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[OT] The Case for Cuban Oil

welpy, i'd say the potential 20 billion barrels in cuban reserves is roughly 20 billion too high. The USGS estimates maybe 4.6 billion but i suspect (admittedly on little evidence) that number is also too high. The USGS also estimates that any Cuban oil reservoirs will be small with most containing less than 8 million barrels (not sure how they reconcile their 62 potential fields with none containing more than 128 million bbls with the 4.6 billion number).

the claim "poses no danger whatsoever to our national security" is also over-stated, however, i have my doubts about the wisdom of continuing our current policies toward cuba.

if you have a giant printer and are in to such things this map is nice
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1997/ofr-97-470/OF97-470K/spatial/pdf/caribbean.pdf

usgs reports on oil potential around cuba
http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-m/

this is also very cool:
http://certmapper.cr.usgs.gov/data/envision/index.html?widgets=geologymaps&mapservice=geology_caribbean&xmin=-93.98&xmax=-55.59&ymin=5.96&ymax=29.94