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Get any deeper, and you’re leaving the sedimentary deposits of organic matter that make oil,” says Paul Siegele, who oversees the company’s offshore exploration and development in the gulf. ” Not that the oil companies haven’t started to survey the deepest ocean floors anyway, just in case. Roughnecks and Mud Coleman takes us through the Deep Seas’ 200-bunk living quarters, its offices, and the bridge, and then out onto a catwalk that hovers over the deck. Below is a rack holding “risers,” 75-foot-long sections of pipe that house the drill string on its way to the seafloor.
With the cost of labor and equipment, drilling in Green Canyon costs Chevron around $500,000 a day. Casing, for instance, costs around $100 per foot. The drill bits run around $80,000 each, and there are 140 to 175 well-paid people onboard, from cooks to highly trained geologists. 5 billion. Because of the resulting financial pressure, Deep Seas hasn’t been back to shore since it was launched five years ago. Every six months or so, a supply ship pulls up alongside and pumps a million gallons of diesel onboard.
But as he remembers it, Cheney picked only the cherry he liked from the Alternative Scenario: its emphasis on soot and the lesser greenhouse gases. He used this to justify ignoring carbon dioxide. Indeed, the energy policy Cheney introduced poses a tremendous climatic danger. It relies on increasing supplies through oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; opening other public lands to coal, natural-gas, and oil exploitation; and constructing more than 1,000 new power plants. So Hansen convened the A-Team.
