From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
From the Mail:
Britain’s largest oil field could be producing millions of barrels a day by the autumn if Ed Miliband gives a green light to its plans, according to its owner.
The Energy Secretary must grant his approval for production to begin at the Rosebank site, which is off the coast of the Shetland Islands and is the North Sea’s largest undeveloped site.
The project’s owner, Ithaca Energy, said on Wednesday it is ‘entering the final stages of development towards first production’ – with the site forecast to generate up to 500million barrels of oil and gas.
Gas from Rosebank would be used in the UK and contribute to around 1 per cent of national needs.
But the oil would have to be exported elsewhere in northern Europe, as the UK no longer has the refinery capabilities to process it.
Full story here.
Some of these zealots are so fanatical, they would rather watch civilization devolve to anarchy than admit error.
I think it is less fanatical and more capture by those who have motives that are not compatible with civilization and greater human flourishing and run the Party. Most, if not all Western nations for at least the last few generations has had Party Stewards install leadership rather than any form of popular vote. Far too much rigging. Miliband may be independently evil and not need the prodding of the Establishment, but even if he grew a conscience, he would be replaced. They farm these functionaries for many years, cultivating the sort of Team Player who is easily bought and otherwise possessing no marketable skills or abilities to support themselves outside of government so they are beholden to the Party to keep getting the food pellets and the status their vanity requires.
And what are the chances of Miliband saying yes..?
A rational person would say yes. Best of luck getting Ed Miliband to act rationally.
Net zero.
(Please stop using all bold, we can see how important your contribution is – thanks)
Do bold characters use extra electrons and energy?
Don’t know, but it does scream out I want attention
Yes.
A very big IF. BTW, what scale should we use to measure the size of IFs?
Rosebank will produce at maximum 70,000 barrels a day. lol. It has estimated reserves of 500m barrels. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-66933346 At >1m barrels a day it’ll last less than 2 years. If you’re arguing a point it helps to get the figures right to at least the correct order of magnitude. Like most other points on here – seriously deranged.
Investing that money in renewables, heat pumps and EVs has a longer lasting impact.
Correct, a negative impact
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/uk-oil/
There’s not much left. And then?
It seems that there is always someone out there who feels that the statement “reserves” means: that is all the oil ever to be found or extracted. And there are always going to be Malthusian fools who believe it. This phenomenon has been going on for literally generations with the same result: more oil is discovered and it is economically extractable.
What is also true is that there are more politicians who desire human suffering and will use their power and manipulative skills to try to keep that oil from ever contributing to human flourishing. And there will be fools like you who will always support them in their efforts.
I’m really interested in the psychology of the people who are vulnerable to the damage and harm encouraged by politicians and yet apologize and spend time on sites promoting this dystopian vision. I mean, here you trust your reputation (such as it is) to a rando propaganda site that can’t even manage to get a .com domain while ignoring the years of sage advice, opinion and discussion on the topics which you find yourself on the wrong side of, time and time again.
Is trolling really that self satisfying?
“more oil is discovered and it is economically extractable.”
We haven’t reached ‘Peak Oil’
& sadly, we haven’t reached ‘Peak Stupidity‘ as
MyUsernameReloaded demonstrates on a daily basis.
Hundreds of years worth of coal available, Griff.
That is quite low. Normally you stop exploring much when your proven reserves hit about 20 years. Remember that the UK was firmly on the “Nut Zero” bandwagon, so it was pointless to do ANY exploration.
US proven reserves are so high because technology advanced so quickly that exploration wasn’t slowed down fast enough.
The impacts of renewables, heat pumps and EVs are all negative. All three are inferior products at higher prices than existing products.
Beat me to it, Redge.
I live in that climate zone where heat pumps make a ton of sense – especially when the auxiliary heat sources from hydrocarbons (e.g. propane). Now amplify that with a multi-speed rather than a single or two stage, and it makes more sense than a traditional forced air-con/furnace set-up.
For one, the cycled surges and multi kW demands are replaced by a relatively low and consistent power consumption that can be easily handled by a commodity gasoline generator when the mains fail. Two, there isn’t much noise as the compressors aren’t running at full power unless in recovery mode. Three, because of the consistent application of A/C, the humidity is managed much better.
Now as a heat-pump used for colder climates? Yeah, folly.
Investing in nuclear would have a longer lasting impact.
The rest is nonsense,
as DEI energy only exists as long as it can parasitize off of real energy,
as ALL of this fancy renewable stuff is being shipped and delivered with the use of fossil fuels.
It wouldn’t be even there without the use of real energy.
And let’s not even begin with mining process etc.
And even if you’ll reach one day an acceptable level of battery capacity
renewables won’t be able to deliver the needed energy(how many windmills do you need to power a big truck?)
“If you’re arguing a point it helps to get the figures right to at least the correct order of magnitude.”
Indeed, that is correct !! … So it’s a shame YOU can’t get the figures right.
Let me help you …
Reserves of 500 million barrels. Production of 70,000 barrels a day. 365 days per year.
500,000,000 / 70,000 = 7,142 days / 365 = 19.5 yrs
Therefore, it’ll last just less than 20 years, not 2.
See, it wasn’t that hard, was it ??
Note: There are remedial math classes available in your local area.
From the article:
twofeathersuk wrote:
500m / 1m/d = 500 days or 1.36 years.
And at 10 m barrels per day it’ll last just a few months. OMG! 🙂
So since it can only produce 500 million barrels at current speculated reserves, might as well leave it in the ground since it won’t be an eternal fount of endless energy. Its better to have zero barrels and just suffer and whine.
From the article, & quoted by twofeathersuk
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-66933346
“It has been predicted that Rosebank could produce 69,000 barrels of oil a day at its peak, and about 44 million cubic feet of gas per day in its first 10 years.”
Note: There maybe remedial Comprehension classes available in YOUR local area.
It is true that the posted article up front says that (millions of barrels)
Funny how the BBC claims a much lower production rate and the BBC and Daily Mail do not agree with each other.
Flip a coin. Choose your poison.
This is a quotation of the article as it appeared, not WUWT’s interpretation. Take up your issue with the deranged reporter who wrote that in the Daily Mail. You are merely pointing out the well-documented idiocy of the legacy media.
70,000 maximum per day is significantly less that 1m barrels a day.
I suspect in 30 years there will be other topics to discuss.
No where in your link does it say Rosebank will product more than 70K (69K in the article).
The article does claim a reserve of 300 m barrels.
Not sure what your point is other than to argue for the sake of scoring debating points, with a running score so far of 0.
“If Miliband Says Yes”
The deranged Miliband shouldn’t be allowed to say anything.!!!
However, he should be removed from office & prosecuted as an enemy of the state, for the damage he & his ilk have done to our security; they are fifth columnists.
“if Ed Miliband gives a green light”
Why is something so important in the hands of this one dude?
15 years ago: “We can’t just drill our way out of the problem”. Zero.
Today: ‘New exploration licences in the North Sea, which some people are calling for, will not take a penny off people’s bills.’ Milibrain.
Some things, like circular logic, never change.
This does not really matter. The oil deposit isn’t going anywhere. However, politicians, particularly of the insane Miliband variety, are completely fungible. If Miliband refuses, his improved successor certainly will approve the development.
His improved successor certainly will have the opportunity to approve the development.
The only certainties are death and taxes. Everything else is negotiable.