of the womb;
         You made Me trust while on My mother’s breasts.
 ¹⁰ I was cast upon You from birth.
         From My mother’s womb
         You have been My God.
 ¹¹ Be not far from Me,
         For trouble is near;
         For there is none to help.
        
 ¹² Many bulls have surrounded Me;
         Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled Me.
 ¹³ They gape at Me with their mouths,
         Like a raging and roaring lion.
        
 ¹⁴ I am poured out like water,
         And all My bones are out of joint;
         My heart is like wax;
         It has melted within Me.
 ¹⁵ My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
         And My tongue clings to My jaws;
         You have brought Me to the dust of death.
        
 ¹⁶ For dogs have surrounded Me;
         The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me.
         They pierced^[c] My hands and My feet;
 ¹⁷ I can count all My bones.
         They look and stare at Me.
 ¹⁸ They divide My garments among them,
         And for My clothing they cast lots.
        
 ¹⁹ But You, O LORD, do not be far from Me;
         O My Strength, hasten to help Me!
 ²⁰ Deliver Me from the sword,
         My precious life from the power of the dog.
 ²¹ Save Me from the lion’s mouth
         And from the horns of the wild oxen!
        
         You have answered Me.
        
 ²² I will declare Your name to My brethren;
         In the midst of the assembly I will praise You.
 ²³ You who fear the LORD, praise Him!
         All you descendants of Jacob, glorify Him,
         And fear Him, all you offspring of Israel!
 ²⁴ For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted;
         Nor has He hidden His face from Him;
         But when He cried to Him, He heard.
        
 ²⁵ My praise shall be of You in the great assembly;
         I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.
 ²⁶ The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
         Those who seek Him will praise the LORD.
         Let your heart live forever!
        
 ²⁷ All the ends of the world
         Shall remember and turn to the LORD,
         And all the families of the nations
         Shall worship before You.^[d]
 28 For the kingdom is the LORD’s,
         And He rules over the nations.
        
 ²⁹ All the prosperous of the earth
         Shall eat and worship;
         All those who go down to the dust
         Shall bow before Him,
         Even he who cannot keep himself alive.
        
 ³⁰ A posterity shall serve Him.
         It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,
 ³¹ They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,
         That He has done this.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 22:1 Hebrew Aijeleth Hashahar
2. Psalm 22:8 Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read hoped; Targum reads praised.
3. Psalm 22:16 Following some Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Masoretic Text reads Like a lion.
4. Psalm 22:27 Following Masoretic Text, Septuagint, and Targum; Arabic, Syriac, and Vulgate read Him.

Psalm 5 'A Prayer for Protection'

The Truth About Ananias And Sapphira - 28 November 2010 Message Excerpt

Proverbs 3 (with text - press on more info.)

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"Silver Bells" Christmas Time in the City John Denver

Merry Christmas

Good Morning today is Thursday 12.02.2010

Good Morning,

We no one will be more surprised than I was when you see what we have today.

As I always do I ask the Lord what do you want to speak to us about today.

I heard Act 29.

Well we are Act 29 the bible stops at Acts 28 (for those that may need to look it up like I did.)

So I thought I must of misunderstood.

I ask again.

Same answer. Acts 29

So, I went looking for Acts 29 in my normal places and found this.

I believe we are to minister to some on with this song.

I had to pay close attention to the words because my brain has a hard time keeping up. So I got the words and add them to the clip to make it easier.

I pray for the person(s) God is trying to reach.

Please remember God is Love and he is not out to get you.

He Loves you and wants only His best for you.

God Is Love.

Sometimes our earthly parents don’t do us right.

God is not all about that.

He Is LOVE.

Think on this.

Acts 29 - Come On

Words to this song, Come on

Im feelin, im feelin uneven and my socks don't match

To my crew you're my team and I got yo back

Im tired of not sleeping and but its not so bad

Im living out my dreams and my works off for that

Reaching out with my arms tied behind my back

Preaching out in my heart but its time to rap

I reminisce on last night while im loving the track

But one light with gods stand but they running the pack

Somebody let me know when im running on track

Take this knife off my neck and cut me some slack

The purest soul, hes earned em on his son and the black

I stare at the sky feeling like the dirtiest rag

ugly I stand, suddenly gets our and bled

Devoured by the devil, hes a powerful man

But fathom is my god, so I can't be beaten

But we lack as a whole, he will deliver, CMON

Yea, I'm just a puzzle chu-- the missing pieces

Called on god so he can be my completion

Songs I faced only last for a season while it rains and pours it was he I believed in

Evils up this earth placed in deceivement

Many feel condemned knowing that he seems them

Knowing that he closes his eyes when he sees sin

Knowing hes as real as the air that we breathe in

Missing church and getting hurt every weekend

Knowing that the only way to heaven is to sneak in

Its not an option no

Understand your not alone as tears flow from your opitic oo's

Like a glass of lemonade when I squeeze the mic

Surrounded by snakes with sharp teeth they bite

Rejoicing my pain,

So I sing instead of cry knowing that he's coming back like a thieve in the night CMON

How can we doubt whats always been real

Receive feelings of proof but still denied the truth

Eaten alive, thirsty for ice livin water

Steaks inside, a nice cold bottle of coscia

the gospel being sold out by imposters

Christ paid the price so my sins wouldn't lock us

Cost us a life; knock us outa the game

Group the kill r pain theres only one name

Judge me for my cost but im not going to pay

Its not long distance, hes not far away

The ends of time tried to scared my face But theres no limitations living in gods grace

Hes eat me fresh and turns my bad into good

Hes not out to burn us just misunderstood

Misconceptions in the minds of the mislead

From misquoted words but that's not what it said

You rather end the wrong contact plus never ask god to reveal what he promised (nah)

Its not always gunna be crystal clear, working out my salvation as I tremble in fear

tronair to the definition of love, life,from under washing my dirty dishes with this blood

I can see past, the physical realm let god in your heart and become overwhelmed

Still bound, by the spirit of the one (one), who shed his blood for you

He gave us free will, and free tum (tum) but theres consequences for the things we do CMON

Proverbs 2 (with text - press on more info.)

A Salvation Message

Marines in Combat Need Your Prayers

We are asking everyone to say a prayer for "Darkhorse" 3rd Battalion 5th Marines and their families. They are fighting it out in Afghanistan & they have lost 9 marines in 4 days. IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE the message spread if more could pass it on.

Semper Fi, God Bless America and

God Bless the United States Marine Corps...

              Often Tested, Always Faithful, Brothers Forever

Claire FitzGerald, Chaplain

Marine Corps League, Dept. of Washington

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Simple Song For Israel

Christmas songs Amy Grant - Sleigh Ride Lyrics

Good Morning today is Tuesday 12.01.2010

 

Praise the Lord!

Let everyone that has breath, Praise the Lord!

 

No matter what is happing around you.

 

Stop

 

Take some time to Praise The Lord!

 

If you will not Praise Him then the rocks will cry out.

 

I don't know about you but I don't want some rock to cry out for me.

So I will Praise the Lord

 

Praise you Lord!