Since it was established by an Act of Congress in 1946, scientists at the Geophysical Institute have studied geophysical processes from the center of the Earth to the surface of the sun and beyond, turning data and observations into information useful for state, Arctic and national priorities. The term fishing came from early percussion drilling using cable-tools. I have a little desk plaque with two pockets one containing sulfur crystals and the other with rock cuttings from the Bertha Rogers Well. It was completed as as gas well in the Granite Wash at about 13,000. UmJeff, pretty sure DM just gave you the opposite of a slang definition. 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Held by some guy named Larry, who had only planned to go up about 30 , but miscalculated. including Medicare and Medicaid. Wells and K.L. Hendersonville, TN 37075 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. 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. abiotic theory of oil formation. Saint Helens. The Washita County marker notes: The Deep Anadarko Basin of Western Oklahoma is one of the most prolific gas provinces of North America. Photo by Bruce Wells. Its possible that crude oil-like substances can form at higher temperatures however, producible volumes of oil havent been found below the oil window. This is the essence of the shale revolution.. 1) No reasonable explanation for why hypothesized abiotic oil production would not have existed sometime prior to about 500 Ma ago, given Earths approximate age of 4,500 Ma. Screams in the deepest borehole. What I was getting at is that, as deep as the deepest producing wells are, the place where the original sediment exists is even deeper. Societies dont produce energy, businesses do. There are some very interesting videos of large storms on you tube. I think that was an Honoury Darwin Award because he survived, The graphic got the hot air balloon height wrong as well. Much information comes from such holes; for example, the bottom of this hole was about 370F (190C). 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, and also happens to be a type of rocked that will not only hold it in place, but also be porous enough to allow pumping it out fast to be possible. The layered zones made it practical to dill these very deep wells as a field. 1 well have been carried out: total organic carbon, Soxhlet extraction and silica gel chromatography, C15+ saturated and aromatic hydrocarbon gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, pyrolysis, kerogen analysis, X-ray diffraction and visual kerogen analysis. 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. To fish for stuck tools, these were lowered in well, armed at their end with a die with a left-hand thread cut in it. 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 seem to recall that at one point the Russians (was probably the Soviets at that point in time) had decided to try to drill all the way through Earths crust to test the idea that there could be primordial methane trapped down there. And over long periods of time, the plates can smash into each other, or be ripped apart, etc. That announcement was 14 years ago, and I could not find a more recent article or publication on using this technique on oil. Ive drilled wells deeper than 20,000 in the Gulf of Mexico. I did hear in the eighties of a test well drilled to 19,000 feet they quite when it became oblivious they were beyond the level where the oil was. I came across an crazy example of this, or at least a purported example, a month or two ago when reading some material posted by others on Twitter, during one of those never ending comment threads that occur there. Organic geochemical analyses of fine-grained rocks from the 9.590 km Bertha Rogers No. Dr. Bertha Alarcon Vargas, DDS, is a General Dentistry specialist practicing in Pomona, CA with 33 years of experience. One of the reasons why places like the Gulf of Mexico exist, and have such large amounts of sediment and such old sedimentary rock in place,is because they have, for various reasons, never been subducted. In order to get their single drill hole down as far as they did, the Soviets had to resort to experimental methods. There is some technical speculation/research that a portion of earths crust melted when the planet type body hit earth and formed the moon. This article takes us on a very interesting walk-about below ground. The Chayvo oilfield is very impressive for many reasons; however the depths of the wells and the oil & gas reservoirs are not among those reasons. As drillers gained experience with deeper wells, patent applications included hundreds of designs for catching some tool or part that had been broken or lost in the borehole. The Kola superdeep borehole, drilled in Russias Far East during the 70s and early 80s, was drilled simply to see how far into the ground we can go. Bad and unhealthy habit.) A few years ago I was asked to review one of those deep water discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico, and although the productive layer was very thick, and the oil in place was very large, I suggested they should not expect more than a 15% recovery factor, because the fluid/rock/temperature and geology just werent good enough to do anything but cherry pick the better spots. *Until 2004 the Bertha Rogers No. Consequently, in other places, oceanic crust plunges down into the mantle and is recycled. Many lakes exist at very high places. Drilling four times further in a horizontal direction than in a vertical direction is impressive indeed. The Quaternary can be more than 30,000 thick in some locations. Octane isnt even oil. Personal connection: Lone Star Producing became Enserch Exploration in 1975 and was my first employer in the oil & gas industry. While they are moving around, they can have stuff eroded off of them, piled onto them, or extruded onto or into them by volcanoes. & Geological Survey (U.S.). The Bakken & Three Forks are well-within the oil window. 