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Oil & Gas. Dudes
Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:06 pm
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
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Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:08 pm to bigwheel
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heat & pressure
That would be the devil.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:09 pm to bigwheel
Davey Jones?
Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:22 pm to Double Oh
Either them or FMOG.
This post was edited on 2/11/18 at 4:22 pm
Posted on 2/11/18 at 4:46 pm to bigwheel
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 on 2/11/18 at 5:02 pm to bigwheel
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 on 2/11/18 at 5:05 pm to bigwheel
Geology is an inexact science
Posted on 2/11/18 at 5:05 pm to Double Oh
Lineham Creek was drilled at the Rockefeller Refuge
Davy Jones was drilled offshore, McMoRan sunk $1,000,000,000 in that well. Ol Jim Bob gambled and lost.
Bottom fell out, pain in the arse to drill, mostly gas, fracking took off
Davy Jones was drilled offshore, McMoRan sunk $1,000,000,000 in that well. Ol Jim Bob gambled and lost.
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WTF happened?
Bottom fell out, pain in the arse to drill, mostly gas, fracking took off
This post was edited on 2/11/18 at 5:07 pm
Posted on 2/11/18 at 5:28 pm to bigwheel
Too much pressure and heat, gas play and gas prices are down.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 5:48 pm to bigwheel
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
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 on 2/11/18 at 8:49 pm to bigwheel
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 on 2/11/18 at 9:49 pm to GREENHEAD22
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Too much pressure and heat, gas play and gas prices are down.
This. Way too much low hanging fruit due to fracking for Lineham Creek to go anywhere.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 9:56 pm to bigwheel
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.
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 on 2/11/18 at 10:32 pm to whistlindixie
If it makes you feel any better Jim Bob lost his job over this bet as well.
This post was edited on 2/11/18 at 10:38 pm
Posted on 2/11/18 at 11:03 pm to redstick13
I had a buddy on the Davey Jones project at the time. They literally had every service company out there trying to get it logged and no one could get it done because of the heat. Well the grocery run came out and one of the hands for one of the blue companies came up with the idea to use the dry ice. I cant remember if they buried the tool in the ice and froze it or literally wrapped the tool in the ice and then sent it down hole but whichever it was it ended up working and they got the log. If irc BHT was around 450 and the pressure was something stupid.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 11:30 pm to GREENHEAD22
This is pretty much it. It's not worth it to drill these wells today. There's so much gas coming out of these Permian wells. It's really surprising but these wells are producing a shite ton of gas, and they have the infrastructure in place to transport it. I'm not sure that any gas focused company can survive it.
Posted on 2/11/18 at 11:34 pm to GREENHEAD22
Yep heard the same story about the dry ice.
They actually found a good amount of what looks like gas pay in those wells but actually producing the gas was extremely challenging.
They actually found a good amount of what looks like gas pay in those wells but actually producing the gas was extremely challenging.
Posted on 2/12/18 at 1:04 am to lsugradman
Oh there was a shite ton of gas down there, one of the biggest find on the shelf ever iirc but yes you are right they could never complete them. They were trying to design completion tools for those temps and pressures but dont think anyone was ever able to.
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