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Research Sources

We’re grateful to the following resources for providing background information for this activity:

Government
U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (EIA)

“Impacts of Increased Access to Oil and Natural Gas Resources in the Lower 48 Federal Outer Continental Shelf,” 2007 Annual Energy Outlook

“Annual Energy Outlook 2007 With Projections to 2030,” EIA Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting, February 2007

“Short-Term Energy Outlook,” August 12, 2008

“Brazil, Quick Facts,” Country Analysis Briefs, retrieved August 2008

“Country Energy Profiles: Brazil,” updated August 20, 2008

“Energy Basics 101, Petroleum Basic Statistics,” updated July 2008

“Crude Oil Production,” Energy Information Sheets, http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/infosheets/crudeproduction.html, updated January 2008

"25th Anniversary of the 1973 Oil Embargo: Energy Trends Since the First Major U.S. Energy Crisis,” 1998
U.S. Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service (MMS)

“Estimated Oil Spills As a Result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Setting the Record Straight,” 2007

“Pipeline Damage Assessment From Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf of Mexico,” 2007, technical report prepared for the MMS by Det Norske Veritas

“Oil and Gas Lease Sales in Gulf of Mexico Attract $3.7 Billion,” press release, March 19, 2008

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
“Trends in Greenhouse Gas Emissions,” 2007 Draft, U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report
U.S. Government Accountability Office
“Preliminary Observations on Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards,” March 6, 2007, testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, U.S. Senate
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Natural Resources, Majority Staff
“The Truth About America's Energy: Big Oil Stockpiles Supplies and Pockets Profits,” June 2008
U.S. Geological Survey
“Primary Causes of Wetland Loss at Madison Bay, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana,” by Robert Morton et al., USGS Open File Report 03-60
Articles and Background
"Why We Need Expanded Access for Drilling on Government Lands and Offshore,”
American Petroleum Institute, Issue Brief, July 15, 2008
"Blogger Conference Call on Exploration and Production,”
transcribed by Federal News Service, June 19, 2008
Borenstein, Severin,
“Cost, Conflict and Climate: U.S. Challenges in the World Oil Market, Working Paper, University of California Energy Institute, June 2008
Bourne, Joel K., Jr.,
“The Big Uneasy: Gone With the Water,” National Geographic, October 2004
"Louisiana's Vanishing Wetlands: Going, Going …,”
Science, September 15, 2000
Brubaker, Harold,
“Oil Drilling Off the Jersey Shore a Possibility,” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 14, 2008
Bryce, Robert,
“The Democrats' No-Drill Energy Plan,” Energy Tribune, July 9, 2008
Carroll, Joe,
“Brazil Oil Finds May End Reliance on Middle East, Zeihan Says,” Bloomberg, April 23, 2008
CBS News,
Interview with Severin Borenstein, UC Berkeley Energy Institute, June 18, 2008
Clendenning, Alan,
“Offshore Discovery Could Make Brazil Major Oil Exporter, Associated Press, November 9, 2007
Cohen, Dave,
“ANWR Is Not the Answer,” EnergyBulletin.net, June 4, 2008
"Jack-2 and the Lower Tertiary of the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico,”
The Oil Drum, September 11, 2006
Clarke, K.C. and Hemphill, Jeffrey,
“The Santa Barbara Oil Spill: A Retrospective,” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 2002
DeGregorio, Jen,
“Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale Draws $3.7 Billion in High Bids,” The Times-Picayune, March 19, 2008
Economides, Michael,
“Presidential Candidates Clueless on Energy,” Humanevents.com, March 11, 2008
Foreign Policy,
