As long as its economically viable. On Russia's Kola Peninsula, near the Norwegian border at about the same latitude as Prudhoe Bay, the Soviets have been drilling a well since 1970. Drilling usually would continue into the night, illuminated by two-wicked yellow dog lanterns. People-Focused Other plates have been, and still are, doing so. John Livingston Grandin dug his well nearby using a simple spring pole but soon wedged his iron chisel downhole. Fingernails can grow a lot in 4,500,000,000 years. Or at least, such is my understanding, in a nutshell. The overriding factor is economics which is frighteningly skewed today in the world of wind and solar. But this still needs subduction because the carbonates had to get there somehow. True vertical depth is how deep the well was drilled. Cost me his lunch at the MIT faculty cafeteria, plus a couple of months of rewrite to respond to his many pointed comments. The most slots on a TLP (tension leg platform) is 32 on the Auger A facility on Garden Banks 426 in 2,860 WD. The Bakken formation lies between 4500 ft. to 11,000 ft. with the Three Forks formation below it. In an inert environment, aromatics, naphthenes and paraffins can be stable up to 1000F or even higher. I could spend 2 Btu of natural gas to produce 1 Btu of oil and make over a 2:1 return on capital. (and the stress creates, among other things, the San Andreas Fault, the Sierra Madrea, and the Rockies). I dont give a rats @$$ if 1 barrel of amoeba farts uses less energy to produce than 1 barrel of crude oil Because the barrel of amoeba farts costs $1,100 and cant be produced in sufficient quantities to be waiting for me at the Chevron, Texaco, Exxon or Shell station when I need it. Hey..this sciency stuff is way too complicated but impresses the heck out of the Arts major who put it together. In. Since that strain was always to the left, the die gradually cut a thread in the stuck cable tool. If you believe that water fills the pore space, how could you also think this? Am I still allowed to use a lighter to light my cigarette or do I need to go back to matches? Mrs. Bertha Mary Rogers of South Boston, VA died Thursday, December 1st at the age of 82. Horizontal wells drilled to tap poor quality rocks have to be designed considering the possible use of artificial lift equipment, and this imposes restrictions on the well radius of curvature and other issues. U.S. petroleum history provides a context for understanding how to meet Americas future energy needs. I think they are dangerous when not clearly marked as primarily wild eyed guesswork. The American Oil & Gas Historical Society preserves U.S. petroleum history. The oil migrated upward from deeper Mesozoic and Lower Tertiary source rocks. They are registered with several professional bodies, including the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the British Psychological Society (BPS), as well as, BACP, UKCP and BABCP. Become an AOGHS supporting member and help maintain this energy education website and expand historical research. If buried deep enough the sulfur will undoubtedly melt naturally. Dataset Reference Date 1972-12-30. Excellence-Driven Youve gotta wonder how high they were when they made that graphic. Until the 1960s,few companies couldrisk millions of dollars and push rotary rig drilling technology to reach beyondthe 13,000-foot level in what geologists called the deep gas play.. Did the oil form directly under the sands and rock of the peninsula strictly due to sedimentation? Union competes in NCAA DII and the Gulf South Conference. The plate that North America sits on includes some sections that are very old, and some that are brand spanking new, and everything in between. Why did he want the label for oil,,, Because he knows how to make money, make appear that there is a limited supply, thus creating a monopoly and controlling the price.. Do your own research on whether Oil comes from plant matter, etc. Sulfur melts at about 116 C, which is not all that hot, so why did the bit melt, or was that misinformation? including Medicare and Medicaid. A 1974 souvenir of the Bertha Roger No. Walker Ridge 758 Chevron #1 is the deepest active oil producer in the Gulf of Mexico; drilled to a true vertical depth (TVD) of 28,497 (8.7 km) in a water depth of 6,959. You had to stand spraddle-legged all the time to prevent getting your foot/ankle being cut off when the tripple fell and hit the derrick floor. The great expense and technological expertise necessary to complete gas wells at these depths has made the Anadarko Basin the domain of the major petroleum corporations, and at the close of the twentieth century . It's especially expensive when you factor in all of the cost of deep-bore oil extraction, including the energy expended to do it and the amount of contaminated process water. It is also deeper than Mount Everest is tall, at 29,000 feet. URL: https://aoghs.org/petroleum-art/high-flying-trademark. Oil does not come from plants and dinosaurs at 40,000 feet. Algae and phytoplankton arent dinosaurs and are not exactly plants either. This includes individual articles (copyright to OHS by author assignment) and corporately (as a complete body of work), including web design, graphics, searching functions, and listing/browsing methods. I can sort of understand the use of abiotic. But, dinosaurs implies that there isnt even a starting point for communication. That first map chart showing highest clouds at 29,000 feet is ridiculously wrong, as I am sure most people here know. Nothing contained on the Web site shall be considered a recommendation, solicitation, or offer to buy or sell a security to any person in any jurisdiction. (I know. .. . Run of the mill T-storms are higher than this. Since then, numerous gas wells have been drilled there below the twenty thousand foot range, including the Lone Star Bertha Rogers in Beckham County. Office of the World Energy Resources Program. Maybe slang isnt the right word, but its obviously a shorthand or informal way of referring to molecular breakdown. As I too get older and my kids are growing up, this is a key question. Consequently, in other places, oceanic crust plunges down into the mantle and is recycled. Among the deepest wells in the world have been the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a 1989 experimental well drilled the Soviet Union. Several different times for some of these rocks. If the oldest oil sampled is not much beyond 400 million years age (~start of Carboniferous period), I believe that would be the nail in the coffin for the abiotic theory of oil. In 1966 funds ran out and the project closed. The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming, invaluable Steven F. Hayward, The Weekly Standard, changed the world and is one of the most influential resources on global warming. Copyright to all of these materials is protected under United States and International law. As I think the author hints,, don't become too infatuated with the technology because it's expensive. Wow! No doubt We have a Sinclair dino sign on the fence in our driveway and about a dozen inflatable Sinclair dinos I always pick a couple up at Sinclairs booth at NAPE. Sometimes many inches, sometimes barely moving, or just sitting mostly still, or spinning. Chayvo Field, Sakhalin Island, Russia: Identification of a Significant Oil Leg From 3D Seismic and Execution of a World-Class Extended-Reach-Drilling Program. In spite of Arrhenius misunderstanding of Fourier, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (11th Edition) reflects his initial opening description of the Greenhouse Effect: The most on a shelf fixed platform is 60 on Grand Isle 17 in 55 water depth. Societies dont produce energy, businesses do. The presence or lack of 14C can also be indicative of the age. During drilling, the well encountered enormous pressure almost 25,000 psi (172,369 kPa). There are some very interesting videos of large storms on you tube. 500+ million years of subsidence and uplift resulted in the Devonian-aged (~360 Ma) Bakken formation (green/yellow layer) being at depths ranging from about -4,500 to -8,500 below sea level. It required about eight hours for bottom hole cuttings to reach the surface almost six miles above. The drilling was started October 25, 1972 and it took Lone Star a little over a year and a half to reach 31,441 feet (9,583 m) on April 13, 1974. In a note of totally unrelated trivia: Lone Star Producing became . Id hate to be pulling slips on that rig. The great expense and technological expertise necessary to complete gas wells at these depths has made the Anadarko Basin the domain of the major petroleum corporations, and at the close of the twentieth century this vast Oklahoma region was the most prolific gas-producing area in the nation. For all the media misunderstanding surrounding them, the Chayvo wells - all but one of them record-breakers in total measured depth - are evidence of a trend that we are already seeing across the world. It led to far deeper wells. For 20th Centurys final quarter the Basin remains the frontier of deep drilling technology centered on Elk City, Deep Gas Capital of the World. New patients are welcome. The most slots on a Spar platform is 20 on the Genesis A facility on Green Canyon 205 in 2,590 WD and on the Holstein A facility on Green Canyon 645 in 4,340 WD. Were sticking needles deep into Mother GAIA!!!! