To_Drill_Or_Not_To_Drill

To Drill Or Not To Drill To Drill or Not to Drill To drill or not to drill, that is the question that many environmentalists and petroleum engineers ponder over when a decision has to be made whether or not to open an area for petroleum production. It is by no means an easy decision to make. If they say, “yes”, without first researching the reservoir and surrounding land they might end up drilling a dry well. A dry well means that it is not possible to recover any petroleum (oil) out of that specific well bore. If a dry well is drilled it will more than likely cost the company millions of dollars and probably account for the firing of the advising engineer and geologist’s jobs. Furthermore, before drilling the engineers also have to take into account whether or not the industrialization of the land will harm the surrounding environment. These are basically the two major factors that have to be looked at when proposing a drilling operation. From this it is fairly easy to conclude why discrepancies may arouse between the environmentalists and the petroleum companies. Anytime there is a chance to make a lot of money or to oil, anwr, petroleum, one, land, drilling, wildlife, production, arctic, time, say, money, exploration, environmentalists, drill, area, said, prudhoe, over, now, national, environment, done, without, technology, refuge, made, harm, even, companies, because, amount, united, out, last