- YouTube 0:00 / 2:10 The Kola Peninsula. Those are from the time when the Atlantic was just a rift valley or a narrow sea and vast amounts of sediments was eroded from the escarpments on both sides and deposited in the rift, together with salt from salt lakes and restricted hypersaline arms of the ocean. At the maximum rate, this would only account for 2200 m of sedimentation over two hundred million years . If oil companies (or any businesses) used EROEI to guide their investment decisions, they would go out of business (unless the government was footing the bill). Roughnecking jobs today are for sissies and weaklings. Reminds me of We will travel 20,000 leagues under the sea!. At 31,441 feet, the Bertha Rogers well held a record at the turn of the twenty-first century as the world's deepest producing well. Of course since it was in the tropics it didnt have the dynamics to be severe but Im sure if it had been over the island there would have been flooding. For years, this concept has served well as a working hypothesis for earth scientists. An abiogenic hypothesis for oil contained in subsurface geological formations was first proposed by Georgius Agricola in the 16th century, and most recently was popularized by Thomas Gold from 1980-2000. Probably not. https://wtf.tw/ref/tainter.pdf, https://youtu.be/GzuviYRse3E about 3 minutes. Unfortunately, at this depth the drillers struck liquid sulfur, which put an end to plans to continue drilling. More than 500 of her poems have been published in literary journals, and she had received eight nominations for the Pushcart Prize. That person has a low chance of ever getting themselves straightened out. Earth history is like a giant jigsaw puzzle melded to a mystery story, and figuring out what has happened by looking for various clues is what geologists spend a lot of time doing. Kenny A. Franks, The Oklahoma Petroleum Industry (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980). These natural waves allow us to see inside the Earth as they react to various layers, much as x-rays or MRIs allow us to view inside the human body. Some parts of this region were only kind of swampy, or were large lakes, etc. Did the oil form directly under the sands and rock of the peninsula strictly due to sedimentation? On April 13, 1974, Bertha Rogers No. 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. David Middleton, thank you for your very comprehensive, informative reply. The notion I have of oil has to do with sedimentation, not subduction. For more information, contact bawells@aoghs.org. Other times, when plates collide, one plate can be lifted onto another. 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. Heres what Wikipedia says about Lawn Chair Larry. I dont give energy back to the gas & electric companies in exchange for them being nice enough to heat and light my home. Ah, ok so its more of a slang term in the industry. 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. And further west, there is also a long history of various cycles and processes, including uplift, erosion, sedimentation, further uplift, etc. In many place around the globe oil is found below land surfaces that currently are hundreds to thousands of feet ABOVE sea level. I can sort of understand the use of abiotic. But, dinosaurs implies that there isnt even a starting point for communication. Salt and water are also less dense than most other overburden. 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. The Lone Star Producing Company 127 Bertha Rogers hole or well was an oil-exploratory hole drilled in Washita County, Oklahoma in 1974, and was the world's deepest hole[2] until it was surpassed in 1979 by the Kola Superdeep Borehole, dug by the USSR. BPs Tiber discovery on Keathley Canyon Block 102 logged oil pay below 30,000 TVD. A well that is 49,000 feet deep is, for example, deeper than the highest building in the worldthe Burj al Khalifa in Dubaiis tall. When wells are drilled, the depth is measured from a reference datum, usually the Kelly bushing (KB) of the drilling rig. The cost to drill a well is also much higher in real terms. Red areas indicate ~20,000 meter sediment thickness. The Quaternary can be more than 30,000 thick in some locations. However, if hydrocarbons (both gas and liquid) tend to percolate/migrate upward against gravity, as others have mentioned, one wonders what mechanism/geology is so effective at preventing gas diffusion for as long as 400 million years? So, the temperature in an ultradeep borehole is not just higher than surface temps: it tops 180 degrees Celsius at a depth of 12 km, or 39,370 feet. Pretty much. The deepest Bakken is about 8,500 below sea level. Union is nationally recognized for Christ-centered academic excellence and exceptional value. That guy was brave. Until the 1960s,few companies couldrisk millions of dollars and push rotary rig drilling technology to reach beyondthe 13,000-foot level in what geologists called the deep gas play.. 2) No reasonable explanation for why hypothesized abiotic oil production would have peaked 70-200 Ma ago and declined since then. David is ignorant and uninterested concerning the geological paradoxes. The goal was to reach a discontinuity between the upper mantle and the Earths crust called the Mohorovicic discontinuity - commonly termed the "Moho." This is a place where a salt water sea exists, connected to the ocean but underlain by continental crust. The rigs in North Dakota are large because supporting two miles of pipe takes a lot of steel. Where they were