Alex Epstein says it nicely in his 2 page summary found here:
http://industrialprogress.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/MCFF-Handout-20160714.pdf
They may not be fossil fuel. How come we are finding oil 8,000 feet down in
the gulf of Mexico. The Russians think oil can be made under high
temperature
and pressure from a certain kinds of rock. Why have we not run out of
dead dinosaurs yet :-)
We keep finding more and more oil.
Paul Lamar
Actually some of the Russian wells are over two miles deep, not
sure if the dinosaurs we ever that far down. I can't remember the
source,but they called it abiotic oil, due the complete lack of an
organic components, and the extreme depth it was found rules out any
biological source. They also stated that oil is a natural byproduct of
processes deep in the earth. The "oil is from dinosaurs and is limited"
likely came from the first sources of oil studies, places like the la
Brea tar pits that had preserved cacasses in it .
I live in Oklahoma where the oil fields are very active, and have
seen several wells that were tapped out ten to twenty years ago and were
just capped off as having been completely drained, yet have been
reopened because, upon checking them, lo and behold, the wells not only
had oil, but were full!
Rob Miller
In Alberta the regulations kept drilling down to one well per quarter
section. Then it was determined that oil and gas do not move very far in
the geologic structure. Now they can drill on each of four quarters of a
quarter section; NW, SW, NE and SE. Also common now is directional
drilling whereby they go horizontal in the formation and the do
multistage fracs. They can do something like 25 fracs to get production
and recovery up.
In Alberta, Turner Valley was the first oilfield found and developed.
Rotary drills had not been invented when the first holes were punched.
At that time a coal fired steam engine was used to lift a heavy weight
with a pointed end. When it got to the top of the wood derrick the
clutch was released and the weight punched down a little. When they got
close to the oil bearing formation, gas would start coming up the well.
They would then run a pipe to the boiler and not have to keep throwing
coal into it. Needless to say now and then too much gas would come up
and ignite in the boiler which would burn the rig down.
Turner Valley gas field was sour and prior to WW2 there was no market
for the gas, so it was flared off. The town did not need street lights
into the 1950's due to the light from the flare. Even into the early
1950's the light could be seen from Calgary which was 40 miles away.
Eventually the down hole pressure was gone and the field was pretty much
shut in, in the '70's. They have recently been able to start production
again and redrill old wells with horizontal drilling to get production up.
The gas can move in the porous structure better than oil so it takes
time. Prior to WW2 they were primarily interested in the oil for the
coming war effort.
Wells in the central Alberta area of Lodgepole had high pressure sour
gas. One blew out and ran wild for over a month. BOP's were built
different then and they had trouble with the pinched off pipe. They
thought they could open the BOP's and the pipe would fall down the well.
The pipe was blown out of the well like cooked spaghetti. Wells in that
area are 10 to 12 inch pipe with 2500 flanges on the bolted connection.
They are good for double to triple that pressure in PSI. At that well,
three men were killed by hydrogen sulphide poisoning trying to get it
under control. The temperatures that time were -30 to -35°F so guys
would work without gas masks on the upwind side due to the face shield
fogging up. If a wind gust changed at the H2S content you were down and
pretty much dead. The death count at that well is now about 13.
Dale Davies
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