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry_flight. Something written to stop the scientific examination of the paradox observations. By the early 1900s, rotary drilling introduced the hollow drill stem that enabled broken rock debris to be washed out of the borehole. Was it pure sulfur? Tabular salt acts like a radiator. Its hard to believe there has been that much vertical movement in Earths surface (i.e., two miles subduction) over the last several hundred thousand to several hundred million years. Searching for oil was less an earth science and more an art in the exploration and production industrys earliest days. [4], Oil-exploratory borehole in Washita County, Oklahoma, United States, "Summary of Deep Oil and Gas Wells and Reservoirs in the U.S.", "Oklahoma Corporation Commission completion report (form 1002A) dated September 3, 1974", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bertha_Rogers&oldid=1071960965, Buildings and structures in Washita County, Oklahoma, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 15 February 2022, at 07:42. My company doesnt drill for oil & gas to make energy. Kenny A. Franks, The Oklahoma Petroleum Industry (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980). Its where the oil formed; not when it formed or where it was produced. OH NO!!!! On Russia's Kola Peninsula, near the Norwegian border at about the same latitude as Prudhoe Bay, the Soviets have been drilling a well since 1970. Research genealogy for Bertha Rogers of Broken Hill, NSW, Australia, as well as other members of the Rogers family, on Ancestry. This article takes us on a very interesting walk-about below ground. In the foreground of the photograph below, the large wheel at right (with small, square hub) received the uppermost part of a fishing pole. More than 500 of her poems have been published in literary journals, and she had received eight nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Unfortunately, not all news sources on the internet are familiar with it, so if you Google the worlds deepest oil field, the top results will tell you its either the O-14 or one of its Chayvo predecessors. Long wells arent deep wells. The referenced well being about 30,000 shy of 40,000 deep didnt exactly help the narrative . I spend money to fill my gas tank. Amazing would be more aptif only this depth were true. A 19th century cable-tool rig, like its ancient predecessor the spring pole, utilized percussion drilling the repeated lifting and dropping of a heavy chisel using hemp ropes. Methane isnt oil. The deepest hole by far is one on the Kola Peninsula in Russia near Murmansk, referred to as the "Kola well." The Bakken shale members were deposited in a shallow marine environment under anoxic conditions. While they do not appear to based on directly dating the hydrocarbons, the geological strata referenced and those strata in which hydrocarbons have NOT been found in any significant quantity does, to me, seem to rule out the abiotic oil theory on the following grounds: Now I hear they are leasing drilling beneath the gas pay zones. Each are well described, extensively supported, and largely uncontroversial, at least as regards the big picture. Unfortunately, at this depth the. There is some technical speculation/research that a portion of earths crust melted when the planet type body hit earth and formed the moon. We were using Black Magic as the drill fluid which made the drill floor slippery as fresh owl defecate. "Anadarko Basin," Vertical File, Research Division, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City. The Lone Star Producing Bertha Rogers was a dry hole, drilled near Sayer OK, but the Deep Anadarko Basin has some the deepest productive gas wells in the world. Bertha Rogers Executive Director at Bright Hill Press Inc Treadwell, New York, United States 500+ connections The longest well, Z-42, established records for MD (12,700 m) and horizontal reach (11,739 m). I worked for Enserch from 1981-1997. . Just a word of real thanks to David Middleton for this and other postings relating to the technicals of the oil industry. The ultra-deepwater Lower Tertiary oil discoveries are well within the oil window. My thought would be that the molten sulfur was either gaseous or liquid hydrogen sulfide or even sulfur dioxide. Blasphemy! Add in lazy research and their products are bad jokes. I was not aware Larry had launched a new extreme sports craze, although it seemed to be a more recent development. The average bottom hole temperature of those ten 20 million barrel producers was 197F. Its not subduction. Sorry if this was OT. Photo by Bruce Wells. Roughnecking jobs today are for sissies and weaklings. This is perhaps the most geologically ignorant sentence I have ever read I especially like how they depict it as soil the entire way down. The measured depth (MD) of the worlds deepest oil well is over 40,000. These natural waves allow us to see inside the Earth as they react to various layers, much as x-rays or MRIs allow us to view inside the human body. It fits perfectly with the point of the article. Geologists knew far more about finding coal seams than characteristics of oil-bearing formations. This quote from Arrhenius establishes the fact that the Greenhouse Effect, far from being a misnomer, is so-called because it was originally based on the assumption that an atmosphere and the glass of a greenhouse are the same in their workings. In 1926, British geophysicist Harold Jeffreys proposed that this transition zone within the crust, identifiable on seismic records around most of the world as a "jump" in seismic velocity, could be attributed to a change in rock type from granite to a denser "basement" of basalt (basalts can be seen at the surface when they emerge as lava flows). This process requires high temperatures and high pressure.