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? McKinley. The following (as per The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition) is the preferred citation for articles:Bobby D. Weaver, Anadarko Basin, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AN003. 4,892 views Dec 9, 2020 The deepest borehole in the world. Gordon Dressler at 4:28 pm (i.e., two miles subduction). Simple sedimentary loading is one. 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. True vertical depth is how deep the well was drilled. Tabular salt acts like a radiator. But I invite scientists more knowledgeable than me to comment on this. The worst part of it is, most of them think they have a pretty good idea about stuff they know zero about. Research genealogy for Bertha Rogers of Broken Hill, NSW, Australia, as well as other members of the Rogers family, on Ancestry. A 2014 geologic map of 50,000 square mile Anadarko Basin showing thickness of strata courtesy U.S. Geological Survey. In an inert environment, aromatics, naphthenes and paraffins can be stable up to 1000F or even higher. Whether the glass is transparent to IR or not is irrelevant. Dataset Reference Date 1972-12-30. And then, this year, someone called out all the media who carried the Fuel Fighter infographic on their mistake. Work continued until the project was abandoned in 1989 because the drill became stuck in rock at a little over 12km (almost 40,000ft or 8 miles) deep. Fred Pearce The Climate Files: Simply put, hydrocarbon cracking is the process of breaking a long-chain of hydrocarbons into short ones. Oil is a mixture of complex hydrocarbons: alkanes (parafins), napthenes, aromatics and asphaltenes in highly variable ratios. - YouTube 0:00 / 2:10 The Kola Peninsula. https://wordpress.com/post/debunkhouse.wordpress.com/6995 We would all like to know what is inside the Earth. 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. And would you please compare the areal extent of Mt. Against all odds and employing the latest 1970s technology, Ponder was able to retrieve the pipe sections and drill bit from 30,019 feet down, bringing operations back on line and enabling drilling to continue even deeper into Oklahomas Anadarko Basin, at a site about 12 miles west of Cordell. Charles N. Gould, "The Anadarko Basin," Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), 1 April 1934. Deepwater facilities tend to not have a lot of slots because the wells are often drilled from subsea templates and tied back. It includes the Hugoton-Panhandle field, the Union City field and the Elk City field and is among the most prolific natural gas producing areas in North America. Are they against the benefits fuel does for people? While the Chayvo wells are impressive in terms of measured depth, they arent particularly deep. Promised rewards lying beyond the threshold of drilling techniques demand massive investment. Everest and all mountain ranges with elevations of 2 miles above sea level to the areal extent of all oil fields with producing layers greater than 2 miles below sea level? 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! Theres no evidence of significant abiotic oil formation on Earth at any time in its history. These are generally erosional surfaces that formed during the periods of uplift. Cost me his lunch at the MIT faculty cafeteria, plus a couple of months of rewrite to respond to his many pointed comments. This discovery has yet to be developed. The Anadarko Basin extends across western Oklahoma into the Texas Panhandle and into southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado. This is perhaps the most geologically ignorant sentence I have ever read. Warren County roadside marker photo. David Middleton posted: 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. These descriptions of the Greenhouse Effect all evade the key question of heat transfer., http://geologist-1011.net/net/greenhouse/. Hopefully, a better explanation will follow. Bertha Rogers Bertha Mae Rogers, 82, of Carlisle, formerly of Shippensburg, passed away Wednesday, July 20, 2016 in the Select Specialty Hospital at Camp Hill. As I too get older and my kids are growing up, this is a key question. The Anadarko Basin is a geologic feature covering approximately fifty thousand square miles primarily in west-central Oklahoma, but including the upper Texas Panhandle, southwestern Kansas, and southeastern Colorado. How do we know? Contact Us David, thank you very much for the bar chart graphics from Grunau and Klemme & Ulmeshek. (2000). The presence or lack of 14C can also be indicative of the age. My pay check, ChevronTexaco, ExxonMobil & Shell credit card statements and checks to the gas & electric companies arent denominated in joules, kilowatts or Btu They are denominated in $. The Chayvo wells were impressive accomplishments, Apr 22, 2014 Extended-reach drilling project from onshore rig surpasses previous Sakhalin campaigns, sets world records for MD, By Vishwas P. Gupta, ExxonMobil Development Co; Angel H.P. However, there are quite a few oil wells in the Gulf producing from oil reservoirs at true vertical depths of 20,000 to 28,000. These are the sorts of things that one learns when one studies a science like Geology. 