1 DR. GRASSLE: Okay. 



2 DR. COOPER: Fred, if we are off this specific item "B" here, I 



3 would like to ask a generic question. 



4 To anybody's knowledge has there ever been a reasonably 



5 comprehensive before-during-and-after study of a production platform? I 



6 know a lot during--early put together during and some after-- 



7 DR. GRASSLE: I think that that is the whole point of the 



8 California program--to see what the effects of a production field are on 



9 communities. 



10 DR. COOPER: Is that actually going to be funded or is that 



11 underway? 



12 DR. AURAND: It is underway. 



13 DR. AURAND: The problem is that there has been difficulty in 



14 getting permits to install the platform, and what--we thought by this 



15 time we would have had 2 or 3 years of pre-platform data and be into the 



16 placement of the platform phase, and we are not. 



17 So that whole study is being rethought right now, because we are 



18 ending up with this 5 or 6 years of pre- data, which is not a bad thing 



19 to have 5 or 6 years of pre-platform data-- 



20 DR. COOPER 



21 DR. AURAND 



22 DR. COOPER 



It is probably good, as a matter of fact. 



Yes. 



The problem is that nobody can tell us when the 



23 platform is ever going to get permitted, and so we do not know whether 



24 we are going to continue yearly--we are doing quarterly sampling and it 



25 costs a lot of money and we cannot tell how long we will have to do this 



26 before something happens. 



27 DR. KRAEUTER: You may not want 10 years of that data. 



28 DR. AURAND: So we are trying to figure out what we will do with 



29 that. 



30 Now, as far as the same platform in all three of those 



31 places-'Since they put a platform in for 20 or 30 years--there is no 



32 instance where we have documentation of exactly what was there before 



33 they put them in, what happened while they were putting them in, what 



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