Interview with Amy Myers Jaffe,”Seven Questions: America's Energy Predicament,” May 2006
Hemingway, Mark,
“Drilling in the Offshore: Unleashing the Oil Companies, National Review Online, July 17, 2008
"New York Times Admits Drilling Can Lower Gas Prices,”
The Heritage Foundation, August 19, 2008
"American Oil and Natural Gas – A Resource Today and Tomorrow,”
Independent Petroleum Association of America Fact Sheet, August 2008
Ivanovich, David,
“Offshore Drilling Safer, But Small Spills Routine, Houston Chronicle, July 28, 2008
Jervis, Rick et al.,
“Worth the Risk? Debate on Offshore Drilling Heats Up,” USA Today, July 17, 2008
Lieberman, Ben,
“Momentum Building for Offshore Energy Exploration, Heritage Foundation, July 17, 2006
Kammen, Daniel,
“Reversing the Incredible Shrinking Energy R&D Budget,” Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 2005
Luft, Gail,
“Iran and Brazil Can Do It, So Can We,” Washington Post, July 6, 2008
Medlock, Kenneth,
“The OCS Leasing Moratorium: Which Way Forward?" Rice University, July 10, 2008
Morton, Robert,
“Evidence of Regional Subsidence and Associated Interior Wetland Loss Induced by Hydrocarbon Production, Gulf Coast Region,” Environmental Geology, 2006
Mufson, Steven,
“Offshore Drilling Backed As Remedy to Oil Prices,” Washington Post, July 14, 2008
"Brazil Not the Best Model For U.S. Energy Independence,”
National Center for Policy Analysis, April 4, 2008
"Facing the Hard Truths About Energy: A Comprehensive View to 2030 of Global Oil and Natural Gas,”
National Petroleum Council Report, July 2007
"The Destructive Consequences of Offshore Drilling,”
Natural Resources Defense Council, July 2008
O’Carroll, Eoin,
“Four Offshore Drilling Myths,” Christian Science Monitor, August 14, 2008
Rapier, Robert,
“Lessons From Brazil,” The Oil Drum, June 1, 2006
Reel, Monte,
“Brazil's Road to Energy Independence,” Washington Post, August 20, 2006
Romm, Joseph,
“The Cruel Offshore Drilling Hoax,” Gristmill, July 11, 2008
Sierra Club,
“Offshore Drilling is a Messy Business,” July 2006
"Why We Oppose Drilling in the Gulf Island National Seashore,”
retrieved August, 2008, from http://mississippi.sierraclub.org/drilling/petition.html
Taylor, Bertie,
“Chevron's Jack #2 may point to up to 15 billion BOE,”Oil and Gas Investor, October 2006
"'Snake Oil': Debunking Three 'Truths' About Offshore Drilling,”
editorial, The Washington Post, August 12, 2008
Whipple, Tom,
“Hyping Jack No. 2,” EnergyBulletin.net/Falls Church News Press, September 14, 2006
“Oil Price History and Analysis,”
WTRG Economics
Zygourakis, Kyriacos,
“Oil From the OCS Moratoria Areas - A Gusher? Or Too Little, Too Late?” EnergyBulletin.net, August 11, 2008

More Information

Organizations
American Petroleum Institute
http://www.api.org/
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
http://www.alyeska-pipe.com/Default.asp
Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas - USA
http://www.aspo-usa.com/
Energy Forum, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
http://www.bakerinstitute.org/programs/energy-forum
Independent Petroleum Association of America
http://www.ipaa.org/
National Petroleum Council
http://www.npc.org/
Natural Resources Defense Council
http://www.nrdc.org/
Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/
Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network
http://www.sbwcn.org/
University of California Energy Institute
http://www.ucei.berkeley.edu/

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Special Thanks

Kenneth Medlock, Energy Research Fellow, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and Adjunct Professor, Rice University; Catherine Landry, American Petroleum Institute; Severin Borenstein, Director, University of California Energy Institute

Credits

  • Researched and written by Chris Raphael
  • Produced and edited by Meghan Laslocky
  • Designed by Rick Elizaga and Eric Westby
  • Created by KQED Interactive
  • In memory of Sean Fagan