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Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:06 pm
Posted by bigwheel
Lake Charles
Member since Feb 2008
6491 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:06 pm
A couple of years in Cameron Parish, there was a very deep oil well being drilled. Some say it was 30K feet or more. Heard multiple stories about gas sands, etc, last I heard the deep well was plugged & abandoned. Also heard due to the depth, heat & pressure, the companies gave up, trying to complete, WTF happened? Thanks
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
35528 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:08 pm to
quote:

heat & pressure


That would be the devil.
Posted by TJG210
New Orleans
Member since Aug 2006
28363 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:09 pm to
Davey Jones?
Posted by LSUpetro
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2007
532 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:46 pm to
it wasnt an oil well as you mentioned... that should answer all your questions
This post was edited on 2/11/18 at 4:49 pm
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98351 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 5:02 pm to
They drilled a well on our land years ago that was supposed to make us beyond rich, but the sand was too tight or some bullshite like that.
Posted by Kim Jong Ir
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2008
52680 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 5:05 pm to
Geology is an inexact science
Posted by GREENHEAD22
Member since Nov 2009
19627 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 5:28 pm to
Too much pressure and heat, gas play and gas prices are down.
Posted by Rebelatheart42
Down South
Member since Sep 2016
862 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 5:48 pm to
I was a part of this one. (2009ish)
Though it was in water not land.

Deepwater Horizon recently drilled the deepest oil and gas well ever while working for BP and its co-owners on the Tiber well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico. Working with BP, the Transocean crews on the Deepwater Horizon drilled the well to 35,050 vertical depth and 35,055 feet measured depth (MD), or more than six miles, while operating in 4,130 feet of water.

RIP
Posted by whistlindixie
Louisiana
Member since Aug 2007
106 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 8:49 pm to
Freeport was drilling these wells. They were basically melting drill bits every 10 feet at that pressure. I work in Land and was part of a pretty extensive project in Acadia, St Landry, and Lafayette Parishes to do 8 of these wells on I believe 6000 acre units with a well site in Mire. The land was cleared and the drilling rig was brought in. You could see it parked in Duson in pieces. Anyway oil prices tanked and the drilling rig disappeared and I started looking for a new job immediately.
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
38614 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 9:56 pm to
Never heard of it but I've drilled a well over 30k feet 18 years ago in the GOM for Chevron. MLWD tools can go up to 400 degrees F and survive 30,000 psi now. It's common to drill wells in West Texas and North LA with DHT of 350 F.

On the +30k feet vertical well I was on we were smoking drill bits in around 12 hours. 48 hours of tripping to drill 12 hours.
This post was edited on 2/11/18 at 10:01 pm
Posted by redstick13
Lower Saxony
Member since Feb 2007
38614 posts
Posted on 2/11/18 at 10:24 pm to
The Russians still hold the record with their Kola Super deep. 40,230 feet.

LINK
This post was edited on 2/11/18 at 10:26 pm
Posted by Squedunk
Around Dumb People
Member since Jun 2008
679 posts
Posted on 2/12/18 at 3:07 am to
How many owners, or partners, of the Rockefeller well? Mcmoran, Chevron, Exxon? Some reason I thought Exxon had it in the 90’s.
Posted by skinny domino
sebr
Member since Feb 2007
14350 posts
Posted on 2/12/18 at 3:09 am to
quote:

couple of years in Cameron Parish, there was a very deep oil well being drilled. Some say it was 30K feet or more. Heard multiple stories about gas sands, etc, last I heard the deep well was plugged & abandoned. Also heard due to the depth, heat & pressure, the companies gave up, trying to complete, WTF happened? Thanks
welcome to the world of "fracking".
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