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. Sadly, the story recounts that he committed suicide about 11 years later. David is ignorant and uninterested concerning the geological paradoxes. If we assume the field has two target layers, and want to be reasonable, its better to plan on 16 wells per pad, wells drilled in four forks with four tines each, set in a skinny rectangular shape. (2005). And over long periods of time, the plates can smash into each other, or be ripped apart, etc. Christ-Centered In percussion drilling, the heavy cable-tool assembly could get jammed in the borehole and could no longer be repeatedly lifted and dropped. I especially like how they depict it as soil the entire way down. Climate Activists Vow Huge Street Protests, Parliamentary Inquiry UK Green Jobs Narrative Unravelling, Wrong, Media and COP-27, Africa Is Not De-Carbonizing, Oil Exploration Is Expanding, Climate Czar John Kerry: We planet saviors had extraterrestrial influence., Surprise! On the rig floor, fishing tools had to be lowered by a line into the well, armed at their end with spears, clamps and hooks. While the Chayvo wells are impressive in terms of measured depth, they arent particularly deep. Given what I know, drilling below 10 thousand meters vertical depth is a waste of money. The worst part of it is, most of them think they have a pretty good idea about stuff they know zero about. 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. Add in lazy research and their products are bad jokes. BPs Tiber discovery on Keathley Canyon Block 102 logged oil pay below 30,000 TVD. Luckily, the oil industry does not have such human obstacles, and drilling deep into the Earths crust is instead limited by a different set of circumstances how deep can the machinery and technology go before the unfathomable heat and pressure renders it inoperable? These descriptions of the Greenhouse Effect all evade the key question of heat transfer., http://geologist-1011.net/net/greenhouse/. Reminds me of We will travel 20,000 leagues under the sea!. Maybe these guys are opposed to people producing heat of any kind? 2181 Union Ave. The Tiber wells depth - true vertical depth - was more than 35,000 feet. Most objectors probably envisage drilling rigs covering the landscape and blotting out the sun like pictures from early days in Texas/California, but I dont see the need for it to necessarily be this way. This is almost impossible to explain to a freshman geology student, much less people with no understanding of geology. Beginning in the late 1950s, when technological advance allowed it, Anadarko Basin wells began to be drilled below the thirteen-thousand-foot level in what geologists call "the deep gas play." . In 1979 the No. Yeap, Kyle M. Fischer, Randall S. Mathis, Exxon Neftegas; Michael J. Egan, consultant to Exxon Neftegas. Other types of clouds can be even higher, like nacreous clouds as much as 82,000 The basin contains sedimentary deposits ranging in thickness from two thousand feet on its northern and western flanks to forty thousand feet in its southern portion. WTI = $64.40/bbl = $11.25/million Btu And its not like petroleum explorationists have had to look deeper for oil, well look wherever the technology allows us to go. When controls on gas prices were lifted, Anadarko justified the faith and perseverance of The GHK Company and other operators who pioneered in deep drilling. Fifty-one other wells have been drilled below 25,000 feet (7,620 m) in eight regions of the U.S. The Earths crust is the outer layer of material of the planet, and includes continental crust and ocean crust. Or at least, ALSO of abiotic nature. In 1980, the Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma Petroleum Council dedicated a granite monument at Third and Pioneer streets in Elk City, Oklahoma. Methane isnt oil. 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. And she lived through it. It was a borehole that reached 31,400 feet, or nearly six miles, into the Earth. Specialties: Bertha's Happy Pets offers pet grooming, nail trim, nail buff, de-shedding shampoo, flea shampoo, ticks removal, tearless face shampoo,medicated shampoo, cat bath, breed hair cuts, free cage day-care, Asian hair cuts, pet groomer Most of the rocks originally below that level have been eroded away, carried downstream by the rivers and deposited in the Gulf. GHK Company and partner Lone Star Producing Company believed ultra-deep wells in Oklahomas Anadarko Basin could produce massive amounts of natural gas. 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. AAPG 2007 Annual Convention, Long Beach, California, April 1-4, 2007. Obituary. This is simply wrong. Its mind-boggling that you seem to think its clever. Its hard to believe there has been that much vertical movement in Earths surface (i.e., two miles subduction) over the last several hundred thousand to several hundred million years. Many of the executives had pieces of sulfur that were recovered from the Bertha Rogers well. And thats not all. 1 (Anardarko basin, Oklahoma, U.S.)