Most of my life I’ve heard the cry,
of voices fearing liberty,
who’d trade the wheel for leash and tie,
and call it wise necessity.
They’d bind the road, confine the range,
regulate the miles you roam,
forget that freedom, vast and strange,
begins with choosing where is home.
They speak of limits, oil, and earth,
but seldom of the will to go—
for motion is the measure’s worth
of all the dreams that humans know.
So let me drive from coast to coast,
from sea to shining liberty;
the open highway is the host
that keeps the soul forever free.
Some sort of siren call with its irresistible appeal to the reading public.
Do people think that no one has ever in the past tried to increase recovery of oil in place?
For the time being, what AI does is read the internet in a hyper fast way in order to answer questions. If my question is how can I increase the recovery of oil in place the answer necessarily will be application of techniques currently already being applied.
There’s no magic. About the only magic you could suggest was applied in about 2009 when interest rates went to zero and that enabled shale to fracture. The loans became free and an oil could flow despite it being essentially at a loss. Well those loans are not free anymore and that’s more or less why the Permian guys think next year will be peak production.
The amusing method suggested in geology seminars for increasing the recovery of oil in place generally presumes the creation of a Star Trek style transporter that can beam The rock to the surface where it can be 100% pulverized and the liquid within obtained. And usually in the discussion it will be pointed out that with Star Trek style transporters you can move people from point a to point b without burning any gasoline and the whole thing becomes pointless.