I Gotta Move

[Mr Big]

Sounds like you have a lot of options rpm, which is nice.

Phoenix metro is turning into easter California.

[Holden McGroin]

Get yourself a solar powered RV...

[soda72]

How about Alaska?

[rpm]

Originally posted by rpm
Montana and Wyoming are full of Hollywierd types and Alaska is just too **** cold.

Dang Holden, I like the way you think. I'd love to turn into Captain Ron.

[Nash]

I might be mistaken, but don't you have a well or two on your property, rpm?

What's the bpd on that? And would the city/new owner have to purchace your forecasted royalties?

[rpm]

BPD, Barrels Per Day? My wells are mostly natural gas and are measured in million cubic feet. The best one is producing around 150mcf a month.

If I sold the place I would sell surface estate only and keep the mineral rights. I'd be a fool not to. My mineral rights cover much more land than I own and it's all in The Barnett Shale which has been called the largest onshore reserve of natural gas in the world.

I also own a couple abandoned wells that we are considering turning into disposal wells where they pump saltwater (a production waste byproduct) back into the zone 3,000 - 5,000 ft down. The going rate is 4 cents a gallon and there are tankers lined up waiting hours for their turn to unload 8,000 gallons each. The problem is all the legalese required to get a permit.

[ChefWong]

Ive got another option for ya rpm, In new mexico there is a lot of empty land and the biggest city there has 400,000 people. Just throwing in something.

[Nash]

Yeah, there's always the problem of the water... and the legalese over what to do with it (it's the same with natural water here). Some folks are even saying that the water needed to produce oil will run out before the oil does.

Anyways... That's great to hear, rpm, I thought it was you...

My suggestion? Ohio. Ya can't beat it.

Har har.

Oregon sounds about right to me.

[Mr Big]

Originally posted by rpm
BPD, Barrels Per Day? My wells are mostly natural gas and are measured in million cubic feet. The best one is producing around 150mcf a month.

If I sold the place I would sell surface estate only and keep the mineral rights. I'd be a fool not to. My mineral rights cover much more land than I own and it's all in The Barnett Shale which has been called the largest onshore reserve of natural gas in the world.

I also own a couple abandoned wells that we are considering turning into disposal wells where they pump saltwater (a production waste byproduct) back into the zone 3,000 - 5,000 ft down. The going rate is 4 cents a gallon and there are tankers lined up waiting hours for their turn to unload 8,000 gallons each. The problem is all the legalese required to get a permit.

Anyone in the "energy" business is EVIL!

rpm = Bush

[ChefWong]

now thats not very fair, no that im defending the bush or anything but someoens gotta be in the oil and gas business to keep cars and styff running, not evil, not good.

[rpm]

What cracks me up is all the furor the locals are in about pumping the saltwater nearly a mile underground. They are saying it will contaminate the aquifer and freshwater wells. Where do they think it came from to begin with? It's putting it right back into the zone it came from. Now if they pumped it 500-1000ft down, yeah... you'd have a problem.

[rpm]

Originally posted by Mr Big
rpm = Bush

Huge difference Nuke. I was born in Texas, my wells actually produce and I didn't go bankrupt.

Now stop it or I'll start poorly compairing you to Billary.

[Brenjen]

I'm thinking about Mexico.

 Yeah, good luck with that, unless you have money falling out your butt so you can live in a gated Americanized community. Those places are more expensive & exclusive (& crowded) than Beverly Hills. If you can't afford that or don't want to live in one of those places, you'll end up a much hated target by the general population whether you are a good person or not, unless you are dark enough to pass for a metizo & speak fluent mexican with no accent & can convince them you're not an American you'll be burglerized or robbed or worse. My advice; pay off the local cops A.S.A.P. & pay them well.

[Nash]

Sounds like the same sort of problems as up here. For one thing, we're dealing with a couple of rivers (not an ocean) from which the water is being pulled out of.... and people are starting to get pissed off about that. Then it's being dumped. The thing is, it's being dumped very carefully like you say.

Some are considering heavy taxes on water usage. I don't know where my thinking is on that. Because I don't know of what use that will be, or what effect that would have.

But I do tend to get a little alarmed when I read that oil up here will last 100 years or so, but that the water that enables the drilling will last a third of that time.

[ChefWong]

Tell me about it, we have enough water for maybe 20 years if Rio Rancho keeps growing at the rate it does (one of the fastest growing cities in the Us) and we are worrrying about oil when half our water already goes to Texas. Id rather be albe to drink some water than drive a car.