[1]. https://geology.com/articles/horizontal-drilling/. Organic geochemical analyses of fine-grained rocks from the 9.590 km Bertha Rogers No. On top of the range there is a strange, flat plateau. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/11/another-failed-energy-prediction-peak-oil-demand/, Subduction and burial (i.e., sedimentation) are two completely different processes. Although, it remained the deepest hole on the planet for five years. It reached 40,230 feet deep. Heres a cross section of the Williston Basin in North Dakota. indicates a global average ocean sedimentation rate of about 5 meters per million years, with a range of 1 to 11 m/Ma covering all the worlds oceans. Just four days after the August 27, 1859, first U.S. oil discovery by Edwin L. Drake in Pennsylvanias valley that changed the world, a far less known oil industry pioneer began Americas second well to be drilled for petroleum. I would wager that more is being mined right at the surface today than at any point in history again, its technology and economics, not being forced to look elsewhere. Drilling time and depth improved with the addition of steam power and tall, wooden derricks. Subscribe Now, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program. The drilling was started October 25, 1972 and it took Lone Star a little over a year and a half to reach 31,441 feet (9,583 m) on April 13, 1974. Seabird deaths part of Arctic Report Card, Ancient moose antlers hint of early arrival. WWS, what you describe as the subduction of the Pacific plate is actually a much more complicated situation, involving a series of plates and faults and features being subducted, and also accreted onto, and sliding past, the North American plate. Dr. Bertha Alarcon Vargas, DDS, is a General Dentistry specialist practicing in Pomona, CA with 33 years of experience. The well at Chayvo is, according to the infographic, also deeper than the world record for a hot-air balloon flight: 21,000 feet. The bottom line isnt denominated in joules, watts or Btu Its denominated in $$$. 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Describing cable tool operations, he explained that the basic principle of well fishing tools often involved milled wedges on a spear or in a cylinder for recovering lost tubing or casing. Start Trading CFDs Over 2,200 Different Instruments, Ukraine Calls On Western Allies To Approve Delivery Of Advanced Weaponry. The Lone Star Producing Company 127 Bertha Rogers hole or well was an oil-exploratory hole drilled in Washita County, Oklahoma in 1974, and was the world's deepest hole[2] until it was surpassed in 1979 by the Kola Superdeep Borehole, dug by the USSR. John L. Grandin attempted to recover a lost drill bit at his 1859 well near Tidioute, Pennsylvania. Australias Green Transition Energy Price Caps are Causing Supply Side Chaos, ESG Check in: More details on the Securities & Exchange Commissions Activist Role in the Whole of Government Push on ESG, Climate Risk Disclosure, Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #536. I have a little desk plaque with two pockets one containing sulfur crystals and the other with rock cuttings from the Bertha Rogers Well. Funny how the same people do not object to the blight of windmills covering the landscape or the concrete pads they are sited on being dug into pristine terrain. According to Lone Star Producing Company, the bottom hole pressure and temperature were an estimated 24,850 pounds per square inch and 475 degrees Fahrenheit respectively. The newest well at Chayvo extends deeper into the ground than planes can fly in the air. Fred Pearce The Climate Files: At 31,441 feet, the Bertha Rogers well held a record at the turn of the twenty-first century as the world's deepest producing well. If you insist I am sure you will find yourself in a basement wearing a Sinclair shirt, and theyll keep you watching videos made by geologists to make you believe oil comes from dead dinosaurs until you are left an empty husk who whispers source rock and TOC all day long. Dating methods include vitranite reflectance and 13C isotope ratios in diamondoids (which arent diamonds). At 31,441 feet, the Bertha Rogers well held a record at the turn of the twenty-first century as the world's deepest producing well. Beginning in the late 1950s, when technological advance allowed it, Anadarko Basin wells began to be