RE: RBD talking6 Aug 2020 11:37
Onshore drilling is a lot easier than offshore drilling:
logistics is simpler, you don’t need boats, just trucks
you don’t have hurricanes
you don’t need helicopters to move people
if you need to evacuate you just drive or run away
you don’t need protection against the sea water corroding everything.
you don’t need to worry about several (thousands) meters of water before you actually touch soil.
you don’t need to deal with the very low temperatures of the bottom of the ocean.
—- there are many more reasons, I just mentioned the first ones that come to mind
No wonder drilling an onshore well is one or two orders of magnitude cheaper than an offshore equivalent