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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY MAY 3, 2007
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Gen. Richard B. Myers, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks Wednesday evening at the Dole Institute of Politics. He is a native of Kansas City, Kan.
Myers: Military needs reform
》DOLE LECTURE
BYTYLER HARBERT
Gen. Richard B. Myers, a Kansas City, Kan., native, said because he came from Kansas, he liked simple analogies and he had one regarding terrorists.
"How many of you have been to Chuck E. Cheese's?" Myers asked while speaking on campus. "You know that whack-a-mole thing?"
He said the military policy right now was like the arcade game because the military tries to whack at the terrorists as they pop up, and that the method had been somewhat effective.
He said a better policy would be to "take off the back of the machine" by changing the ideology of men and women who want to join al-Qaida through a strategy of diplomacy, education and information supported with the help of U.S. allies.
Myers, who retired in 2005 as the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave the Dole Lecture on Wednesday night during the program of the semester at the Robert
J. Dole Institute of Politics. Myers served in the U.S. Air Force for 40 years and was chairman during the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions.
His term as chairman began only a few weeks after Sept. 11, 2001, and he said even though the national debate about security had recently been focused on the Iraq War, he said the largest safety issue the U.S. currently faced was the threat from violent extremism.
"It's an enemy that has a long-range plan," Myers said. "They're small, but they're undeterred.
terrorist organizations like al-Qaida commit violent acts to create an environment of fear, Myers said. He said some businesses are just now recovering from the effect of Sept. 11.
"That's how they want to work," he said. "When we're afraid we don't think logically."
Myers said President George W. Bush usually came into his office, "bouncy of step and quippy." He and the president even made bets about football games between the
University of Texas and Kansas State University, where Myers graduated in 1965.
But after seeing the president the day after Sept. 11, Myers said he had, "never seen a more somber person."
The president told Myers and others that day that he might make some decisions in the coming years that people might not like or could cost him another term as president, Myers said. He said he was moved that the president was that determined.
Having traveled extensively to visit with thousands of troops throughout his career, Myers said the friends he had made around the world of different religions and persuasions all want generally the same thing.
"They want a secure and safe environment for their children and grandchildren to grow up in," he said.
Kansan staff writer Tyler Harbert can be contacted at tharbert@ kansan.com.
— Edited by Jyl Unruh
2008 ELECTION Obama to visit St. Louis, Kansas City this month
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has scheduled fundraising visits to St. Louis and Kansas City, the Democrat's campaign said Wednesday.
The events will be Obama's first visits to the cities since announcing in February his plan to run for president.
Obama will appear at 4:30 p.m. Friday at the Moolah Theatre in St.Louis.The event is open to the public and costs $50 for general admission.The cost for students and seniors is $25,the campaign said.
The Kansas City event is scheduled for 2 p.m. May 12 at the Downtown Mariotti.
It's open to the public at a cost of $25 for general admission or $10 for students and seniors.
The campaign said costs vary from city to city based on factors that include where the event is held.
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》 ENVIRONMENT
Natural gas field needs new plan
BY DANAE DESHAZER
The natural gas field, the largest field in the western hemisphere, covers a nine-county area in Kansas and Oklahoma, supplying gas to 2/3 of the homes in Kansas.
Gas companies need to reevaluate ways to recover natural gas from the Hugoton natural gas field, according to a recent study by the Kansas Geological Survey.
Natural gas is methane used to heat homes and power gas stoves. With more than 12,000 wells, Hugoton has seen a decline in gas production throughout the years, resulting in the survey's inquiry.
"People were thinking there is no more left, because the gas was slow to come out," said Martin Dubois, the survey's project manager. "It has slowed down so much that they thought maybe there is not much left to produce. The approach to get it out must change."
Geologists predicted 65 percent of the field's natural gas had been used since its discovery in 1922. However, Dubois worked to find where exactly the remaining 35 percent was located.
Dubois and his colleagues at the survey created a three-dimensional virtual rock model of the reservoir system in order to discover the gas concentration within the rocks levels.
Dubois said the type of rock in the field was important, because each rock has a different ability to contain and release gas.
A rock's ability to contain and release gas depends on its pores. The rocks that had already released all of its gas had large pores, with high permeability, meaning a high rate of material release.
The remaining gas was stuck in low-permeable rocks with numerous smaller holes, causing the gas and the traditional wells that retrieved the gas to work slower and less efficiently.
Dubois said the wells in place would produce 50 to 80 more years worth of gas, but it might be more of a cost to the companies.
"Unless you change the types of wells you're drilling, you won't get it out any faster," Dubois said. "You
The gas field has the potential of heating a home for 6 million years, he said, or 6 million homes for a year.
have to change something to produce gas more efficiently and economically"
Saibal Bhattacharya, petroleum engineer for the survey, helped with validating the reservoir model. He said a major achievement of the study was the discovery that two fields in the area weren't working independently of each other.
He said that for years, the Hugoton field and Panoma field were thought to work separately. This affected the Kansas Natural Resource Council's rules about wells and drilling. People who owned land in Hugoton could not profit from Panoma and vice versa. Bhattacharya said the survey's study showed that the two fields were interconnected.
Gas from each field was coming out of the other, causing a combined piping effect. The council created new rules according to the study, which changed the way people were allowed to drill.
Dubois said the 35 percent of gas still left could be anywhere from 1 trillion cubic feet of gas to 4 trillion. To put it in perspective, Dubois said during the winter a typical house used 15 million cubic feet of gas a month. This costs about $10, depending on the company.
Bhattacharya and the six coauthors of the report are compiling all data and information for a printed release next year.
"As a small group that we were, we pulled off this huge project," Bhattacharya said. "I'm not trying to pat myself on the back, but it didn't take 20 people to do this. It was a big task, and we were able to do it."
The co-authors include Geoffrey Bohling, Alan Byrnes, Timothy Carr and John Doveton, all scientists at the geological survey.
Ten industry gas companies provided the money for the research.
Kansan staff writer Danae DeShazer can be contacted at ddeshazer@ kansan.com.
— Edited by Mark Vierthaler
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