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To: sylvester80 who wrote (196107)	8/8/2006 1:05:12 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It talks about sat photos but doesn't show them and the link it mentions goes to - " The page you requested cannot be found. The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. "

To: sylvester80 who wrote (196107)	8/8/2006 9:29:02 PM
From: DavesM	Respond to of 281500

Thanks, Unfortunately, even if the satellite photo were available; I doubt that I could look at a overhead photo of a well head and determine whether or not the well was drilled straight down, at a slant (and if so, which direction the slant was). I can tell you this though, the quote from rense.com: "The whole dispute started because Kuwait was slant-drilling. Using equipment bought from National Security Council chief Brent Scowcroft's old company, Kuwait was pumping out some $14-billion worth of oil from underneath Iraqi territory. Even the territory they were drilling from had originally been Iraq's. Slant-drilling is enough to get you shot in Texas, and it's certainly enough to start a war in the Mideast." is IMO incorrect in several ways: Number 1. Kuwait did not pump $14-billion worth of oil from underneath Iraqi territory - unless you believe that Kuwait is indeed Iraq's 19th Province. Further, Iraq never claimed that Kuwait pumped $14 billion from the Ramaila Fields (at the time, that would have been about a billion barrels of oil). Here's were I think the $14 billion comes from - Iraq claimed, that because Kuwait did not reduce its production of oil, Iraq (figured that they) lost $12 billion in revenue due to lower world oil prices. Then Iraq claimed that Kuwait had over produced about $2 billion from the Kuwaiti side of the Ramaila Field. Before the Iran-Iraq War, I believe there was an agreement about how much either country could draw from the Ramaila Field. During the Iran-Iraq War, it is my understanding that Iraq stopped pumping on their side of the Field, Kuwait continued to pump. I guess Saddam felt that since Iraq stopped pumping on their side of the field, any oil pumped by the Kuwaitis were in violation of their sharing agreement, so he claimed that the money (from the oil pumped from the Kuwaiti side of the Field) was rightfully Iraq's. Number 2. Here's reason that Kuwait drilled in territory that was one Iraq's. After the Gulf War, the border was moved North 600 yards by the UN (also giving Kuwait more of the Ramaila Field) so some wells that were once on the Iraqi side of the border now are Officially within Kuwait's borders. And IMO this is what one would see looking at a satellite photo from 2003 (ten years after the UN's new Official Iraq/Kuwait border). Number 3. I doubt that Texas has a "slant drilling" exemption for Murder. :o)