Signifigant Secondary Oil Recovery Report

TheAntiDoomer · Tar Sands Joined: Jun 18, 2008 Posts: 23

Cashmere · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Mar 27, 2008 Posts: 1971

323 million barrels?

Are you serious?

And this, to you, is an "enormous development"?

Let me help you with a little math . . .

323 million barrels for the whole field divided by U.S. usage of 20.6 million barrels per day is . . .

15.6 days of U.S. usage.

Is your ____________ enormous in this way as well?
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TheAntiDoomer · Tar Sands Joined: Jun 18, 2008 Posts: 23

Dude, this field is ONE example!!!! In this example a field that would normally yeild 2 million barrels can yield over 200 million barrels. Now apply this tech to the thousand of fields on the planet. Geesh, that wasn't so hard was it?
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TheDude

It seems to be SAGD applied to conventional reservoirs. This obviously will only be applicable to very shallow fields. Note that they've only identified 250 in the US to apply this technique to. If I read this right that's 323 mb divided amongst the 5 fields in their acreage, too. Why they don't just drill horizontal wells and hydrofrac is another question - probably they're coming from the conventional mining industry and this is what they're good at. Roc or ROCK perhaps know more about this outfit.

Rock Well
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Nicholai

TAD, you're so right! I mean, the waiting list for offshore oil rigs is only 25 years! It only takes 10 years to get any major oil production out of a well, and by that time oil should only be at $500 a barrel. Man if I were you, I wouldn't be going to any ecovillages any time soon...you're going to be just fine Wink

KevO · Expert Joined: May 24, 2005 Posts: 2358

basil_hayden

Let me get this straight, excuse the imperfect analogy.

Now we're proposing to pick apples by drilling under the tree, through the center of the trunk and branches, so the apples can roll down to the bottom of our trunk hole where we can pump the apples to the store?

Sounds like apple sauce to me, not apples.

KingM

KingM

Of course, the production by 2020 is supposed to be 20,000 barrels per day. Increase that by 100 fold and then we'll talk.

eXpat · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jun 08, 2006 Posts: 973

Plantagenet

Its a nice idea, but does it actually work?

There isn't much info on the company's website except some curious pictures of mine shafts, none of which show any oil dripping in from the ceiling.

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killJOY · Fission Joined: Feb 21, 2005 Posts: 2481 Location: ^NNE^

Nice. Interesting development. I wish them luck.

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I'm still growing my own food.
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