21 Quotes by Johnnie Burton

This sale represents a record in terms of the total volume of RIK gas sold, the number of bids received, and the total number of companies that made offers.

There are refineries that are not ready to take the product at the end of the pipe. So it's not just the pipes that's the problem, it's everything at the end of the pipe also.

With sharply higher energy prices buffeting both families and businesses, we want to be sure that we fully consider the environmentally sensitive development of the vast domestic oil and gas resources off our coasts.

We implemented a new management strategy that increases efficient use of our internal resources, and in fact allows us to do as many or more audits with fewer auditors.

Conservation is the best short-term measure we can take.

Our experience tells us we could expect wells to be drilled within a couple of years after the lease sale occurs. Production is something else. Production could occur within three to four years.

The oil from the platforms might be at 95 percent of pre- storm levels within 30 days or so. That doesn't mean it's going to go anywhere. There are terminals they cannot get to. There are refineries that are not ready to take the product.

The offshore energy industry has compiled an outstanding safety record that allows development of these resources without significant risk to the environment.

Information from industry indicates that large accumulations of hydrocarbons may exist al ultra deep levels below the ocean surface.