digging, the Moho is 16,000 ft deep, so the team fell far short of their goal. Fourier maintained that the atmosphere acts like the glass of a hothouse, because it lets through the light rays of the sun but retains the dark rays from the ground. The short answer is no, because there is one little catch: directional drilling. This could possibly account for molten sulfur. Oil does not come from plants and dinosaurs at 40,000 feet. Algae and phytoplankton arent dinosaurs and are not exactly plants either. Photo courtesy Library of Congress. Which typically means it must be porous, and capped by an overlying layer of impermeable material. The greater the hole angle, the bigger the difference. Learn more about UAs notice of web accessibility. My apologies to all. But then he looked back up and saw his balloon receding away. The bottom line isnt denominated in joules, watts or Btu Its denominated in $$$. Please report any problems or feedback concerning this website to uaf-rcs@alaska.edu. One of the more interesting was the Lone Star Producing Companys Bertha Rogers #1 in the Anadarko Basin of Oklahoma. Where applicable, the oil has been dated and matched to geochemically consistent kerogen in source rocks. Wells. Now I hear they are leasing drilling beneath the gas pay zones. All of the wells are tiebacks. Did it ever pay out the cost of drilling to 31,000? It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970. 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. The tops of the extensive squall line were well over 10000ft above me! 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. We also plugged back and made a gas completion at 12,800 feet. It works both ways. After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft). Research genealogy for Bertha Rogers of Faversham Kent England, as well as other members of the Rogers family, on Ancestry. She was a former employee of Raytheon and retired from Bristol Tennessee School System after 24 years. Is the U.S. After my first Physical Geology class in September 1976, I realized that I knew even less than I thought I did . Fingernails can grow a lot in 4,500,000,000 years. The Tiber wells depth - true vertical depth - was more than 35,000 feet. At least it is easier than ever to check stuff, but the problem is, one has to have the idea that something is wrong or at least dubious, in order to make a decision to check. Youve gotta wonder how high they were when they made that graphic. Using nails and wax, an impression block helps determine what is stuck downhole. 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Thanks for this precautionary tale of internet inaccuracies, illustrating succinctly why skepticism is an intrinsic part of a rational mind. After all, the purpose of Rosneft and Exxon was to pump oil, not see how far they can go into the ground: a feat in which serious challenges abound. They work by preventing the warm air inside from convecting away from the surface. Digging a hole straight down would seem to be the most effective way to study the Earths interior. In some places the crust wrinkled into mountains, at various times and places. Saint Helens, I say Saudia Arabia peninsula. Were sticking needles deep into Mother GAIA!!!! Sorry if this was OT. We acknowledge the Alaska Native nations upon whose ancestral lands our campuses reside. David, thank you very much for the bar chart graphics from Grunau and Klemme & Ulmeshek. ROBERT ALEXANDER HEFNER III, PETROLEUM INDUSTRY. However, by digging, we have only scratched the surface of our Earth - literally. 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). Her most recent poetry collection, Heart Turned Back, was published by Salmon Poetry, Ireland, in 2010. Much of the oil off the coast of places like Santa Barbara, California is now reachable from onshore drilling. Most of the seafloor has a thin veneer of sediment But, the depocenters have enormously thick sedimentary sequences. The shallow horizons of Greater Anadarko account for much of this nations proved gas reserves. Practically all of these discoveries developed at depths of less than ten thousand feet. Horizontal drilling and fracing have enabled the direct production of oil from this source rock. We're home to five men's and six women's athletics teams and a variety of intramural sports opportunities. In percussion drilling, the heavy cable-tool assembly could get jammed in the borehole and could no longer be repeatedly lifted and dropped. The Hugoton Embayment of the Anadarko Basin is 5,000 feet vertical TD. Is hitting molten sulfur common? According to what we have learned this week, thereare three ways to approach an argument. And the ones over the ITCZ in the deep tropics can be 80,000. The Wikipedia on that borehole says that the sulfur melted the drill bit, and that is why they stopped? Wells drilled here have been among the worlds deepest. I worked for Enserch from 1981-1997. Methane isnt oil. P.S. I was just looking at one report of a storm near the Texas Mexico border than reached 75,000. Drilling stopped there at six miles (9.65 kilometers) when the bit hit molten sulfur. Future-Directed, Employee Directory
