Posted on 03/19/2012 6:58:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Then again, perhaps there could be some sort of natural “reversal” that happens (just wildly speculating here), since in the lab, it is possible to make liquid petroleum products out of natural gas.
There are subduction zones nearby but the fields are several miles away. I tried to google a map to show this but they weren’t very clear. The subduction zones would be the big deep trenches.
That is what is meant by LNG (liquified natural gas.) It is a function of pressure. Since there is no market, much of the natural gas in the Middle East is liquified and sent to Europe or the Far East.
Hi, SAF:
This would be sweet!
I am patiently waiting for my old tired stripper wells to recharge with abodic oil. :-)
Earth and Titan are 2 giant meth labs
Some one may have fraced an offset well and it opened up a new zone of higher permeability for the old well to tap into. It happens all the time. Fracs tend to go out several hundred feet from the wellbore. In lower permeability reservoirs, much of the oil (up to 80% in some of the crappier ones) is left behind because of a loss of reservoir drive (pressure.) If it were that simple, we would never have to drill another well again. Just wait for the Oil Fairy to release a new batch of crude.
Where’s the beef?
Rush had a caller within the last year who works in the energy business - can’t remember if it was nuclear or oil - but I remember him saying that recent scientific studies are now leaning towards the idea that it is a thermonuclear process happening at the earth’s core and that the by-product is oil that rises to the top.
Someone may have also started a water flood nearby where they pump salt water into the edge of the reservoir to push oil towards the producing wells. That is a very common practice.
Old wells won't refill, but new ones will form. In a hundred million years or so, today's organic rich sediment will be new oil fields.
The problem is, we use it far, far faster than it forms. If it was forming at the rate we are using it, and doing so for the past few hundred million years, the oil layer would encircle the whole earth several miles thick. We've done this math more than once at Free Republic.
Thank you for posting this. It is a re-hash of an old article, but it is very relevent now. I was trying to find that old article, but have not had any success.
Actually, LNG requires cooling, not pressure. It is below the critical temperature of methane. It can not be compressed into liquid anywhere near ambient temperatures.
And the 260 million figure could be off by 20-50 million.
PV=znRT. Decrease temperature and you decrease pressure, at least so I have heard.
I’ll admit. I know very little about the LNG business.
This same article was posted last night and all of the Thomas Gold “oil is coming from the mantle or core or asthenosphere or the Oil Fairy) groupies came out of the woodwork with the usual links to the Russian well on the Kola Penisula.
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