Abstract: Go East Young Man

By

Philip Oxley

Like the sweep of population, oil and gas exploration generally moved from East to West in the United States, but unlike the population movement it left behind frontiers of depth or operational difficulty still intact. With the recent perception of the energy shortage and the increased value of new oil and gas these exploration frontiers are being opened. Among them is the Atlantic Continental Shelf where the industry in the last four years has broken new ground not only in wildcatting and discovering oil and gas but also in introducing itself to states and communities whose people consumed its products as avidly as anyone, clipped the coupons and played the energy game for money but were more comfortable to think of offshore rigs, roughnecks and workboats sanitarily quarantined in the Gulf of Mexico.

The oil and gas potential of the Atlantic Offshore is described with brevity and clarity, neither of which can be found in the actions of many State and Federal Agencies and various groups of exploration obstructionists whose role in Atlantic Offshore exploration efforts is recounted with appropriately saddened bemusement.

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