Potential oil supply refill?

Washington Times ^ | 5/29/02 | Bruce Bartlett

[kattracks]

On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed.

[Dog Gone]

The core, last I checked, is too far down and too hot to reach with a conventional drill bit. Consequently, it's unlikely to be explored except in the realm of SciFi in the near future.

It's a good thing, too. Successfully drilling to those depths would result in the world's first man-made volcano.

[leadpenny]

Does this mean that more dinosaurs died for us than the experts originally thought?

I love this story.

[steve-b]

But then where does all the excess hydrogen go? Why aren't we seeing a lot of free hydrogen in gas wells?

[blam]

"There was an article on FR about a new theory on oil not too long ago. "

Thanks. I saw that article too but, don't have it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

No one has mentioned methane hydrides yet.
The Possible cause of the Bermuda Triangle's mysterys .

Hydrates and Climate Change

This contained references also.

Vast Energy Resource Locked Below Ocean Floor

Excellent Graphics still work with this last article and has many good imbedded links.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

methane hydrates = methane hydrides

[Dog Gone]

Don't get too excited by it. Most oil fields do not recharge, and the few that do can be explained by existing geological theories.

If this theory was true, you could find oil just about everywhere, and there wouldn't be many exploratory dry holes. However, the actual success rate, even with the improved technology for finding oil, is only about 12%.

In any event, we're clearly using oil faster than it's being created and we're forced to look in places where we've never been able to look before.

[backhoe]

I'll stick those links in the DUBOB update- that is very interesting!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

DUBOB update?

I know I should know, ....but ... could you remind me!

[leadpenny]

I was just listening to Rush while in the car. A person might have predicted that he would have made this letter Item #1 today. Some geologist from Texas called in and supported the contents of the letter. I was always told as a kid that dinosaurs gave up there lives so we could drive fast cars. This fellow said that oil is being produced, "As we speak". He also said it comes not from dinosaurs but 'Crushed Asians' Why just Asians and where do they crush all of them? :)

[backhoe]

Didn't mean to "code-talk!"--

-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....--

[Dog Gone]

'Crushed Asians'

BWAAAAAAA! I suppose all my geologist buddies have heard that one before, but that's new to me. LOL.