Posted on 01/31/2018 2:45:58 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
Chevron Corporation announced Wednesday that a major oil discovery has been made at the Ballymore prospect, located deep offshore in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The Ballymore well reached a total measured depth of 29,194 feet and encountered more than 670 feet of net oil pay with excellent reservoir and fluid characteristics, Chevron said in a statement on its website. A sidetrack well is currently being drilled to further assess the discovery, which is already deemed commercially viable.
The Gulf of Mexico deepwater is an integral part of our companys long-term strategy, Jeff Shellebarger, president of Chevron North America Exploration and Production, said in a company statement.
This discovery is an important addition to our portfolio, especially with its combination of size, quality and proximity to existing infrastructure, he added.
Located approximately three miles from Chevrons Blind Faith platform, the Ballymore prospect is situated in water depth of about 6,540 feet, 75 miles from the Louisiana coast, and covers four blocks in the Norphlet play.
Total, which acquired a 40 percent working interest in Ballymore as part of an exploration agreement with Chevron signed in September 2017, said it was thrilled to reveal its latest find.
I tell you Peak Oil is coming, / S
I can barely remember it.
It’s global warming back to the early days of Bush II.
Oil is abiogenic in origin IMO. I know that makes me sound like a kook but there is no other explanation. How did oil get embedded NORTH of Alaska? Dinos lived in lush tree filled jungles. There were no jungle that far north in Pangaea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyFj5ygqvd4 Oil is Not a Fossil Fuel! The Real Science of Abiotic Oil and Serpentinization
Blows my mind that they can drop a drill 6400’ to the sea floor and bore a hole 29,000’.
“How did dinosaur and fauna remains get to that depth to create oil?”
Okay, for the umpteenth time, OIL DOES NOT COME FROM DINOSAURS! Sheesh.
And explain hydrocarbons on Titan...
actually it does “more than 670 feet of net oil pay”. is a hell of a lot of pay dirt.
See! Global warming exists, it made the crust rise! /s
(I would sooner believe the Earth is fattening than in global warming.) I also believe the Earth replenishes oil supplies, from deep below.
There are different kinds of hydrocarbons. The hydrocarbons on Titan arent coal, oil or natural gas.
LOL! Exactly the right question.
Didn’t you know? Oil is not made by fossils. It is made by pressurized vegetation matter, the same way it’s made in a laboratory.
Big oil has been hoaxing us for decades. Oil wells eventually refill themselves. The Russians know it’s abiotic oil, too.
Big oil has been hoaxing u$.
OIL IS A RENEWABLE RESOURCE. http://www.viewzone.com/abioticoilx.html
It’s so obvious oil is abiotic and renewable.
Oil companies been hoaxing us out of trillions of dollars for decades with the fossil fuel lie.
Hope Trump is man enough to fight junk science, i.e. fossils crap.
Total Energy is French owned.
Two people can't keep a secret so are how can 10,000 people? They can't.
Petroleum is certainly renewable in the form of saltwater algae grown on the open ocean. The abiotic theory would be useful if it helped find new legacy oil deposits, but it doesn't. Who really cares where it came from? Petroleum is mainly found below where saltwater algae once lived. Coal is found where trees once lived.
LOL, what? You’re saying a multinational company wouldn’t try to keep an economic secret from the public because, literally, trillions of dollars are at stake?
Please grow up.
Abiotic oil is actual science. Big oil has been hoaxing us out of trillions for decades. Disprove the science, (and then quit being a coincidence theorist).
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