1 DR. HECKER: My concern is just for the sheer number, the number 



2 of wells allowed. We might be able to measure something 300 meters 



3 away, 3,000 meters away or something, and consider the small size of a 



4 canyon, put one well in there, okay, and I get nervous about it. If you 



5 tell me you're going to put four in there and-- 



6 DR. NEFF: They would all be on the same platform. It's one 



7 platform. They drill a hole bunch of wells. 



8 DR. TEAL: One platform with one pipe coming down and a little 



9 pile of cuttings down there, that's exploratory; then, if it works, then 



10 you've got 60 pipes coming down and 60 piles of stuff, all in the same 



11 place but you've got 60 times as much stuff--well, probably not 60 



12 times, but 40 times as much stuff. 



13 DR. HECKER: All exactly in the same hole or different holes? 



14 DR. TEAL: It's different holes, but all under this same platform. 



15 The going in different directions takes place after they are under the 



16 surface. 



17 DR. AYERS: Just a comment on the development drilling for people 



18 who aren't familiar with it, it's multiple drilling from a single 



19 platform with a single discharge point where normally, you know, 



20 depending on the depth of a well, you may take anywhere from a month to 



21 a couple of months to drill a single well. It's just one after the 



22 other. 



23 Your total drilling of an area from that single platform, the 



24 actual drilling and discharging may occur over a 4- or 5-year period, 



25 just depending on the number of wells, but that's the length of time the 



26 drilling and discharging would go on. 



27 For different locations, I guess the most extensive one we've seen 



28 here is a 26-well discharge--discharges from 26 wells from a single 



29 platform. The one general comment I'll make based on what we've seen 



30 from the sediment chemistry is that you don't see 26 times as much stuff 



31 from the bottom as you would from one well. 



32 It is not a directly linear increase. You do see-- 



33 DR. TEAL: I was thinking more of the volume of cuttings. 



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