* . This is a place where a salt water sea exists, connected to the ocean but underlain by continental crust. This sidesteps the basic question of how so much organic material (eliminating an abiotic origin) became so deeply buriedvia subduction, subsidence or sedimentation overlayin the first place to eventually allow its transformation into oil and its percolation upwards. The equipment could not take the abuse at total depth. But I invite scientists more knowledgeable than me to comment on this. It's possible to draw a reasonable cross section of the earth based purely on remote geophysical (largely seismic) methods, but unless on-the-spot checks can be made, there will always be a certain amount of guesswork involved. Pythagoras is rolling over in his grave . North American Brine Resources operates a plant near Dover, Oklahoma. From the article: The measured depth (MD) of the worlds deepest oil well is over 40,000. And within that pile of sediment we find rocks holding organic material which didnt get eaten by bacteria when it fell to the bottom. David Middleton, 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. 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At the maximum rate, this would only account for 2200 m of sedimentation over two hundred million years . Petroleum-like substances have been associated with hydrothermal vents in basins with thick organic-rich sediments. Commercial aviation, the natural progression for older fighter pilots, presented its own challenges mostly the enormous responsibility of having close to 400 souls counting on my experience and judgement every time I went to work. As old ocean plates are subducted, sometimes islands, sediments, and anything else sitting on top of them is scraped off and accreted in the area adjacent to the subduction zone. Horizontal drilling and fracing have enabled the direct production of oil from this source rock. This isnt even wrong. In Arrhenius (1896, p. 237) we read: Summary. Among the deepest wells in the world have been the Kola Superdeep Borehole, a 1989 experimental well drilled the Soviet Union. Is hitting molten sulfur common? Hundreds of millions of years ago, the Western US was a place where a long period of erosion had worn the land down below sea level in spots, and there existed a feature called an inland sea. They are registered with several professional bodies, including the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), the British Psychological Society (BPS), as well as, BACP, UKCP and BABCP. 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. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFHtvDA0W34I&ved=2ahUKEwj73Ky8897hAhVDmIsKHbfZCfAQwqsBMAB6BAgGEAU&usg=AOvVaw3fMJb2nOZzbkk6cRpI1kqX. Much information comes from such holes; for example, the bottom of this hole was about 370F (190C). Photo by Bruce Wells. The Bakken formation lies between 4500 ft. to 11,000 ft. with the Three Forks formation below it. Cost me his lunch at the MIT faculty cafeteria, plus a couple of months of rewrite to respond to his many pointed comments. 1 Sanders well in Beckham County became Oklahomas deepest natural gas producing well at 24,996 feet. Now I hear they are leasing drilling beneath the gas pay zones. Despite drillers trying to avoid having expensive tools jammed deep in the well, accidents happened. Over 41 km is the present record. On top of the range there is a strange, flat plateau. Even then, the oil & gas arent permanently trapped. So the scientific ring leader alGore claims there are these incredibly hot rocks, several million degrees a couple of kilometers or so down. That is mostly Mississippi/Missouri. Learn more about UAs notice of web accessibility. In both, its splitting molecular bonds. Wow! Mrs. Bertha Mary Rogers of South Boston, VA died Thursday, December 1st at the age of 82. Rotten dinosaurs, honest! According to what we have learned this week, thereare three ways to approach an argument. We were using elevators and a slide table instead of slips. Their chief innovation was that, instead of turning the drill bit by rotating the stem, in the Kola well the bit alone was turned by the flow of drilling mud. Whether the glass is transparent to IR or not is irrelevant. Despite the record-setting Bertha Rogers and other deep wells in the Anadarko basin, the Permian basin currently It led to far deeper wells. Other times, when plates collide, one plate can be lifted onto another. The short answer is no, because there is one little catch: directional drilling. 10.2523/IPTC-10573-MS. Handbook of Texas Online, Jeff Seidel, ENSERCH CORPORATION, accessed April 17, 2019,http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dqe01. New ocean crust is always forming at the undersea places called mid-ocean ridges. There is now no reasonable doubt that over the continental areas of the world the earth's crust is about 20 miles thick, but only about half that in the oceanic areas. wildcat well to a depth of 31,441 feet (9,583 m) in Beckham County, Okla., in the Anadarko basin. Describing cable tool operations, he explained that the basic principle of well fishing tools often involved milled wedges on a spear or in a cylinder for recovering lost tubing or casing. The remaining oil reserves we have are deeper and harder to find, not just in Russias Far East. 