Some observers classified it as an ultra-deep dry hole.. I was at a lecture regarding super-volcanoes the Bruneau/Jarbidge in sw Idaho. Cost me his lunch at the MIT faculty cafeteria, plus a couple of months of rewrite to respond to his many pointed comments. The fact that ExxonMobil geos identified the oil rims from seismic anomalies (multiple flat-spots) with sufficient confidence that they got the Chayvo-6A well drilled is possibly the most impressive thing. If you believe that water fills the pore space, how could you also think this? Actually, the Earth does have a shell, called the crust. Terms of Use About the Encyclopedia. Organic geochemical analyses of fine-grained rocks from the 9.590 km Bertha Rogers No. Last Updated: December 26, 2022. It had to do with the original of the term greenhouse effect, and the various attributions thereof. Independent producer John West in 2006 preserved artifacts in the closed Anadarko Basin Museum of Natural History in Elk City, Oklahoma. When the overburden consists of 8,000 of seawater and 2,000 of halite, 30,000 of overburden weighs a lot less than it does when its all composed of more dense rocks. However, valuable core samples were obtained and a lot was learned about deep sea drilling. Once all well fishing tools failed, a final resort was a whipstock, which allowed the bit to angle off and actually bypass the fish to leave the operator with a deviated hole. Separately, do you know if oil extracted from vertical depths greater than, say, 5,000 m (~16,000 ft TVD) below land/seafloor surface has ever been scientifically age-dated? The operation repeated until the lowest piece was reached. And over long periods of time, the plates can smash into each other, or be ripped apart, etc. This also happened in the Western US in the recent geologic past, giving rise to what is called the basin and range province, as the crust broke into large blocks and some of the tilted a certain way. Yes, it is hard for me to understand this observation without appealing to vertical land motion associated with subduction. Noctilucent clouds can be several times as high as nacreous clouds. It is not oil or gas that is being sought with the Kola well, but an understanding of the nature of the earth's crust. Drilling usually would continue into the night, illuminated by two-wicked yellow dog lanterns. The geological paradoxes are interesting as there are now more than four paradoxes. No. The sub word most relevant to sedimentation is subsidence although subduction can create accommodation space for sedimentation. Am I still allowed to use a lighter to light my cigarette or do I need to go back to matches? A spud was then employed. (and the stress creates, among other things, the San Andreas Fault, the Sierra Madrea, and the Rockies). If the energy return goes to less than about 12X the energy invested we are in trouble. Bertha was a lifelong resident of the Bristol area and a charter member of Eastern Heights Presbyterian Church. Given what I know, drilling below 10 thousand meters vertical depth is a waste of money. But is the O-14 really 49,000 feet deep? They can fill in. The very low INDICATED sedimentation depth in the oceans far removed from the continental shelves must be the result of both seafloor spreading and subduction, and neither process occurs is the areas of deep red (greatest vertical depth of sediment) indicated in the NOAA plot: the Gulf of Mexico and the western part of the Indian Ocean. Wells and K.L. Has any oil sample been found to scientifically date to prior to the beginning of the Triassic period, approx. 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. Its currently producing about 60,000 bbl/d and 110 mmcf/d (~78,000 BOE/d) from 8 wells And its still ramping up. John Livingston Grandin dug his well nearby using a simple spring pole but soon wedged his iron chisel downhole. The Bakken & Three Forks are well-within the oil window. Wells. , 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. Organic geochemical analyses of fine-grained rocks from the 9.590 km Bertha Rogers No. Prior to this, the deepest well was the 31,441 feet deep Lone Star Producing Co. 1-27 Bertha Rogers well in Washita County, Oklahoma. The Pacific plate is not being subducted beneath North America at the present time. 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. 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. The project cost over $100 million, which is about $2500 per foot. We seem to be living through a period of time where facts have become pass. Ill just keep drinking and reading. The zones were layers, about 7 potential zones, the Granite Wash was the last one to test as you came uphole. Rosneft states it on its website, in a press release on the completion of O-14, that the total depth of the well, including the vertical and the directional section, is 15 km, of which the non-vertical section extends 14.13 km, or 46,900 feet. A pipe connection might bend. 731-668-1818, Hendersonville / Nashville Campus
Natural gas (Henry Hub) = $2.70/mcf = $2.60/million Btu. Many holes have been dug for both research and commercial purposes. The problem I see is that rocks found below about 7 km of sediment tend to be low quality, temperature and pressure increase to the outer limits, and this hurts the economic returns to such an extent that looking for that deep oil can be a dicey business. There is also narrow basins with thick sediments along much of the coasts of the Atlantic. While the Chayvo wells are impressive in terms of measured depth, they arent particularly deep. In 1979, the No. Traces of octane and other heavier hydrocarbons, presumably formed by the Fischer-Tropsch process have been detected at the Mid-Atlantic Lost City hydrothermal vent. Join AOGHS and support historical content on this website. That email address is already in the database. The most slots on a fixed platform (the largest category) in