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The guy/girl who finishes last in their class at med. school, is still called Doctor.

Hope everything is good with you and family. I had noticed your absence.

We are suffering the moratorium blues down here. We have sat at the dock for about 70 days and counting, this is more than the last 7 or 8 years combined.

I don't know if I am any smarter.

The 2nd moratorium is scheduled to end nov. 31, but they are not issuing permits for anything at this time. It shouldn't last to much longer, we are thinking should be back to normal @ jan. or when it starts affecting the gas and heating oil price, then it will be negative to politics.

Some cases it has been from the one side to the other, it is because there are new studies of those subjects. Some doctors say always the latest version of some investigation.

More important thing is, to find out which is the the right way for that person who is in need of that information. It greatly depends which is good for different people, and which is not.

What is good for someone, ultimately depends on very many things, every thing is altering the other things too. There is no 100% sure answer for questions is some thing good or bad for everybody, it depends on that person and circumstances.

It is not to bad on the job loss front most companies are doing what they can to retain their workers, but that is the reason it will go on till after the elections. No massive job loss to force the issue, it allows President Obama to not piss off his base by dropping the moratorium until the deadline, the republicans can not use job loss to beat them over the head before the elections.

The goverment is actually putting out regulations that will increase the work load and require more workers for some sectors of service companies. It is not all bad, but the moratorium as a whole is just a political play, but we should live through it.

One regulation we are hearing is coming, is if a well has not been produced for five years it has to be permanently plugged and abandoned (P&A). Right now there are 3,500 wells that fall under this criteria. These wells are under temporary plug permits, some date back to the 50's and 60's. The new reg. requires the oil company remove infrastucture, permanently P&A the well and decommission all pipelines. This is more work than Rita and Katrina damage created combined. This will create alot of jobs for service companies, shipyards, vessel companies, engineers, offshore construction/salvage, more truck drivers, the list goes on and on. The oil companies are not happy with this, but it will help us out alot.

There are people suffering as a result of the moratorium, it just has affected us at this point. If it turns into a never ending shut down, it will eventually affect the whole country. They could continue a back-door moratorium by not issuing permits. Which is what they are doing to the shallow water projects at this time. They claim the shallow water is open, but they are not issuing permits.

I like the idea for the purely selfish reasons that it will create more work, jobs and provide me with a little more job security. There is no proof that the temp plugs are not sufficient, the platforms and old pipelines represent old technology, they should be removed for that fact alone. The oil companies were saving money by not removing them, they are unsightly and should be removed. Even with a permenant plug if the old wells are deemed profitable to reopen, they can revist them with not much difficulty. The infastructure would have needed replacement on alot of those old wells anyway due to age and wear if they were to be produced again.

You have to force the oil companies to spend money on something that has no potential return, but they should clean up after themselves. I see they came out thursday with new regulation recomendations, but can't seem to find the list, everything depends on the wording.