Can anyone please confirm this?


21 July 2008
Oil discovered off the coast near Luperón
Has the Dominican Republic found a solution to its shortage of oil?
According to the scientific bureau of the 'Autónoma' University in Santo Domingo, oil has been discovered under the ocean just off the coast of Luperón. It is thought that this source could include considerable stocks, and that it would be sufficient to meet the country's needs for the foreseeable future. According to experts, the oil field extends into the territorial waters of the Turks and Caicos islands. These islands are still British territory, which means it would be necessary to negotiate with the British government about extracting the black gold.


Luperón bay


http://www.sosuanews.com/index.php

i cannot confirm or negate the veracity of this article, time2rize, but what if the British, instead of negotiating with the DR, insists that they would prefer it if the DR negotiated with them? what if the ownership of the resources causes a situation of challenge? it could get ugly...

Interesting article. If this is true BP executives are salivating as we speak. Key words being deposit goes into territorial waters of the turks and caicos.

dread, I posted my comment before reading yours. I see we're on the same page.

It would definately cause tension about the rights to that reserves. I'm also curious as how the international media would react to oil drilling in the Caribbean, since most people associate it with a paradise.

I do not understand? Can DR just pump the oil on its own territory, or is it more complicated than that?

The Island has oil and on certain areas, but the means to survey, dig and refine it has not been developed by neither side or nations of the Island because they both lack the technology.

Haiti had been surveyed to contain oil especially in Haiti's poorest shanty town of City Soleil where plankton and other dead organisms and layers of sediments which have been long been massively forming into the ground due to decomposed swamps of the filth, mud and so forth giving that over time of constant consistent or concise rate and non-disturbance of that process these layers are formed and more layers arrive on top of them the organic material turns into petroleum.

To put it simply, oil is considered “mature” great amount of dead organisms or of decomposed substance and materials coming from land or from dead plankton and other marine organisms, reaches the floors of bodies of water and becomes part of the many layers of sedimentary rock that form there.

The Island of Hispaniola is believed to have oil and on certain areas and more so on the Western side of the Island, now today independent Haiti. However, the means to survey, dig and refine it has not been developed by neither side or nations of the Island because they both lack the technology. One main area in the Caribbean where many scientists have been focused on.

A place always being televised with much negativity may perhaps be a living Well Reserve Depository if all projected calculations are right. Haiti had been surveyed to contain oil especially in Haiti's poorest shanty town of City Soleil where plankton and other dead organisms and layers of sediments which have been long been massively forming into the ground due to decomposed swamps of the filth, mud and so forth giving that over time of constant consistent or concise rate and non-disturbance of that process these layers are formed and more layers arrive on top of them the organic material turns into petroleum. To put it simply, oil is considered “mature” great amount of dead organisms or of decomposed substance and materials coming from land or from dead plankton and other marine organisms, reaches the floors of bodies of water and becomes part of the many layers of sedimentary rock that form there. Thus almost all oil and gas comes from tiny decayed plants, algae, and bacteria. So it is quite probable the island has oil since oil is formed under the crust of the earth due to immense heat and pressure. Some of the countries that are steps ahead in petroleum and natural gas deposits is only because of their geographical location and their earthly earth's complex mixtures.

Oil is still being formed in many different region of the Earth that have long been underestimated or never been surveyed or areas of the world that survey agents have not been able to have access to or to properly surveyed due to possibly political foreign policies and regional instability and such.

PS: Some areas in the World get to have massive amount of oil due to historical fact of the Jurassic period that there are or were more dead Dinosaurs fossils in those regions as many believe that when the earth was hit with this asteroid which extinct the Dinosaurs, during this time the seas and swampy areas were rich in microscopic plants and animals that when they died they slowly decomposed on the earth or sank to the bottom of the waters forming thivk layers of organic materials, which had then in turn became covered in layers of mud that trapped those orgnanic materials.

Hey guys,

I found this link. I hope it will help justifying some of what I was saying on how oil or petroleum is formed. Was I right or what (lol)?

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sciences/EarthScience/Geology/OilandGas/FormationHydrocarbon/HowOilandGas/HowOilandGas.htm

Dig for oil in DR. Let Venezuela come on the island and dig in DR and then Dig and Haiti.

Hispanolo, I can't stand how you make EVERYTHING a DR and Haiti issue. It's quite annoying man. But I know you do that inspite of everyone telling you this is a DR website and stay to topics mostly on DR. I know you are going to response in a long condescend response to show your lingistic prowess but honestly it doesn't matter. You are Haitian and that is your goal to promote Haiti on a DR website. If I were to do the same on a Haitian website, it would be a huge problem and I would hear many people telling to stop those ideas. To have articles relate to Haiti and DR or topics in that manner is okay. However, at times you come on here and create topics and threads that totally random to DR.

Please be cognizant of where you are and who you are talking too. Most people are from the disapora here and use this site as an English tool to inform themselves on day to day life in DR. Keep that in mind.