11-12). The North Sakhalin Neogene total petroleum system of eastern Russia. Several separate mountain ranges have been uplifted and eroded away. Screams in the deepest borehole. 205 Indian Lake Blvd. On top of the range there is a strange, flat plateau. First, define the approachof each thinker and then compare and. 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. 2745 Hacks Cross Road There is subduction off the West Coast, but what is being and has been subducted is not the Pacific plate, but the Farallon plate, and it remnants, known as the Juan De Fuca plate in the north, the Cocos plate off of Central America, and a few slices called the Gorda and the Rivera plate, although the exact names and some of the details are still being disputed, including whether the Farallon was one plate or, more likely, a complex situation sort of like what exists now north and west of Australia. I think they are dangerous when not clearly marked as primarily wild eyed guesswork. Keep piling the sediments on and the crust below sinks. In terms of true vertical depth, the Bertha Rogers No 1 natural gas well in the Anadarko Basin used to be the deepest in the world, at over 31,400 feet. I especially like how they depict it as soil the entire way down. . I will cease asking questions on this subject matter in deference to those I have obviously upset. In directional drilling, the measured depth is greater than the true vertical depth. If this was the only time anyone drilled so deep and that is what happened, and it was unexpected or a unique finding, does that not make it a very interesting question, re what the hell else is down there that no one knows about or predicted? 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. 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. The newest well at Chayvo extends deeper into the ground than planes can fly in the air. It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970. Christ-Centered The bottom line isnt denominated in joules, watts or Btu Its denominated in $$$. Independent producer John West in 2006 preserved artifacts in the closed Anadarko Basin Museum of Natural History in Elk City, Oklahoma. 74-89% of retail investor accounts lose money. Among the deepest wells in the world have been the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a 1989 experimental well drilled the Soviet Union. The cost to drill a well is also much higher in real terms. 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. Obviously someone else needs to summarize the paradoxes and the issues. Three of the project wells set ERD records for measured depth (MD). As in cable-tool fishing, an impression block often was needed to determine the proper fishing tool. Well, very deep. Sorry if this was OT. My interest was in meteorology. We had a five man crew. In addition to the important bearing that this discovery has on the general geophysical sciences, there is a potential economic impact. The depths on the chart are approximations based on a generalized geothermal gradient. However, the true vertical depth of the worlds deepest oil well is only about a very unremarkable 11,000 deep The Z-44 well was designed for a horizontal completion, so its measured depth was exceptionally long. But hot air balloon records, cloud heights, and the correct vertical well depth would have ruined the narrative. 1 reached a total depth of 31,441 feet where it encountered liquid sulfur. Drilling time and depth improved with the addition of steam power and tall, wooden derricks. Rough schematic comparing relative dimensions of earth's crustal thickness, depth of the Kola well, and height of Mt. 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas = 1,037,000 Btu, Current prices: It takes a long time, but the Earth has had plenty of time. That is expensive digging! 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. We acknowledge the Alaska Native nations upon whose ancestral lands our campuses reside. But I invite scientists more knowledgeable than me to comment on this., The greatest subduction is at the edges of the plates, such as on the American West Coast, where the North American plate is overriding the Pacific plate, which is plunging down into the mantle. Trading and investing carries a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. However, valuable core samples were obtained and a lot was learned about deep sea drilling. In a note of totally unrelated trivia: Lone Star Producing became . Cracking in solids is essentially the same as the cracking of long chain hydrocarbons. https://wtf.tw/ref/tainter.pdf, https://youtu.be/GzuviYRse3E about 3 minutes. 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. I know where oil does not come from, plants and dinosaurs at 40,000 feet. In March 1974 in far western Oklahoma, after 16-months of drilling and almost six miles deep, the Bertha Rogers No. It is now over 40,000 feet deep, making it the deepest hole on earth (the previous record holder was the Bertha Rogers well in Oklahoma--a gas well stopped at 32,000 feet when it struck molten sulfur). 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