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Chaparral Energy to pipe CO2 to help extract Osage County oil (OK)
Tulsa World ^
| 12/26/12
| Rod Walton
Posted on 12/26/2012 8:44:18 AM PST by T-Bird45
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This oilfield is nearly 90 years old but will still be an asset for oil production for some time to come thanks to this investment re-using a by-product of agricultural fertilizer production. Thankfully, the writer does not accept AGW as gospel or settled science.
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posted on
12/26/2012 8:44:35 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
To: thackney
Ping — thought you might find this interesting. Hope your Christmas was great!
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posted on
12/26/2012 8:48:45 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: T-Bird45
About six months ago I realized that this is the end game in putting aside objections to both carbon dioxide and energy exploration. Once a viable technique has been developed to frack using CO2 on a mass scale, then there can be no remaining arguments against turning the US into the world’s largest energy producer.
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posted on
12/26/2012 8:57:30 AM PST
by
Go_Raiders
(The wrong smoke detector might just kill you - http://www.theworldfiresafetyfoundation.org)
To: T-Bird45
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posted on
12/26/2012 9:02:50 AM PST
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back The Sons of Liberty !!)
To: DTogo
A few minutes of web research should explain the difference between putting CO2 into an oil-producing formation about 3000’ deep and a lake in Africa that has become carbonated due to volcanic activity. Your research should also show that scientists placed a method to resolve this problem in 2001.
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posted on
12/26/2012 9:24:52 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: Go_Raiders
I hope that most people understand that co2 are air sans oxygen
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posted on
12/26/2012 9:31:26 AM PST
by
munin
To: T-Bird45
I grew up in Bartlesville and spent a lot time exploring Osage Hills State Park.
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posted on
12/26/2012 9:41:33 AM PST
by
SVTCobra03
(You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
To: Go_Raiders
to frack using CO2 Why would you think that fracturing using CO2 is a good idea?
Liquid is used to carry the sand. The sand is necessary to hold open the cracks after the fracturing fluid is removed. The fracturing fluid must be removed to allow the oil/gas to flow back out the well head.
Your method, if it could even work, does not sequester the CO2. It would come back out before the production would start. Methods of CO2 flood as described in this article have been used successfully in Texas for many years. CO2 flood leaves the CO2 in the reservoir.
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posted on
12/27/2012 6:13:25 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: T-Bird45; All
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posted on
12/27/2012 6:19:21 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: munin
Air has very little CO2. It is mostly nitrogen.
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posted on
12/27/2012 6:21:15 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: DTogo
The same geological seals which kept the oil and gas in the formation will confine the CO2. However, the re-pressurization of the reservoir will help displace and produce the oil and gas remaining in the reservoir rock. Because CO2 is inert, the process works. The
Great Plains Synfuels project has been pipelining CO2 to Canada for enhanced oil recovery for years.
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posted on
12/27/2012 6:45:12 AM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
To: thackney
Thanks for the link and the illustrations.
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posted on
12/27/2012 7:21:24 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: thackney
1. Liquid CO2 would carry sand just as easily as any other liquid.
2. CO2 can’t contaminate groundwater.
3. CO2 can be easily separated from the nat gas and reused.
4. Process would use far less water and produce far less liquid waste.
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posted on
12/27/2012 10:14:09 AM PST
by
Go_Raiders
(The wrong smoke detector might just kill you - http://www.theworldfiresafetyfoundation.org)
To: SVTCobra03
Did you ever jump into Sand Creek off the cliff?
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posted on
12/27/2012 10:25:19 AM PST
by
Osage Orange
( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
To: T-Bird45
I live in Osage country....and there’s quite a bit of drilling going on...of late.
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posted on
12/27/2012 10:28:56 AM PST
by
Osage Orange
( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
To: Osage Orange
Sorry, should have pinged you, too. I’m a former OS resident, graduated from Fairfax in 1973, mom passed in 2007 so I’ve not really spent any time there recently.
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posted on
12/27/2012 11:05:28 AM PST
by
T-Bird45
(It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
To: thackney
If you represented a volume of air with a 10,000 seat football stadium, CO2 molecules would be in only 3 seats.
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posted on
12/27/2012 11:09:35 AM PST
by
dennisw
(The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
To: T-Bird45
No worries....you don’t know me. And how could you know I live in Osage Country?
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posted on
12/27/2012 11:36:52 AM PST
by
Osage Orange
( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
To: dennisw
Good Gawd...what will the tree’s breathe????
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posted on
12/27/2012 11:38:25 AM PST
by
Osage Orange
( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
To: Osage Orange
Did you ever jump into Sand Creek off the cliff? No, but I camped out on Sand Creek as a Boy Scout.
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posted on
12/27/2012 11:41:20 AM PST
by
SVTCobra03
(You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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