The History Of The Pennsylvania Oil Boom And Petroleum Industry

The discovery of oil transformed the world, suddenly there was a cheap alternative to coal, the industrial revolution went into gear. Now we are only a few years away from the end of that oil, the world will transformed once more, this time for the worse.

Do they expect us to use carbon neutral stone age technology to drill the wells and buckets to ferry the oil back to shore.

I agree; We put a man on the moon in 7 years and didn’t even know where to begin, for chrissakes.

oil wells up into canada.is it true that we have some very strong oil wells which are being called the bakken formation

There are lots of Bakken formation oil wells in Canada, Montana and North Dakota. Most if not all the wells are not what you would call "strong" (whatever that means). They may produce a few hundred barrels of oil per day at most. The great thing though is that Bakken wells in general produce for a LONG time – some over 30 years.

And, his shares in oil companies ?

Good question.

True or False ?

Also consider that there is ground water that is not potable/irragable without processing, there are plenty of salt water aquifers in most regions in the Midwest to draw water from. Other times you do not need to put water in, there are currently applications to use voids from oil extraction for pressurized gas storage.

My wife and I received an application for Wellbore Commingling of fluids from an oil exploration company. We already have a well and are unsure of what this means? Are they going to drill a new well or drill farther down the existing one? Anyone’s thoughts would be appreciated!

You can produce two different reservoirs from one well either by having a separate set of tubing for each reservoir or by just letting both reservoirs flow into the well bore and then to the surface.

It sounds like they are going to try to produce from a separate reservoir. Assuming you have an interest in both reservoirs then it is probably a ok.

You really should contact the company and ask for an explanation. They should be happy to provide one.

The sites below may be of some help.

To reduce the rate of rise in sea levels

I’m unsure how you think that would achieve anything.

For starters, oil wells aren’t some magical hole in the ground that contains oil like a big underground bucket. Oil is stored in the pores of rocks, we only get an economical deposit when it’s trapped by a seal which we then drill into for our "well"
The pores of the rocks are already being filled naturally with water, either by sub-oceanic water or ground water in the case of onshore rigs.

Secondly, even if this was theoretically possible, the ratio of "available" oil well space versus the polar icecaps would make it impractical. The reserves of ice dwarfs the amount of oil that has been extracted, so even if it were possible, it wouldn’t make any difference.

So more importantly, reducing the USE of oil is more likely to have an impact on rising sea levels, ie less burning of hydrocarbons means less CO2 which means a reduction in global warming effect (theoretically) which means no polar icecap melting

Cheers,

Angie B.

What is the liberal answer? Mrs. BJ Clinton wants to tax the oil companies more. Won’t that just cause them to move to another country? Who is stopping us from drilling oil wells in the gulf of mexico or ANWAR in alaska, or building gasoline refineries, or using nuclear power?

Liberals always want it one way. But republicans know reality and are more rational and logical. Like the dumbbass who was filling up his suburban that had an anti-bush sticker on it and started complaing to me about the price of gas and how it was Bush’s fault. I told him it was his fault for buying a bus as a car. He didnt like it. Tough. Liberals need to be put in their place.

Hmm. If they are calculated, it’s probably a rough, simple, and conservative calculation. Oilwells are not run as scientifically as you might think…a lot of times it’s ‘Try pumping harder’ rather than ‘Let me try and calculate this again’.

i think i looked at the right site for this and this is what it gave. 625,000, there abouts, and over 3/4 of them are artificially lined. hope that helped