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Can the oil run out? Is there a never ending supply down there?
Posted on 5/18/10 at 1:45 pm
Posted on 5/18/10 at 1:45 pm
Seems like it would run out sooner or later? 
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Posted on 5/18/10 at 1:49 pm to Nike1
eventually
Posted on 5/18/10 at 1:50 pm to Nike1
quote:
Seems like it would run out sooner or later?
Yes it would. Later. Really, really later.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 2:04 pm to Indiana Tiger
Heard some "expert" on tv say in about 12 years. I dunno.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 2:05 pm to Indiana Tiger
Well it is a matter or pressure. I am not a geologist, but everything underground is under pressure. When you open a hole it releases the pressure, and oil and gas come up.
Over time the pressure is relieved and the amount of oil and gas coming up will slowly decrease.
But depending on the reservoir size and other forces this would take a long time.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 2:10 pm to ItTakesAThief
The point is that it would be much later than the efforts to cap will take.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 2:14 pm to Nike1
There's a theory (google "abiotic oil") that oil is not a fossil fuel at all but a carbon liquid generated in the core of the earth.
But if we use it faster than it replenishes it doesn't matter, anyway.
But if we use it faster than it replenishes it doesn't matter, anyway.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 2:32 pm to Rex
oil is a fossil fuel. it's hydrocarbons, just like natural gas, i.e. fossil fuel
Posted on 5/18/10 at 2:36 pm to Nike1
it would run out of pressure before it ran out of oil.
Thus, the oil fields of Pennsylvania still hold 90% of the original oil, but there is no pressure to get it out with.
They had oil derrick rigs every 50 feet in the 1870's, before there was concern over ruining fields.
Oklahoma is quite similar. fields with lots of oil, but no pressure.
We will get that oil out in 10 or 20 years after the microbe technology is perfected. the oil will be eaten by microbes and turned into natural gas.
Meanwhile, lets hope they can control this one in a few days.
Its likely now that they have the tube in place.
Thus, the oil fields of Pennsylvania still hold 90% of the original oil, but there is no pressure to get it out with.
They had oil derrick rigs every 50 feet in the 1870's, before there was concern over ruining fields.
Oklahoma is quite similar. fields with lots of oil, but no pressure.
We will get that oil out in 10 or 20 years after the microbe technology is perfected. the oil will be eaten by microbes and turned into natural gas.
Meanwhile, lets hope they can control this one in a few days.
Its likely now that they have the tube in place.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 2:59 pm to ottothewise
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it would run out of pressure before it ran out of oil.
this.... usually when you start hearing "water flood" or "watershed" They have been running low on pressure in a formation that they still feel is very viable and economical. Could take years or decades to run out of pressure, depending on the formation.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 3:14 pm to back9Tiger
The initial pressure when the well is drilled is called primary recovery, usually 10-15% of the oil in place is recovered this way. Secondary primary deals with water flood and gas lifts, acid treating as well as a couple other techniques. Tertiary recovery is the final stage, we use chemical floods, steam injection, and other ways of heating the reservoir. The new thing is microbes and nanoreporters. But very new and not widely used. Secondary recovery usually yields up to 20-25% of the oil in place and tertiary can yield up to 40%.
This post was edited on 5/18/10 at 3:24 pm
Posted on 5/18/10 at 3:34 pm to Rex
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There's a theory (google "abiotic oil") that oil is not a fossil fuel at all but a carbon liquid generated in the core of the earth.
How much crack does one have to smoke to come up with this idea?
I read for about 2 minutes, melted my mind and stopped.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 3:52 pm to TheHiddenFlask
years!
Posted on 5/18/10 at 3:56 pm to the LSUSaint
Can we just let it run for 12 years and use the gulf as a big oil reserve?
We are addicted to the sh*t after all.
We are addicted to the sh*t after all.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 3:58 pm to TejasHorn
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Can we just let it run for 12 years and use the gulf as a big oil reserve?
Its looking like that way now
Posted on 5/18/10 at 5:14 pm to TheHiddenFlask
I went to the gym and thought about the people who are promoting the theory of abiotic oil and I think I'm even more shocked about it now.
I don't even have any idea why anyone would question the source of oil in the first place, the pieces fit together perfectly. Some people have way too much time on their hand and just want to be a pioneer of some field of thought.
I don't even have any idea why anyone would question the source of oil in the first place, the pieces fit together perfectly. Some people have way too much time on their hand and just want to be a pioneer of some field of thought.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 5:24 pm to TheHiddenFlask
in 2012 when it sucks the inside of the earth dry causing an implosion
Posted on 5/18/10 at 6:02 pm to TheHiddenFlask
quote:
I went to the gym and thought about the people who are promoting the theory of abiotic oil and I think I'm even more shocked about it now.
I don't even have any idea why anyone would question the source of oil in the first place, the pieces fit together perfectly. Some people have way too much time on their hand and just want to be a pioneer of some field of thought.
Don't be too shocked. After all, a sizeable portion of our population actually embrace young earth creationism. Data is irrelevant to these folks.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 7:02 pm to jim712
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Don't be too shocked. After all, a sizeable portion of our population actually embrace young earth creationism. Data is irrelevant to these folks.
I am never shocked at the BS people will believe. Just look at all the people that got elected in Washington DC!
Posted on 5/18/10 at 8:40 pm to Nike1
depends on the size of the resovoir
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