Posted on 10/21/2007 6:54:22 PM PDT by blam
I’ve always wondered how different things would be if the bulk of the world’s oil wasn’t under the Middle East. My mom provided a good answer—the sand rats would still be sand rats, instead of filthy rich sand rats.
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Oil might break $100 very soon, then $150.
Where’s the data backing up this ‘claim’??????
We know where the oil is, our government will not let us get it.
It’s filed under Peak OIL.
We could be drilling our own if the democrats - and some republicans - weren’t communists.
There is plenty of oil.
The main problem are the NIMBies - the “not in my backyard” types - who obstruct any attempts at drilling. That showed up tonight after the Republican debate was over, when “Campaign Carl” Cameron interveiwed the Governor of Florida. The Gov said that Floridians don’t want drilling offshore of Florida’s coasts. Well, neither do the Californians, nor folks living on Alaska’s north slope. But that’s where our oil reserves are located.
It’s there. We just have to get it, that’s all.
Earlier it was assumed that the formation of oil and gas was related to temperature. The new discovery is that temperature decides where most of the lighter oil and gas is trapped in the reservoirs.
Key-rap! The influence of temperature on oil maturation has long been understood. And so has the importance of the source rock, the cap rocks, and the porosity and permeability of the reservoir rocks.
It doesn't matter if your rocks are hot between 60 to 120 C if your reservoir rocks are impermeable and the porosity is very low. These Norwegians need to study in Texas so they might know what they're talking about.
Amazing no one noticed the correlation between temperature and oil before this.
Press Releases can be notorously bad.
If you really wan to understand a scientific claim, you have to rea the scientific paper. Virtually none of which are posted on FR, or read by people taking potshots at scientists.
I knew a man named Clarence Brown that could find the depth of oil reserves any where in the world while sitting in a coffee shop in Glendale Calif.
Yeah, heavy oil, like all the oil in the US. Now, we’re not supposed to use it because it’s more difficult to refine. What will the next excuse be?
If you really wan[sic] to understand a scientific claim, you have to rea[sic] the scientific[sic] paper. Virtually none of which are posted on FR, or read by people taking potshots at scientists.
Obviously you are as learned in petroleum exploration as you are in spelling and grammer.
My Dad knew this fifty years ago. He drilled hundreds of wells betweem 1920 and 1940, in fields from LA to NM.
Kudos to your father, he must have been one of the old great wildcatters. He probably did most of his drilling with the old cable tool rigs.
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