Iraq's problems were well known to the United States before the war. The Energy Infrastructure Planning Group, set up by senior Bush administration officials in September 2002 to plan for the oil industry in the event of war, learned that Iraq was reinjecting crude oil to maintain pressure in the Kirkuk field.
"Iraqis acknowledged it was a poor practice," said one administration expert involved with the group, and as the main war wound down, the Iraqis "were unequivocal that that practice had to stop and right away."
But it did not. The amount of oil being reinjected is now 150,000 to 250,000 barrels a day, down from as much as 400,000 barrels a day last summer, said Mr. McKee, but he added that he had never encountered such a practice in his long career in the oil industry.
The reinjection of oil was a clear sign of trouble in the underground reservoirs, but the energy planning task force decided not to address them, partly for political reasons, according to participants.
"We didn't want to give fuel to the fire of debate that was saying the U.S. was just doing this to steal the oil," an administration official said.
Task force participants said there was another potential political factor. The group had secretly decided, without soliciting bids, that the contract for fixing Iraq's oil infrastructure would go to Kellogg, Brown & Root, a unit of Halliburton, which had an existing Pentagon contract related to war planning. Halliburton was previously run by Vice President Dick Cheney.
"Everyone realized the selection of K.B.R. was going to look bad," said one task force member.
K.B.R. and others made a case that reservoir management was necessary, and the occupation authority asked Congress for the $40 million now set aside for reservoir management. But Ms. Hall, the Halliburton spokeswoman, said this month that those underground tasks had been "pulled and are not being funded" even though reservoir maintenance is crucial to even present production.
http://www.occupationwatch.org/article.php?id=2005See?
They have been pumping oil INTO the damn oilwells.
And now they can't even manage that.
Wanna know why?
Because the fools have now been pumping SEAWATER from the Gulf
into the oilwells to maintain pressure.
Water injection "is one of several techniques used to extend the life of an oilfield," says Ken Leonard, Sr. manager of the Upstream Group at the American Petroleum Institute. Often, he says, the original production can produce oil with just the pressure in the formation, but "pressure quickly drops," Leonard says. "You have to use augmented techniques."
Pressure can be maintained by injecting natural gas, carbon dioxide, even crude oil, or water, as is the case with the southern oilfields in Iraq.
Leonard says "fluid under pressure is used to squeeze the oil out of the pores in the rocks. The technique is called waterflooding," although he warns that if incorrectly applied, waterflooding can damage the reservoir.
http://www.enr.com/news/Front2003/archives/040510-2.aspRumaila
http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/032704/d01w27iraqoil.htmlWhat is so wrong with that?
The problem has something to do with the US Supreme Court.
AGAIN.
You see, way back in 1980, the Justices voted, five to four,
in favour of patenting life. This meant that Mr. Chakrabarty was free to sell his OIL-EATING BACTERIA to the highest bidder.
During the Gulf War, the US went and bombed the bejaysus out of tankers and oil rigs and flooded the entire sea with gazillions of barrels or oil. This was done after the US and UK were caught helping Kuwait to slant drill into the Rumaila oilfield and steal Iraqi oil. The US and Britain dropped napalm on the Iraqi oil workers who were destroying the slant drills and this napalm set the oilfields ablaze. That is also where the story about retreating Iraqis setting the place ablaze came from.
And getting water to the fires would be far trickier. In Kuwait, seawater from the Persian Gulf was pumped to many wells by reversing the flow in the country's oil pipelines. But most Iraqi wells are much farther from the gulf than those in Kuwait.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2003/030320-war03.htmThen they unleashed the OIL-EATING BACTERIA and cleaned up the place. Some of that seawater made it past the slant drills into the Rumaila oilfield.
Furthermore, the SEAWATER STILL CONTAINS OIL-EATING BACTERIA.
And that is the crap Halliburton has been pumping into the Iraqi oilwells.
Saddam refused to let the Brits and Yanks into Iraq after that big screw up, and so they bombed Iraq for over 12 long years during which time that bacteria was just having a blast. Finally, the Coalition has managed to get into Iraq and see for themselves that there is no damn oil left.
Karma.
Meanwhile, the Coalition soldiers are dying.
WHY?
It isn't even for oil.
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