Saudi Size oil field Claim

[biochemrex]

What to do with the Waste?

Here in Australia a former Prime Minister - one of our most popular and respected ones has proposed that Australia should make itself available to the world as a repositry for the world's nuclear waste. We already have most of the world's easily available uranium, so it would make world sense if this was policy and a lot of money for social welfare in Australia. Of course the Greens are bitterly opposed to it. Keith

[erich]

That is not strictly accurate. It is rare to drill any well in a single hole size. Multiple strings of casing are run within ever smaller hole diameters, to protect vulnerable aquifers, to provide structural integrity and to isolate zones. Only the final hole section would remain uncased if the well were considered dry. Consequently word that the well has been cased does not really tell us anything.

 

Snowbrush22 has a slightly more optimistic view:

 

"Before the rig is taken off of a well, you must make a decision to:

1) Plug it, essentially filling the hole with concrete to permanantely prevent cross contamination of zones such as fresh whater and salt water.

2) Set Casing thereby allowing further analysis of the zones and information found. Not all cased wells are turned into producers. They may still be plugged but once plugged the well bore is normally not reuseable.

 

I view setting casing as a modestly positive signal. The most you can say is it wasn't P&A'd.

 

Tight with regard to informationn on a well suggests that you found something interesting that deserves further attention. This could be higher than expected strata, permiability, pay zone or anything else different from common knowledge/expectation. At that moment you may not know fully the implications of the deviation from expectation but your just not ready to give out data to your detriment in acquiring additional lease, access or other consideration. A tight is not necessarily a producer but it may point the arrow in the direction of a producer.

 

A tight hole status suggests a slightly more positive sign but it could just as easily be a move to preserve the value of the stock until another hole can be tested. "

 

 

Cheers,

Erich

[erich]

Dear Folks,

 

Here is interesting work going on that supports Alan K. Chamberlain's findings:

 

 

From: kennnthomas@...

Date: Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:21 pm

Subject: "bolstering the geothermal/oil/gold connection " kennnthomas2000

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Assessing the Role of Active and Ancient Geothermal Processes in

Oil-Reservoir Evolution in the Basin and Range Province

PERSON IN CHARGE: Jeffrey B. Hulen (801-581-8794; Fax 801-585-3540;

E-mail jhulen@...)

Objectives: The project is structured around investigation of the

premise that active and ancient moderate-temperature hydrothermal

systems, by various means, have been instrumental in the generation,

migration, and entrapment of oil in the Basin and Range province of the

western United States.

Project Description: The eastern Basin and Range encompasses several

shallow and hot (<2 km; up to 130°C) oil fields (for example Blackburn

and Grant Canyon/Bacon Flat) that geologically resemble the Carlin-type,

Paleozoic sediment-hosted gold deposits occurring in the same

region—in particular those of the southern Alligator Ridge mining

district about midway between the towns of Elko and Ely, Nevada. We are

investigating the distinct possibility that at least some of these gold

deposits are the exhumed and oxidized, paleogeothermal analogues of the

modern, exploited geothermal oil fields. Our approach is

multidisciplinary, involving (1) detailed geologic mapping, (2) logging

of drill cuttings and cores, with emphasis on alteration, porosity

characteristics, vein mineralization and paragenesis, and hydrocarbon

type and distribution, (3) three-dimensional stratigraphic/structural

analysis to allow reconstruction of fluid-flow paths used by both

thermal waters and hydrocarbons, (4) fluid-inclusion microthermometry,

to ascertain the compositions and temperatures of these fluids at

different times during the duration of the hydrothermal system, (5)

whole-rock and vein-mineral geochemistry, (6) hydrogeochemistry of

oil-field vs. regional

waters, and (7) stable-isotopic systematics of thermal waters and vein

and alteration minerals.

