I believe the drilling technique is diagonal, or slanted.  I'm sure it
did not originate with the Kewaiti's...they probably had some help from
Texas.  Consultants.  Hmmmmm...seems the problem keeps returning to the
same family don't it?

-jc

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 12:05  PM, Bruce Marcham wrote:

> At what point in the "last time around" was this agreement for a slice
> of
> Kuwait alleged to have been made?  The only thing I can recollect of
> that
> nature was a weak response by our envoy a short time before he invaded
> Kuwait as to the US's position on his saber rattling (not that I was
> paying
> a whole lot of attention but that was one thing that hit the news back
> then
> as to how SH could've gotten the idea that we wouldn't come to the
> Kuwaiti's
> aid).
>
> My understanding of the situation was that SH was pissed because the
> Kuwaitis were supposedly taking advantage of the new "horizontal
> drilling
> technology" (which may be able to drill down and then turn horizontal
> though
> I have a real hard time imagining the hardware that can do that),
> using it
> to cross the Kuwait/Iraq border and take Iraqi oil.
>
> Mind you this is just my understanding/recollection of what took place.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Follett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:57 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Iraq response & Constitution
>>
>
> I also understand that the US told Saddam that he could have a piece of
> Kuwait the last time around, some of their oil reserves, only he got
> greedy
> and took too much and we therefore had to go in to slap him around as a
> result.
>>
>
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