drilled below the thirteen-thousand-foot level in what geologists call "the deep gas play." BPs Tiber discovery on Keathley Canyon Block 102 logged oil pay below 30,000 TVD. Sixty years ago, I worked as a floor hand on daylights when the worlds deepest well hit the bottom at 24,0002 feet in dark gray Hunton shale. The Cenozoic section, alone, is more than 40,000 thick in places. Are the only acceptable fuels for people are the things they eat but not the fuel that powers machines used to help grow and harvest what people eat? , In petrochemistry, petroleum geology and organic chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or long-chain hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons, by the breaking of carbon-carbon bonds in the precursors. 1 barrel of crude oil = 5,722,000 Btu Any place where materials from uphill are deposited becomes a sediment. https://wordpress.com/post/debunkhouse.wordpress.com/6995 As one of my keepsakes I have very bottom 3 inches of the the 2 inch core. I think the question is not subduction, but the vertical extent of sedimentation, no? Greenhouse Effect noun the trapping of the suns warmth in the planets lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planets surface. https://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Disciplines/Drilling.aspx. This is almost impossible to explain to a freshman geology student, much less people with no understanding of geology. The bottom hole temperature was 226 F. But also keep in mind that the places where oil and gas are recovered are not the source of the material, but simply a place where the right conditions exist to trap a large amount of it as it percolates upwards . Maybe these guys are opposed to people producing heat of any kind? In October 1982, the first hole reached 11,662 metres (38,261 ft), [5] and the second hole was started in January 1983 from a 9,300 metres (30,500 ft) depth of the first hole. The downhole tool assemblies could no longer be lifted and dropped. al. There is also a record-breaker in terms of water depth: Maersk Drillings Raya-1 well offshore Uruguay was drilled in water depths of 3,400 meters or 11,156 feet. My interest was in meteorology. It was March 1974 and the enormous investment of Lone Star Producing Company of Dallas, and partner GHK Company of Oklahoma City, was about to be lost. For now, the deepest man-made hole in North America is the Bertha Rogers oil well in Oklahoma. The maximum bottom hole temperature (213F) was encountered in the Mississippi Canyon (MC) 777 TF001 well, drilled by BP. In 2011, a 40,502-foot well was drilled offshore of the Russian island of Sakhalin. This is a strawman written to knock down. . Cracking in solids is essentially the same as the cracking of long chain hydrocarbons. I know where oil does not come from, plants and dinosaurs at 40,000 feet. Unfortunately, at this depth the drillers struck liquid sulfur, which put an end to plans to continue drilling. Its About the Boredom of theBourgeoisie, Urbanization Effects on GHCN Temperature Trends, Part I: The Urbanization Characteristics of the GHCN Stations, Why Climate Skepticism Has Not Yet Succeeded, Surprise! On Russia's Kola Peninsula, near the Norwegian border at about the same latitude as Prudhoe Bay, the Soviets have been drilling a well since 1970. Individuals should consider whether they can afford the risks associated to trading. Get to know us - Dr Bertha Rogers At our practice in Oxford Circus (W1W), all of our therapists are qualified psychologists, psychotherapists or counsellors. The guy had style though: He shot himself through the heart, not the head. I honestly want to know: Are you happier for having this halcyon memory, or sadder because you cant do things like that anymore? Uplift occurs by any of several mechanisms. Its in Russia, off Sakhalin Island and it extends 15 km or 49,000 feet into the ground. In rotary drilling, the only tools ordinarily used in the well are the drill pipe and bits, Day noted, adding that the rotary fishing tools, were comparatively free from the complexities of cable-tool work.. That guy was brave. They couldnt drill any deeper, the well was unstable They shouldnt have drilled that deep. Probably not. Oil is a mixture of complex hydrocarbons: alkanes (parafins), napthenes, aromatics and asphaltenes in highly variable ratios. We might see some day a well whose true vertical depth is indeed almost 50,000 feet. Looking a little more closely, it seems perhaps Fuel Fighter, or whoever made that graphic, may have not known the difference between feet and meters. Its not a matter of ruling out abiotic oil. The Tiber wells depth - true vertical depth - was more than 35,000 feet. Ive drilled wells deeper than 20,000 in the Gulf of Mexico. No. The Deep Anadarko Basin of Western Oklahoma is one of the most prolific gas provinces of North America. 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