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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (789918)	6/14/2014 1:20:34 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576882

I recall seeing maps of where the known Kuwaiti and Iraqi oil fields are and there is nothing to that claim that Kuwait could steal Iraqi oil by "slant drilling." At the time the directional drilling done today wasn't even a gleam in some engineer's mind. And there's a practical limit on how far you can drill horizontally. I think the max is now something like 7 miles .... to tap reserves offshore Sakhalin island from an onshore rig.

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (789918)	6/14/2014 1:29:20 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576882

>> Yes. Kuwait thought we would back it when it stole oil from Saddam by slant drilling and it was right. Those claims have been out there for years but they are allegations, not facts. And the proper way to have handled it was not by invading Kuwait. >> Would you call the USA "stable"? We're always at war. The point I was making is that stability is in the eye of the beholder. It is inarguable that the US is financially unstable and teetering on fiscal disaster. The war in Afg is not causing us to be unstable but our political inability to control spending makes us unstable.