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To: bestintxas
I get your point. If the source rock in the reservoir is still producing oil, I guess you could call that "recharging" (or maybe 'still charging'), but for practical purposes it won't cause changes in oil content significant enough to extend production.

Will that increase reservoir pressure? (unlikely, at least in the time it takes to do humans any good).

If a stratified reservoir which was produced too rapidly re-stratifies (the cone-ins level out), that might appear as if it has recharged but actually, there isn't any new oil to speak of, it is simply rearranged in respect to existing well bores.

99 posted on 11/06/2015 7:10:31 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

I an an engineer but have worked a lot around geologists and I now appreciate the wondrous world of geologic time which is something to behold.


104 posted on 11/06/2015 7:18:01 AM PST by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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