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July 27th 05, 10:54 PM

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:07:17 -0500, wrote:

It is the "crazy white men" (I am not racist,there are a lot of other
people of color whom are very smart too) who maintain and keep those oil
wells going.The ragheads (not confusing India with ragheads,they are
smart too) can't keep those oil wells going by themselves.I noticed oil
is about $60.00 per barrel nowdays.If we are stealing their oil,why is
it I paid $31.00 and pocket change yesterday afternoon to fill my car's
tank up with gasoline to the tune of $2.07.9 at the MurphyUSA gas
station? Gasoline should be dirt cheap if we are stealing their oil.I am
heading on over to the Goodwill store now to see what kind of junk I
don't need,(and flirt with the women over there too) might as well burn
a little of that oil I bought yesterday.That married Irish woman wayyyy
over yonder across the big pond tells me,Larry,you don't need any more
junk!
cuhulin

If the gas is not going to be used to create petroleum products, Mr.
Braudaway said, it would normally be reinjected to keep the pressure
up as oil is extracted, insuring a longer life for the wells. But Iraq
does not do that either. Instead, in the south, which has 80 percent
of the country's oil reserves, it uses an antiquated system of water
injection to keep the pressure up. (The problems are even worse in the
north, where for reasons known only to themselves, Iraqi engineers
pumped things like excess fuel oil, refinery residues and old crude
oil into some wells, probably damaging them permanently.)

At one "cluster pump" station with a new computerized control system
that the American money had purchased, the water appeared to be
flowing normally when a group of visitors arrived, although one major
pump had broken down minutes before. At another pumping station, which
moves crude through one of two critically important pipelines for
export from platforms in the Persian Gulf, the equipment was
oil-encrusted and generally could have used a coat of paint, but it
seemed to be functioning.

The problems with the liquefied gas plant, though, immediately caught
the attention of the Kellogg engineers as they drove up in a convoy of
sport utility vehicles. "It is very dangerous," Mr. Humphries said of
the gas streaming from the broken towers. "You're just pushing it off
into the atmosphere." Mr. Ibraheem, the production manager, said the
British military, which has responsibility for the south of Iraq, had
been warned not to fly in the area. And as he began to lead a tour
through the plant, he asked a photographer not to use his flash.
"Camera makes sparks," Mr. Ibraheem said. The tour passed without
incident, but as the visitors were leaving, they encountered five big
metal cylinders lying on the ground next to a road. It turned out they
were new tips for the towers that the plant had been storing since
before the war.

But the new plant managers had not been able to find the huge cranes
that would be needed to put the tips in place. Now the engineers are
hoping to install them by May. Standing next to the replacements was
Hassan Monsour Fadher, a retired safety manager at the plant. When
asked how the tips would work, Mr. Fadher demurred and said,
chuckling: "You are giving me exam." Then he lighted a cigarette and
took a couple of long drags.