Results: During the past year, we have mapped several small, new

open-pit gold mines in the southern Alligator Ridge district, adding new

details to the stratigraphic/structural and hydrothermal picture

previously established for this area. All the new mines penetrate the

same oil-bearing, altered, and mineralized Paleozoic sedimentary

sequence encountered in prior excavations. The oil, freely-flowing and

in fluid inclusions, occurs within and around both low- and high-grade

gold ore bodies. From detailed petrographic and fluid-inclusion work

coupled with field relationships, the oil appears to have been

introduced in the same hydrothermal system responsible for the

precious-metal mineralization. The temperature of mineralization

apparently did not exceed 130°C. This surprising finding is confirmed

not only by pressure-corrected, fluid-inclusion homogenization

temperatures but also by temperature-dependent biomarker transformation

preserved by hydrocarbons in oil-rich fluid inclusions. There is a

distinct depletion in 1/16O of the oil-bearing ore bodies' wall rocks

relative to their unaltered and unmineralized counterparts. Two deep oil

wells completed in the immediate area penetrated neither intrusive rocks

nor sedimentary rocks hydrothermally altered at high temperatures. One

of these wells, just a mile from the ore bodies, bored through the

hydrocarbon source rocks, which at this location and depth were shown by

Rock-Eval pyrolysis to be near peak oil-gen

eration capacity. It now appears highly likely that the gold-depositing

hydrothermal system was directly responsible here for the generation,

migration, and entrapment of oil; however, we still do not know to what

extent, if any, the oil actually contributed to the mineralization

process. In other words, the formation of this particular fossil oil

reservoir may well have been just a beneficial side effect of the

ore-forming hydrothermal event. By contrast, at another oil-rich gold

deposit, Gold Point near Ely, we have determined that hydrocarbons were

crucial to mineralization, most likely providing highly adsorptive

substrates for electrum precipitation.

In huge Railroad Valley, about 25 km southwest of Gold Point and the

site of most of Nevada's oil production, our study of oil-well

drill-stem-test temperatures has indicated that the western side of this

fault-bounded valley is probably a major regional hydrologic downflow

zone, whereas the eastern side, along which the hottest oil fields

occur, is a region of localized geo

thermal upflow of the same waters. These geothermal plumes have fostered

the maturation of hydrocarbon source rocks as well as the migration and

entrapment of the newly generated oils. A pilot study of the regional

hydrocarbon-sealing mechanism in this valley has indicated that

volcanic-ash-rich beds at the base of the valley-fill sequence have been

widely altered to montmorillonite, thereby inhibiting the escape of oils

structurally entrapped in underlying Tertiary ignimbrites and brecciated

Paleozoic dolomites. At Kyle Hot Springs, near Winnemucca in western

Nevada, an active, moderate-temperature geothermal system has generated

paraffin-rich heavy crude oils from hypersaline-lacustrine Tertiary

source rocks, which are otherwise well below the favorable

oil-generation "window." The Kyle system, in a more energetic early

phase, also precipitated hydrocarbon- and gold-bearing siliceous sinter,

bolstering the geothermal/oil/gold connection we have been documenting

in the eastern part of the state.

GRANTEE: UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

Department of Geology and Geophysics

717 Browning Building

Salt Lake City, Utah 84112

GRANT: DE-FG03-93ER14313

TITLE: High Resolution Imaging of Electrical Conductivity Using Low

Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

PERSON IN CHARGE: Dr. Alan C. Tripp (801-462-2112 or 801-581-4664; Fax

801-581-7065; E-mail actripp@...)

Objectives: The project seeks to determine means of increasing the

resolution of low frequency electromagnetic techniques by means of an

optimal use of a priori information.

 

http://www.sc.doe.gov/production/bes/geo/Publications/FY96Summ/sect13.htm

 

 

 

And there is More company in Nevada:

 

 

Nevada

By OGJ editors

 

HOUSTON, Oct. 6 -- PetroWorld Nevada Corp., George Town, Grand Cayman, began acquiring 19 line-miles of 2D seismic data to verify closure on the Gabbs Valley prospect in western Nye County. Expected acquisition cost is $300,000.

 

PetroWorld has an exclusive agreement with Cortez Exploration LLC, holder of 90% equity interest in the 44,000-acre prospect, to acquire seismic data over the 12 by 7 mile surface anticline (OGJ Online, July 22, 2004). A well drilled by unrelated entities on the east side of the anticline established the presence of hydrocarbons in the Tertiary section.

