Autant dire que ça transformerait illico le Bassin parisien en Alberta, province canadienne où l’on a découvert de vastes réserves non conventionnelles de pétrole précédemment inexploitable mais aujourd’hui exploitable avec de nouvelles technologies (sables bitumineux dans l’Alberta, schistes bitumineux dans le Bassin parisien). Alors après les 30 ans de croissance britannique survitaminée grâce au pétrole de la Mer du Nord, va-t-on assister à 30 ans de croissance française survitaminée grâce au pétrole du Bassin parisien ? Ça paraît tellement ahurissant qu’il faut s’accrocher à son siège pour y croire… En général on trouve toujours le pétrole dans des coins reculés pas possibles, le long de frontières politiques incertaines, ou sous des milliers de mètres de mer, mais là non, en plein cœur historique de la France, aux portes de Paris. :nuts:
Pourquoi ce grand silence dans les médias français ???
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Texas oilmen believe Paris Basin contains billions of barrels of crude oil The Times A company from Texas believes that the rocks beneath the Paris Basin in central France contain billions of barrels of crude oil and it is gearing up for a drilling campaign early next year. Craig Mackenzie, chief executive of Toreador Resources, a Dallas-based business, told The Times that state-of-the-art drilling techniques that had been refined over the past three years in Montana and South Dakota promised to unlock a treasure trove of previously inaccessible oil reserves under a swath of French countryside. Toreador has secured the rights to drill in 750,000 acres of the Paris Basin, its licences stretching for hundreds of kilometres from St Dizier, on the edge of the Champagne region, to Montargis, just south of the royal palace of Fontainebleau. It wants to start drilling three pilot wells early in 2010, at a cost of $US30million ($33.8m), and to be producing oil from them by the end of the year. […] Yet far bigger quantities are thought to lie locked in the region’s rocks as "shale oil". This is the prize that Toreador is targeting and which has the potential to transform the Paris Basin into a significant oil-producing region. Mr Mackenzie said that there was "little doubt" that the equivalent of 65 billion barrels of oil lie locked in the rocks of the Paris Basin, almost twice the total level of reserves held by Nigeria, Africa’s largest oil producer, at 36 billion barrels. […] Charlie Kronick, of Greenpeace, said that production of shale oil was "the next step beyond tar sands", the controversial technique applied in Canada. "The problem of oil demand is not going to be solved by digging up dirtier and dirtier oil," he said. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busi…-1225814320480 |
On va tous devenir des Emiratis. 😆