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. That announcement was 14 years ago, and I could not find a more recent article or publication on using this technique on oil. One of the more interesting was the Lone Star Producing Companys Bertha Rogers #1 in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma. In other words, the true vertical depth of the well is less than 1 km or 3,280 feet. Merchant of Record: A Media Solutions trading as Oilprice.com. Oklahoma extracts the brine from a 9,800 feet (3,000 m) deep well. That person has a low chance of ever getting themselves straightened out. Hes completely on top of his subject and a master of communication. This could possibly account for molten sulfur. The drilling was started October 25, 1972 and it took Lone Star a little over a year and a half to reach 31,441 feet (9,583 m) on April 13, 1974. Memphis, TN 38104 This is perhaps the most geologically ignorant sentence I have ever read. And would you please compare the areal extent of Mt. When this happens, and part of the plate being uplifted is ocean crust, a situation occurs where ocean floor rocks and sediment get lifted onto land, and often these same collisions cause the plates to crinkle up or get fold and/or compressed, and the result is mountain ranges. 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 dont give a rats @$$ if 1 barrel of amoeba farts uses less energy to produce than 1 barrel of crude oil Because the barrel of amoeba farts costs $1,100 and cant be produced in sufficient quantities to be waiting for me at the Chevron, Texaco, Exxon or Shell station when I need it. Well, does finding oil (petroleum) at over two miles below the surface support the abiotic theory of oil formation or not? The shallow water Lower Tertiary gas discovery at Davy Jones is well out of the oil window, but in the gas window and has never produced anything. For example here is a cell dynamics video I randomly selected. I was going to check on those others, figuring they may all be wrong. The average bottom hole temperature of those ten 20 million barrel producers was 197F. The layered zones made it practical to dill these very deep wells as a field. When wells are drilled, the depth is measured from a reference datum, usually the Kelly bushing (KB) of the drilling rig. The greater the hole angle, the bigger the difference. 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? First, define the approachof each thinker and then compare and. Or is oil at that depth not a liquid? 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. In an inert environment, aromatics, naphthenes and paraffins can be stable up to 1000F or even higher. But people that are aware that pretty much all knowledge is provisional, to at least a certain extent, have a far better chance of doing so. Much depended upon the skill and patience of the driller.. If so, then please explain the geological process by which sediments form above sea level, excluding the minor contribution of wind-born sand and dust. In directional drilling, the measured depth is greater than the true vertical depth. John L. Grandin attempted to recover a lost drill bit at his 1859 well near Tidioute, Pennsylvania. Some of my favorites are the high speed filming of lightning, and the ones showing clouds from space, where red sprites and blue jets and such are visible. This water (variously known as "water of crystallization", "primary" water, or "juvenile" water) which originates as an integral part of the rock crystals is very highly mineralized, and is a primary concentrating agent for most ore deposits. Its more like a very large trampoline where rivers dump enormous amounts of sand and mud, driving it down with their weight. Using nails and wax, an impression block helps determine what is stuck downhole. Millions of dollars hung in the balance when Houston-based Wilson Downhole Service Company, Houston, was called and tool-fishing expert Mack Ponder sent to the rescue. No commercial hydrocarbons were found before drilling hit a molten sulfur deposit, which solidified around the drill string, causing the drill pipe to twist-off and a loss of the bottom-hole assembly. The Bertha Rogers No. It was a science project in response to the US Project Mohole. It is produced by bacterial action when hydrocarbons come into contact with sulfate minerals (which are plentiful in salt deposits). 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. Fracking of course is a method to make it possible to produce oil and gas from rocks that hold it, but are not porous/permeable enough to release it readily. Excuse my ignorance, but how does a liquid crack? This is a strawman written to knock down. Setting aside the fact that the oil & gas havent been trapped anywhere for 400 million years What does gravity have to do with oil & gas migrating upward? The Lone Star Bertha Rogers well in Beckham County, . Searching for oil was less an earth science and more an art in the exploration and production industrys earliest days. Spudded in November 1972 and averaging about 60 feet per day, the Bertha Rogers had been heading for the history books as the world's deepest well at the time. Fred Pearce The Climate Files: ROBERT ALEXANDER HEFNER III, PETROLEUM INDUSTRY. IOW, when someone finds oil where no sediments exist, then I think the idea will have some legs. Yet the worlds deepest oil well is not in the United States. A subject explored in some depth in my ebook The Arts of Truth. contrast them as you understand their similaritiesand differences. Were sticking needles deep into Mother GAIA!!!! Consequently, in other places, oceanic crust plunges down into the mantle and is recycled. Please report any problems or feedback concerning this website to uaf-rcs@alaska.edu. Hey..this sciency stuff is way too complicated but impresses the heck out of the Arts major who put it together. As in cable-tool fishing, an impression block often was needed to