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Rick on October 27, 2005 - 12:30am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You picked up on the same part of the article that jumped out at me: The Saudis are basing their estimates of undiscovered reserves on the USGS. I was flabbergasted at the absurdity of the whole thing.

And if the USGS estimate of 87bbl undiscovered wasn't bad enough, the Saudis upped it to 150bbl, just because everyone knows the USGS estimates are way conservative. This is one of those situations that treads the sometimes fine line between tragedy and comedy.

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Dave Cohen on October 27, 2005 - 12:39am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Re: "The Saudis are basing their estimates of undiscovered reserves on the USGS."

Jesus wept.
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Stuart Staniford on October 27, 2005 - 1:00am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Yes - the irony of that is very rich indeed.
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mikeB on October 27, 2005 - 6:34am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I love it--pretending to be able to put a number on something you haven't even discovered yet. (Not to mention invoking abstract dieties like "Tech.")

We still a bunch of superstitious apes, ain't we?

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