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> Oil discovery could put Cuba in big league By Kim Hjelmgaard Last update: 1:14 p.m. EDT Oct. 18, 2008 LONDON (MarketWatch) -- (Corrects to fix reported oil reserves.) Cuba's oil reserves may be substantially larger than originally estimated, according to reports. Cuban energy officials have said that the country may have over 20 billion barrels of recoverable oil in its offshore fields in the Gulf of Mexico. If confirmed, such reserves would put Cuba among the world's top 20 oil-producing nations.< On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Eugene Coyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw a news item yesterday re a Cuban announcement of a huge new field off > Cuba. Gigantic new field. And have seen nothing more. Was the first one > real? > > Gene Coyle > > > On Oct 21, 2008, at 1:40 PM, Jim Devine wrote: > >> when oil prices were rising, a lot of people were talking about "peak >> oil." Now that oil prices are falling, and OPEC is scrambling to fight >> that result, I haven't seen that kind of talk. It would be interesting >> to do one of those surveys to see if there are oscillations of >> references to "peak oil" in newspapers that are correlated with (real) >> oil price fluctuations. >> >> I've always been afraid that they were confusing the results of >> short-term supply bottlenecks and steeply increasing demand with those >> of a fundamental and final running-out of oil supplies. Of course, we >> can't know for sure. >> >> The big problem, I think, is that falling oil prices may discourage >> conservation efforts, the struggle to replace fossil fuels with clean >> ones. That would speed up global warming. >> >> -- >> Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange >> days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. >> _______________________________________________ >> pen-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
