by Menzie Chinn: As I type this post, the President is proposing once again drilling in ANWR, noting the "enormous" benefits. [1] [2] [3] I'd like to just note the analysis his Administration's DoE just published last month. From Analysis of Crude Oil Production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, published May 2008: Summary The opening of the ANWR 1002 Area to oil and natural gas development is projected to increase domestic crude oil production starting in 2018. In the mean ANWR oil resource case, additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR reaches 780,000 barrels per day in 2027 and then declines to 710,000 barrels per day in 2030. In the low and high ANWR oil resource cases, additional oil production resulting from the opening of ANWR peaks in 2028 at 510,000 ...

Ameriwest Energy is a domestic oil company with one very specific goal: to decrease foreign oil dependency by targeting pre-existing yet underdeveloped American oil reserves.

Vast stores of oil still remain all over our country’s western regions, left unrecovered after traditional extraction methods have run their course. More than half of the oil originally discovered in and around the Rocky Mountains, in particular, is still untouched to this day. The volume of these reserves is estimated to be 23 billion barrels, and Ameriwest intends to capitalize on this overlooked resource by using cutting-edge recovery techniques.

The company’s tertiary (oil recovery from pre-existing wells through the underground application of heat and chemicals) focus is currently vested in three main areas, defined as low-risk, historically-producing properties. Part of Ameriwest’s tertiary recovery program, the South Glenrock plot, contains just under 5 million barrels of recoverable crude, and the potential for about 2.5 million

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