determine the proper fishing tool. Most people will read that term and immediately misunderstand it. UA is committed to providing accessible websites. Ten wells in the Gulf of Mexico, drilled to true vertical depths greater than 20,000 have each produced more than 20 million barrels of oil. This die fit over the end of the stuck tool, tapered inward slightly, and when turned to the left, cut a thread on the cable tool. We had a five man crew. Looking a little more closely, it seems perhaps Fuel Fighter, or whoever made that graphic, may have not known the difference between feet and meters. Sometimes a wood, wax and nails impression block was first lowered to get an idea of what lay downhole. Perhaps the most well-known effort to pierce the Earth is Project Mohole (began in 1961), which was an attempt to drill through the Earths crust in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico where the crust is shallow. Helium. I could spend 2 Btu of natural gas to produce 1 Btu of oil and make over a 2:1 return on capital. Summary. Of course, large quantities of oil are found in other ocean areas apart from just these two. It wasnt the last time Lone Star/Enserch turned an exploration well into a science project/engineering demonstration. The oil migrated upward from deeper Mesozoic and Lower Tertiary source rocks. In addition to the important bearing that this discovery has on the general geophysical sciences, there is a potential economic impact. The trouble is the ambiguity of Measured Depth, which is really the length of the bore and only vaguely linked to actual depth. - YouTube 0:00 / 2:10 The Kola Peninsula. 1 rotary rig drill stem sheared, leaving 4,111 feet of pipe and the drill bit stuck downhole. On Russia's Kola Peninsula, near the Norwegian border at about the same latitude as Prudhoe Bay, the Soviets have been drilling a well since 1970. Recommended Reading:History Of Oil Well Drilling(2007); The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (1991);The Extraction State, A History of Natural Gas in America(2021). Walker Ridge 758 Chevron #1 is the deepest active oil producer in the Gulf of Mexico; drilled to a true vertical depth (TVD) of 28,497 (8.7 km) in a water depth of 6,959. Individual users must determine if their use of the Materials falls under United States copyright law's "Fair Use" guidelines and does not infringe on the proprietary rights of the Oklahoma Historical Society as the legal copyright holder of The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and part or in whole. Much of the oil off the coast of places like Santa Barbara, California is now reachable from onshore drilling. Union's variety of organizations, events and sports offers something for everyone. The place on the East coast called the Appalachian mountains has been, over billions of years, the site of numerous cycles of uplift, orogeny, erosion, etc. *Until 2004 the Bertha Rogers No. Drilling time and depth improved with the addition of steam power and tall, wooden derricks. There is also narrow basins with thick sediments along much of the coasts of the Atlantic. 1 in Washita County, drilled in 1971 to 31,441 feet, was then the world's deepest well. The Hugoton Embayment of the Anadarko Basin is 5,000 feet vertical TD. The oil formed after the source material was buried to a sufficient depth to raise the temperature to 60-175 C for an extended period of time. Digging a hole straight down would seem to be the most effective way to study the Earths interior. In both, its splitting molecular bonds.. In order to get their single drill hole down as far as they did, the Soviets had to resort to experimental methods. I was at a lecture regarding super-volcanoes the Bruneau/Jarbidge in sw Idaho. Ultradeep oil well drilled in Washita County (Oklahoma, USA) in 1973-1974. I think the question is not subduction, but the vertical extent of sedimentation, no? IOW, how deep are ancient sediments buried? As I too get older and my kids are growing up, this is a key question. [3], According to publicly available well records from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, the Bertha Rogers hole ceased production of natural gas in July 1997 and has since been plugged and abandoned. And the hotter it gets, the drier the gas. Sorry if this was OT. Red areas indicate ~20,000 meter sediment thickness. Consider sandstone reservoirs vs chalk reservoirs. Spudded in November 1972 and averaging about 60 feet per day, the Bertha Rogers had been heading for the history books as the worlds deepest well at the time. He does seem to have the height of Everest at least approximately right. 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. The reservoirs are relatively shallow, young (Miocene to Pliocene Epochs) and the entire total petroleum system is within the Neogene Period (less than 23 million years old. Shells Perdido spar on Alaminos Canyon 857 in 7,835 WD has no slots. , In petrochemistry, petroleum geology and organic chemistry, cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules such as kerogens or long-chain hydrocarbons are broken down into simpler molecules such as light hydrocarbons, by the breaking of carbon-carbon bonds in the precursors. It is not uncommon for people to get stuff wrong, and not very surprising. It doesnt support the myth of abiotic oil in the slightest. At this time development was deferred. 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