North sea oil and gas

[cappy]

aye john the olden were a funny lot .....my gransaid i would marry a brunnette as she threw a queen of spades on the table.....but she said or it could be a blond as she threw the queen of hearts on the table........lol ...bleedin spooks R683532

[j.sabourn]

#6 you know Vic there is one thing that always leaves a question mark when one reads the stop press media reports. According to all reports there are a 100,000 Russian troops stationed on the Ukraine’s border , they are on paper our allies , and at least not our enemies , and yet the media has failed to get one interview with any Russian squaddy. What does this tell you of our brave and wonderful media and the freedom of the press they are always expounding. Every news item I have read refers to their own theories , the media going by past experiences are always bigoted to sell newspapers. Their believability is up to the person reading anything they put out . They would in most cases be better employed as gun spotters for the long distant artillery. JS

[vic mcclymont]

John, somehow Putin won't allow a Russian squaddie to be interviewed.
Yes, the media has a lot to answer for.
Vic

[J Gowers]

I think the main point of opening up oil and gas fields is not jobs however that would be great but to get a domestic supply of gas and not relying on expensive imported gas that can be turned off with the swing of a valve for political reasons. While I support the initiatives for climate change we must be realistic, the country is going to need gas to fire power stations (that run when there is no wind) and gas to heat homes, offices and factories for a long time yet. With electric cars, we are probably going to run out of the rare metals to make the batteries before we run out of oil although all of us on the site will be gone before that happens, maybe.

[vic mcclymont]

The main problem in the UK at the moment is that we have insufficient storage facilities for gas.
We export gas mainly to Belgium and then re-import it as required.
I agree we should be developing our own gas, so that we can be self reliant.
Vic

[Denis O'Shea]

John are you sure he was a faker and not something similar? Den

[Rodney Mills]

As a child I was passed around, from evacuation, to between relatives. For two years I lived with my gran, grandad and an Aunt in Chingford Hatch, Essex.

My grannie's thing was a homemade euigieboard (Sp?). Numbers and letters of the alphabet in a circle on a polished table with an upturned wine glass on which we placed a finger, while granny posed the questions to the spirits. Now there was usually just granny, my aunt Jean, my sister Margaret (9yrs old) and myself (11Yrs). I don't know how it works, but the glass moved around the table spelling answers to a question posed by grannie. I didn't push the glass, my sister wouldn't have thought of doing it. Aunt Jean was really into it, and it was granny as the seance moderator and wouldn't give answers to her question, but the damned glass moved around. One of her favorites was, with all four of our fingers resting on the glass. "Who will win the fifth race at Walthamstow dog track on Saturday." It would move to a number, and next day grannie would put a shilling on it.

I don't know how many times it paid off, but it was a favorite question each seance.

One winters evening, granny got the table setup. Aunt Jean said "Why don't we put some of the left-over Christmas paper around the light for better effect. Granny agreed, I stood on a chair and wrapped red paper around the bulb, the effect was great. We all settled down, granny posed a question to the board, she asked are you male or female? Answer male. "What's your name? answer, Keith. "Are you alive or dead?" Dead...a long time ago...2000 years ago. Suddenly there a loud pop and flames rising at the ceiling, the red paper on fire from the light bulb, Aunt Jean screaming, Grannie shouting for grandad who was sitting in the kitchen, he rushed in, up on a chair, and beating what was left of the paper and the light, cord and all. I can still see granny and aunt jean clutching their hearts. I think there was three wet pair of knickers and also one boy's wet underpants in the room.

We never heard the end of it as he had to restring the light and paint the ceiling on his one day off a week

The most exciting thing that happens to kids today, is a power outage and the tv and computer goes blank, shame really, as well as not being able to tell MN yarns, they can't have much to talk about regarding their childhood.

Cheers, Rodney

[j.sabourn]

#3 Reference to the legality of the ownership or guardianship to these seabed blocks were to my knowledge the following. Usually an oil company would pay a lot of money to any country whose sites as fell into their jurisdiction , you could say they held the mortgage to that lien. However there was legislation to these laws , such as the bloc could not remain idle from day 1 , such as a survey on the bloc as to the possibility of enough amounts of oil or gas to.make it profitable , a number of years may be allowed for this , the first ship in would be a seismic vessel. Then according to the contract between the oil company and the government a further period until a drillship or a rig was sent in to drill to confirm the situation. The well may then of been capped for future needs as necessary. The results of these explorations were highly secret and belonged to the oil company they were bought and paid for by them. I would think the only profits going to the government would have been the Royalties the oil company would have to pay on the output of any oil or gas. The only people who will know the truth of the situation will be those holding the documentation of the agreements signed , just maybe there may be a clause that the sites had to be working by a certain year , or the lien on those seabed areas reverted back to government control. Who Knows ? Certainly not the laymen such as us. Cheers JS .

[j.sabourn]

#18 It appears to me with my little wee bit of supposedly knowledge whether right or wrong, to assume that it is the government who would have to make this decision does not appear to me at least to be correct. To be correct then the government would have to nationalise the industry and to my knowledge that hasn’t happened. It is the oil company’s who do the exploration and the engineering feats, for recovery and refinery of oil and gas from sea bed operations, and not the government. They do not have the expertise ,in fact like most things the only expertise they do have is being able to talk . Usually with a forked tongue, now that is an accomplishment . Cheers JS

[happy daze john in oz]

Here in Oz we could have the opposite after the feral erection due in May.
Possible a hung parliament with Labor needing the Greens support to form gov.
But they want all oil, coal and gas projects shut down.
So just solar and wind, but not enough wind comes out of parliament though there is one hell of a lot.

Then they want all to have an EV by 2035 with all ICE vehicles gone!!

Fine but construction of EV globally this year will be about 6 mil, 7.2 by next year.

But Oz only takes about 1% of all vehicles manufactured, might take a bit longer.
About 333 years at that rate.

As to tea leaves, not a tea drinker since about 1960 and how do they manage now with tea bags?

Yes we did the glass bit on the table when I was a kid, got some very odd answers when my aunt did it.

Now we rely on polis making prediction, and what a load of crap that is.

Can any one predict when Cappy will find the 3/9 he owes plus interest??