Wells. In Fairbanks, our Troth Yeddha' Campus is located on the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River. The short answer is no, because there is one little catch: directional drilling. Producible oil doesnt exist below the oil window, only gas. Just a word of real thanks to David Middleton for this and other postings relating to the technicals of the oil industry. . And the ones over the ITCZ in the deep tropics can be 80,000. We would all like to know what is inside the Earth. The measured depth (MD) of the worlds deepest oil well is over 40,000. Become an AOGHS supporting member and help maintain this energy education website and expand historical research. 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.. thats far short of the stated 3350 m (11,000 foot) true depth discovery of oil that I referenced. Ill just keep drinking and reading. Denver, Colo : U.S. Dept. In the foreground of the photograph below, the large wheel at right (with small, square hub) received the uppermost part of a fishing pole. While several of the media reports and the Fuel Fix infographic allude to drilling sideways or extended-reach, they all seem omit the word vertical. And all of them leave the reader with the impression that this is the deepest oil well ever drilled. My name is Bertha Martinez-Carmona and I am here to help you find YOUR home and listen to your needs to best assist you! The deeper you drill, the greater both the pressure and the resistance. It is really easy to look up the geologic history of any particular place. He launched from downtown Bombay, India, and landed 240 km (150 mi) south in Panchale.. South of Burns Flat in Washita County, their Bertha Rogers No.1 would reach almost six miles deep in 1974 after a deep fishing trip. In many place around the globe oil is found below land surfaces that currently are hundreds to thousands of feet ABOVE sea level. A 2017 infographic from Fuel Fighter offered some impressive context for the supposedly massive depth of the Rosneft/Exxon well. Very happy to have the memory of this and many more close shaves but I have moved on to live a very full and exciting life. Many lakes exist at very high places. Most objectors probably envisage drilling rigs covering the landscape and blotting out the sun like pictures from early days in Texas/California, but I dont see the need for it to necessarily be this way. The American Petroleum Institute has a secret spy agency taking care of individuals who come close to the abiotic oil secret. 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. It has been directly answered several times. My response: I believe liquid water is found in sedimentary strata around planet Earth . I know where oil does not come from, plants and dinosaurs at 40,000 feet. It has nothing to do with oil formation, although it is one of the ways that large amounts of potential source material has been lost. Science is the looking at and re-looking at theories and observations. I will cease asking questions on this subject matter in deference to those I have obviously upset. 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. This process is called orogeny, and has occurred many times in the history of the Earth. It is not oil or gas that is being sought with the Kola well, but an understanding of the nature of the earth's crust. The maximum bottom hole temperature (213F) was encountered in the Mississippi Canyon (MC) 777 TF001 well, drilled by BP. When wells are drilled, the depth is measured from a reference datum, usually the Kelly bushing (KB) of the drilling rig. It is simply not the same as the true vertical depth that would have lent credence to all those amazing comparisons with buildings and flight heights. Its based on over 100 years of drilling. The bull wheel, driven by the wells steam-powered drilling engine, exerted a tremendous strain on the assembled poles. It was a beauty. Independent producer John West in 2006 preserved artifacts in the closed Anadarko Basin Museum of Natural History in Elk City, Oklahoma. Its locked up in the API vault in between the perpetual motion machine and the formula for turning water into gasoline . What is more so is when erroneous sources are quoted by others, including what one might think are more reliable sources of info. I dont spend energy to fill my gas tank. Reminds me of We will travel 20,000 leagues under the sea!. My quick Web search only turned up a reference to isotope dating Alberta oil sand deposits to 112 million years ago: https://phys.org/news/2005-05-world-age-oil.html . Todays infographic comes to us from Fuel Fighter, and it helps to visualize the mind-boggling depths of the worlds deepest oil well, which is located in a remote corner of eastern Russia. As old ocean plates are subducted, sometimes islands, sediments, and anything else sitting on top of them is scraped off and accreted in the area adjacent to the subduction zone. [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. David Middleton, thank you for your very comprehensive, informative reply. It has been mined by pumping down superheated water and melting the sulfur (Frasch process), though nowadays most sulfur is obtained by removing the sulfur content of oil and gas. Pythagoras is rolling over in his grave . There is a girl who somehow survived being sucked up into a huge thunderstorm in Australia while hang gliding, and wound up 10,000 meters high, at -55, unconscious, alone, and far above the death zone. Trading and investing carries a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. Summary. And would you please compare the areal extent of Mt. 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. In. We wouldnt need offshore rigs to reach a lot of that oil and gas. The features we call mountains that are there now are actually the roots of mountains that were at one time deep undergroundmiles and miles underground. Volcanoes deposited material on top of the crust, and also sometimes magma welled up but never broke the surface, and the magma cooled deep underground. Fifty-one other wells have been drilled below 25,000 feet (7,620 m) in eight regions of the U.S. New patients are welcome. UmJeff, pretty sure DM just gave you the opposite of a slang definition. Despite drillers trying to avoid having expensive tools jammed deep in the well, accidents happened. 