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Old 12-03-2008, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by chico20854
Ok, I found a 2000 Australian government report on oil and gas. Its at http://www.ga.gov.au/image_cache/GA6117.pdf It seems to have some good stuff in it. One thing I notice - wells that produce 2,000 barrels a day are "plugged and abandoned." Not in t2k!!!!
Yeah, that was part of what I was trying to get across in my earlier posts on Australia's natural resources - maybe not in population but certainly in resource reserves Australia really is an awakening giant. Another point is uranium, Australia has absolutely heaps of it! The uranium used in the first Trinity nuclear test in the USA during WWII was mined at the location of the current Roxby Downs uranium mine in South Australia.
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