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To: Kickass Conservative

I’m a petroleum geologist I still 5 rigs at a time in unconventional shale in 3 different basins. We do not have 400 years of oil reserves left. Even maxed oit with tertiary recovery technology we have maybe 150 years at most that’s including tar sands , heavy oil & bitumen but not kerogen which is not oil but “oil shale” as opposed to shale oil. Kerogen such as the green river formation needs to be heated to 400+C to be cooked into liquid hydrocarbons it’s very expensive and very resources intensive the EROI is barely positive in some cases.


12 posted on 10/27/2020 12:34:45 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici")
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To: JD_UTDallas
we have maybe 150 years at most

That's good, 150 years ago the car was invented so I imagine in the next 150 years we have time to invent the replacement. 1886: Karl Benz invents the first petrol or gasoline powered auto-mobile (car).

13 posted on 10/27/2020 12:39:24 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (FILL THE SEAT)
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