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toilforoil on September 5, 2006 - 11:25am

Does anyone have links to research dealing with the EROEI of existing deep water operations?

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Nate Hagens on September 5, 2006 - 1:00pm

I have a paper written by one of my students pending publication that suggests deep water EROI is between 8-17:1 - depending on what boundaries one uses. In any case, the EROI for deep water has been increasing since 2000. I will post a link once it is published.

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