 

Empire Petroleum Corp., Tulsa, Okla., holds the other 10%.

 

PetroWorld also holds oil and gas interests in Thailand.

 

 

Cheers,

Erich

[biochemrex]

A conference is being set up to formulate a cap to the price of oil - obviously out of fear that synthetic petrol or deep oil might put them out of business. Kieth

[erich]

A conference is being set up to formulate a cap to the price of oil - obviously out of fear that synthetic petrol or deep oil might put them out of business. Kieth

 

Please provide a link

[biochemrex]

Please provide a link

I heard it on the Radio, but no doubt if you do a google search you will get news reports and perhaps discussion? Keith

[erich]

Dear Folks:

How much oil is in Nevada?

Dr. Alan Chamberlain, this week, stated his estimates, that there is almost 1.9 TRILLION barrels of oil in the state. Mind you, since the 1850s, when the first oil was pumped in Pennsylvania, until now, total worldwide oil production is only 1 trillion barrels. Further, many experts (Deffeyes in Hubbert's Peak, for instance) believe that 2 trillion barrels is the total original world supply, meaning we only have 1 trillion left in the whole world. Chamberlain is now on the record as stating that he thinks there is roughly as much oil in Nevada as the rest of the world put together ever had. Any thoughts on this? If Eden Energy finds a couple of billion barrels, investors are rich beyond their collective imaginations; but a couple of trillion barrels?? That number just seems impossibly big.

 

Here's the link citing Chamberlain saying there are 1.89 trillion

barrels of oil in Nevada --

Geologist says White Pine must keep public lands open for oil exploration

Claims undiscovered oil reserves are '10 times' Saudi Arabia's

http://www.elynews.com/articles/2006/03/10/news/news03.txt

 

And last Friday, 3/24, there was a follow-up article --

 

County modifies wilderness area recommendations to allow oil and gas

exploration

Chamberlain identified an area in the White Pine Range in the

vicinity of Treasure Hill as one of the most important spots to search

for oil. . . He said the shale south of Wheeler Mountain is some of the richest organic material we've found in the state.

http://www.elynews.com/articles/2006/03/24/news/news04.txt

 

Also:

I saw an article about Chevron having a nanotech process for

tar sand oil that's so efficient that $35 oil will be profitable. What if they could develope this tech for CO2 injection?......

http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2179

 

 

 

From : http://forum.oilvoice.com/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=1

Posted - 30 March 2006 : 22:49:03

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Believe me, I have been a wellsite geologist for over 40 wells in that area, and the Mississippian Chainman is a loaded source rock. Everytime you drill through it you get massive oil shows from the shales. It is the primary source rock for what was at one time the largest producting well in the lower 48, Grant Canyon #3 (I believe it was at 4000 bbls a day for a number of years). The Blackburn field is also sourced by the Chainman, and some of the lower sands in the Chainman are also productive.

 

Paul Stiles

 

 

Erich J. Knight

[erich]

Here is a video of Alan Chamberlain's May 10 talk to Canada Oil Geologist, High lighting His 50 $million data set for the great basin:

 

Elephant Hunting Heating Up in the Great Basin

http://www.insinc.com/onlinetv/cspg09may2006/softvnetplayer.htm

 

Cheers,

Erich J. Knight

[Kayra]

The Chorus motors produce 300% more torque by overcoming harmonic drag and the Power Chip thermocouples may be up to 80% efficient. This means that with a hydrogen storage system that has an equal energy density to an average gas tank, this car would have a range of 1500 miles!

 

Careful with those %'s

They claim it is capable of 80% of Carnot efficiency.

BIG difference.

[erich]

Yes, the component Power Chips are 80% CARNOT, should have noted that, however all components put together and

Borealis expects their thermionic car to have a 50% ,total energy cost to miles driven, efficiency. That's where the 1500 mile range comes from.

 

 

On another thread http://hypography.com/forums/earth-science/3665-new-manhattan-project-clean-energy-5.html?highlight=erich I was speaking to total well to wheel efficiency, Or in that case well to rail.