the Gulf of Mexico (US OCS) is 62 on the Mississippi Canyon 194 Cognac facility in 1,023 WD. Searching for oil was less an earth science and more an art in the exploration and production industrys earliest days. In this manner, they were able to eliminate rotation of the entire drill string above. If buried deep enough the sulfur will undoubtedly melt naturally. I remember being told once that the USGS had a sort of gentlemans agreement with at least some of the oil companies that if they hit economic basement, they should keep drilling long enough to recover enough rock to characterize it. The referenced well being about 30,000 shy of 40,000 deep didnt exactly help the narrative . Its safe to assume that over these past ten years, the average well depth has only increased from there. It conducts heat away from the substrata toward the surface. I also worked on projects with 30 wells in a single drilling pad in Russia, and 28 heavy oil wells in Venezuela. 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. 21, 2017, 7:33 PM. 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. Nonporous shale is shattered by high pressure fluids, and then the cracks are propped open with sand or some such material. I spend money to fill my gas tank. In rotary drilling, the only tools ordinarily used in the well are the drill pipe and bits, Day noted, adding that the rotary fishing tools, were comparatively free from the complexities of cable-tool work.. On top of the range there is a strange, flat plateau. Keep up with Union University events on campus and student, faculty and alumni engagement around the world. 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." [4], Oil-exploratory borehole in Washita County, Oklahoma, United States, "Summary of Deep Oil and Gas Wells and Reservoirs in the U.S.", "Oklahoma Corporation Commission completion report (form 1002A) dated September 3, 1974", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bertha_Rogers&oldid=1071960965, Buildings and structures in Washita County, Oklahoma, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 15 February 2022, at 07:42. I could spend 2 Btu of natural gas to produce 1 Btu of oil and make over a 2:1 return on capital. 2181 Union Ave.
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. 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. Copyright to all articles and other content in the online and print versions of The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History is held by the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS). 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. It was completed as as gas well in the Granite Wash at about 13,000. This article takes us on a very interesting walk-about below ground. As in cable-tool fishing, an impression block often was needed to determine the proper fishing tool. And the hotter it gets, the drier the gas. In 1926, British geophysicist Harold Jeffreys proposed that this transition zone within the crust, identifiable on seismic records around most of the world as a "jump" in seismic velocity, could be attributed to a change in rock type from granite to a denser "basement" of basalt (basalts can be seen at the surface when they emerge as lava flows). Very happy to have the memory of this and many more close shaves but I have moved on to live a very full and exciting life. I know where oil does not come from, plants and dinosaurs at 40,000 feet. Well, does finding oil (petroleum) at over two miles below the surface support the abiotic theory of oil formation or not? This is a Forest Gump breakthrough. 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. Mrs. Rogers was born in Halifax County, VA on July 5, 1940 to the late Albert Nick Stanfield and Bertha McCargo Stanfield and was married to the late James Lowell Rogers. In the worlds deepest gold mine, workers will venture 2.5 miles (4 km) below the Earths surface to extract from a 30-inch (0.8m) wide vein of gold-rich ore. Blasphemy! The Bakken is Devonian. The U.S. Labor Department describes an Oil Well Fishing Tool Technician (Occupational Title 930.261-010) as an occupation that analyzes conditions of unserviceable oil or gas wells and directs use of special well-fishing tools and techniques to recover lost equipment and other obstacles from boreholes of wells,, The government description adds that the technician plans fishing methods, selects tools, and directs drilling crew in applying weights to drill pipes, in using special tools, in applying pressure to circulating fluid (mud), and in drilling around lodged obstacles or specified earth formations, using whipstocks and other special tools.. UmJeff, pretty sure DM just gave you the opposite of a slang definition. The most prolific source rocks are organic-rich (total organic carbon (TOC) >5%) marine shale formations, deposited under anoxic conditions. It fits perfectly with the point of the article. Those that hit one of the deep productive zones had an extremely long production life for a gas well, and still had all the remaining upper zones remaining to complete in the future. North American Brine Resources operates a plant near Dover, Oklahoma. 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). 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. In other words, the true vertical depth of the well is less than 1 km or 3,280 feet. 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. Submit a Correction 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. 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