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. down the sun. Shows the many dangers of the internet. Several hundred of her poems appear in literary journals, anthologies, and in her poetry collections, including Wild, Again; Heart Turned Back; Sleeper, You Wake; Even the Hemlock; A House of Corners; and The Fourth Beast. Water and halite (salt) are less dense than most rocks. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. Roughnecking jobs today are for sissies and weaklings. Using nails and wax, an impression block helps determine what is stuck downhole. Obituary. EROEI is just about the dumbest concept to ever come out of academia. See the About>Contact menu under the header. In a note of totally unrelated trivia: Lone Star Producing became . It required about eight hours for bottom hole cuttings to reach the surface almost six miles above. Probably not. This isnt even wrong. Deep drilling in the Anadarko Basin is facilitated by a ~40,000 thick sedimentary section and the top of geopressure can be deeper than 20,000. I serve my customers with compassion, integrity, and tenacity. A pipe connection might bend. But I invite scientists more knowledgeable than me to comment on this. 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. hard to believe there has been that much vertical movement in Earths surface? Severe ones are typically 50,000. Geologists knew far more about finding coal seams than characteristics of oil-bearing formations. In our close-knit learning community, top-tier academics and Christian faith are integrated in 100 programs of study. 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. 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. .. which consist of Aristotle, Rogers, and Toulmin. While they are moving around, they can have stuff eroded off of them, piled onto them, or extruded onto or into them by volcanoes. After my first Physical Geology class in September 1976, I realized that I knew even less than I thought I did . A total of four oil producers and one gas injector were planned to develop the northern portion of the reservoir. 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. And further west, there is also a long history of various cycles and processes, including uplift, erosion, sedimentation, further uplift, etc. These are generally erosional surfaces that formed during the periods of uplift. 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. I should have read all the comments, as others have made the same point. Long wells arent deep wells. The squiggly lines on the cross section are unconformities. . That email address is already in the database. We seem to be living through a period of time where facts have become pass. A rope was wound around this wheels rim and led to the bull wheel shaft. The Kolas well depth is comparable with the distance across Jackson. Rosneft states it on its website, in a press release on the completion of O-14, that the total depth of the well, including the vertical and the directional section, is 15 km, of which the non-vertical section extends 14.13 km, or 46,900 feet. The Deep Anadarko Basin of Western Oklahoma is one of the most prolific gas provinces of North America. The problem I see is that rocks found below about 7 km of sediment tend to be low quality, temperature and pressure increase to the outer limits, and this hurts the economic returns to such an extent that looking for that deep oil can be a dicey business. Some observers classified it as an ultra-deep dry hole.. Bertha Rogers Well Location Location Burns Flat, Dill City, Oklahoma, USA state Oklahoma Country USA Coordinates Coordinates: 3519N9911W / 35.31N 99.19W / 35.31; -99 Production Products Natural Gas Type Gas Well Greatest depth 31,441 feet (9,583 m) History Opened 1974 Closed 1997 Owner Company Lone Star Producing Company The Kola Peninsula. Memphis, TN 38104
Uplift occurs by any of several mechanisms. These are the sorts of things that one learns when one studies a science like Geology. The equipment could not take the abuse at total depth. The Chayvo prospect was first identified on 2d seismic surveys in 1971, drilled in 1979 and assessed as a gas resource in 1982. The 22-year-old Grandin improvised his own well fishing tools, but not only lost his drill bit (an industry first), he ended up with Americas first dry hole among other petroleum industry milestones. Octane isnt even oil. Any high school student could make the paradoxes go away. The University of Alaska Fairbanks is an AA/EO employer and educational institution and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: Learn more about UA's notice of nondiscrimination. If the energy return goes to less than about 12X the energy invested we are in trouble. After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft). During drilling, the well encountered enormous pressure almost 25,000 psi (172,369 kPa). Digging a hole straight down would seem to be the most effective way to study the Earths interior. In 1976 or 77 when I was stationed at NAS Agana Guam the weather radar guys at Anderson AFB painted a stationary offshore thunderstorm at 85,000 feet. The zones were layers, about 7 potential zones, the Granite Wash was the last one to test as you came uphole. 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I especially like how they depict it as soil the entire way down. Despite the record-setting Bertha Rogers and other deep wells in the Anadarko basin, the Permian basin currently Interestingly, Fourier doesnt even mention hothouses or greenhouses, and actually stated that in order for the atmosphere to be anything like the glass of a hotbox, such as the experimental aparatus of de Saussure (1779), the air would have to solidify while conserving its optical properties (Fourier, 1827, p. 586; Fourier, 1824, translated by Burgess, 1837, pp. 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 . So, the temperature in an ultradeep borehole is not just higher than surface temps: it tops 180 degrees Celsius at a depth of 12 km, or 39,370 feet. 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