Talk:Eugene Island block 330 oil field

This Article Violates The Neutral Point of View Policy And Lacks Citation For It's Biogenic Propaganda

Attempted to approach NPOV. Found attribution (Bennett) for the previously cited recovery figures, along with second source of different figures (Heinberg). Correction made in that the more recently pumped oil is of older apparent origin, not newer. Added 4th reference with different viewpoint for balance.67.180.177.87 19:14, 7 May 2006 (UTC) Z

This article is garbage. Richard Heinberg is a musician and not a scientist. He's a reliable source like I'm a Roman Emperor. There is no citation provided for it's many ridiculous and absurd claims and no reference to the many scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who subscribe to the well's abiogenic origin.Wikkidd (talk) 20:17, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

I donno... looks like I have to call BS on this one of yours too. From Heinberg's bio:

"He is a Senior Fellow of Post Carbon Institute and is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He writes a regular column for The Ecologist, and has also authored scores of essays and articles that have appeared in such journals as The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Z Magazine, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, Earth Island Journal, Alternative Press Review, and The Sun; and on web sites such as Alternet.org, EnergyBulletin.net, GlobalPublicMedia.com, ProjectCensored.com, and Counterpunch.com. He has appeared in numerous video documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio's 11th Hour.

For ten years, from 1998 through 2007, he was a Core Faculty member of New College of California, where he taught a program on Culture, Ecology, and Sustainable Community.

In the summer of 2006, he was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities teaching fellowship at SUNY Potsdam (NY), where he led a series of eight all-day seminars for selected faculty.

In November, 2005, he delivered a brief invited keynote at an appearance by Prince Charles in San Francisco, and subsequently gave a presentation at the Prince of Wales’s University of Cambridge Programme on Industry and the Environment.

He was selected to deliver the 2006 E. F. Schumacher lecture in Massachusetts and the 2007 Lady Eve Balfour lecture in London."[1]

...and it just keeps going and going... seems pretty well respected to me. But what do I know.

OH! WAIT, WAIT! I've found the smoking gun: "Richard’s primary hobby is playing the violin. He performs frequently with chamber groups and jazz ensembles." Aha! I knew it. No jazz musician could possibly know anything but jazz, right?

Well, now that that bit of tomfoolery is settled, were there any real POV issues, or can we remove the tag now? NJGW (talk) 18:13, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Article misnamed

This article is, at the very least, misnamed. Eugene Island is an actual island along the coast of Louisiana.[2], not a "submerged mountain." The US Minerals Management Service uses the designation "Eugene Island" for a large swath of federal waters extending offshore from the Louisiana coast, and they split the area into numbered blocks for oil leasing purposes. Eugene Island block 330 and its namesake oil field are many miles south of the original Eugene Island from which it derives its name. (I have not seen a topographic chart of the sea floor around EI 330, but the idea of a "submerged mountain" off the coast of Louisiana seems overdramatic, to say the least.) There are dozens of other oil fields named after their Eugene Island blocks: Eugene Island 77, Eugene Island 110, and Eugene Island 205, to name just three picked off a map of offshore oil fields. If this article is not deleted, it should at least be accurately named: "Eugene Island block 330 oil field". Plazak (talk) 19:29, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

No one had any objection, so I moved the article. Plazak (talk) 14:09, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Map

A map showing the location of this field would be helpful. Toddst1 (talk) 22:41, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Hydrocarbons replenishment

Eugene Island probably is a tipical proof that hydrocarbons are primordial and erupt from great depths. This is a worldwide phenomenon and occur in many oil and gas fields. Russian geoscientists know it very well from long time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geologist (talk • contribs) 00:40, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

482,000 million cubic feet - Why ??

I just tried to get the number of cubic meters per day or year... but 482.000 million?! It is like 4820 hundred millions or so.. It seems to be ~13,64 billion cubic meters a year? Greetings Kilon22 (talk) 14:40, 13 June 2015 (UTC)

The linked source indeed says 482,000 million cubic feet per day: "Maximum fieldwide daily production of 95,290 bbl of liquids and 482,000 mmcf of gas was attained in 1977 (Figure 8)." But you are right, that is far too much Examining the graph for Figure 8, the text seems be in error, and should read "mcf" (thousand cubic feet) rather than "mmcf" million cubic feet. Plazak (talk) 17:36, 13 June 2015 (UTC)