While they do not appear to based on directly dating the hydrocarbons, the geological strata referenced and those strata in which hydrocarbons have NOT been found in any significant quantity does, to me, seem to rule out the abiotic oil theory on the following grounds: Union's variety of organizations, events and sports offers something for everyone. wildcat well to a depth of 31,441 feet (9,583 m) in Beckham County, Okla., in the Anadarko basin. MarkW, well, one fairly comprehensive research paper Variation of ocean sediment thickness with crustal age, by Peter Olson, Evan Reynolds, Linda Hinnov, and Arghya Goswami, published online 17 APR 2016, and available for download at https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2015GC006143 ) I ask this in the context of modern fracking technology, such as might be employed in the UK in Lancashire, if the political hurdles are ever overcome (which I now doubt they ever will be). As drilling with rotary rigs became more common in the early 1900s, fishing methods adapted. 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. Summary. Organic geochemical analyses of fine-grained rocks from the 9.590 km Bertha Rogers No. Website Name: American Oil & Gas Historical Society. Was this the first time it occurred? 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. Despite drillers trying to avoid having expensive tools jammed deep in the well, accidents happened. This mud log sample shows drilling rate and lithology from 4700 ft to . The well set a world record and remains one of the deepest ever drilled. 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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.. The Cenozoic section, alone, is more than 40,000 thick in places. In June 6, 1979, one of the boreholes in Kola, SG-3, took the record. In 2011, a 40,502-foot well was drilled offshore of the Russian island of Sakhalin. New ocean crust is always forming at the undersea places called mid-ocean ridges. Fuel Fighter sells home heating oil in the UK Yet this has been treated as if it was an actual oil industry source. This is perhaps the most geologically ignorant sentence I have ever read. 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. 2181 Union Ave. Jonathon Moseley, American Thinker, flashy (apparently widely distributed) Michael E. Mann, Material on this website is copyright 2006-2022, by Anthony Watts, and may not be stored or archived separately, rebroadcast, or republished without written permission. So I got a few numbers wrong but hey that is why I dropped the bits of science I did not like at school to concentrate on the real important stuff like real sciencesocial science. And would you please compare the areal extent of Mt. I especially like how they depict it as soil the entire way down. Sometimes a wood, wax and nails impression block was first lowered to get an idea of what lay downhole. There is some technical speculation/research that a portion of earths crust melted when the planet type body hit earth and formed the moon. 901-759-0029, Midtown / Memphis Campus 1050 Union University Drive Dinosaur carcasses are (rarely) found in marine sedimentary deposits (including shales), presumably after coming down a river or possibly washed out to sea by hurricanes or tsunamis. We had a five man crew. This project, which was intended to penetrate the shallow crust under the Pacific Ocean off Mexico, was abandoned in 1966 because of lack of funding. However, by digging, we have only scratched the surface of our Earth - literally. Natural gas (Henry Hub) = $2.70/mcf = $2.60/million Btu. Maybe slang isnt the right word, but its obviously a shorthand or informal way of referring to molecular breakdown. Just four days after the August 27, 1859, first U.S. oil discovery by Edwin L. Drake in Pennsylvanias valley that changed the world, a far less known oil industry pioneer began Americas second well to be drilled for petroleum. I doubt there will ever be a day that no new textbooks are needed. . Given the technology and funds, geologists would like to try to go deeper for core samples, but digging such holes requires much patience, money, technology, and luck. While the Chayvo wells are impressive in terms of measured depth, they arent particularly deep. Searching for oil was less an earth science and more an art in the exploration and production industrys earliest days. They couldnt drill any deeper, the well was unstable They shouldnt have drilled that deep. If one says subduction, I say Mt. Downstream from the Himalaya and the Rockies respectively. Oklahoma extracts the brine from a 9,800 feet (3,000 m) deep well. My gas & electric bills are paid for with money. 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. 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 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. In any case, how much sediments exist and how they got there are not particularly germane to the question of the. From the article: The measured depth (MD) of the worlds deepest oil well is over 40,000. 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. 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). Consider sandstone reservoirs vs chalk reservoirs. Merchant of Record: A Media Solutions trading as Oilprice.com. For permission, contact us. In some places the crust wrinkled into mountains, at various times and places. I flamed out one engine in my F-4 at M1.6 (but very little indicated airspeed) at 65000ft on the TexArkana border. I suppose molten sulfur would count as economic basement. U.S. petroleum history provides a context for understanding how to meet Americas future energy needs. Even as drilling technologies evolved from spring poles and cable tools to modern rotary rigs, downhole problems remained especially as wells reached new depths (learn more about development of rotary rigs in Making Hole Drilling Technology). Well, very deep. About 10,000 to 11,000 below the surface well within the oil window. UmJeff, pretty sure DM just gave you the opposite of a slang definition. The layered zones made it practical to dill these very deep wells as a field. The Kola Peninsula. Notice where the two large areas with really thick sediments are: Gulf of Bengal and Mexican Gulf. A shame that the fantastic achievements of this industry are ignored or dismissed by by so many, and of course especially by the [arts-dominated] mainstream media. At this time development was deferred. That was not drilling for oil, though. I could spend 2 Btu of natural gas to produce 1 Btu of oil and make over a 2:1 return on capital. Employment A trip meant 8 hours around the rotatory table for each crew. 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. The 22-year-old Grandin improvised his own well fishing tools, but not only lost his drill bit (an industry first), he ended up with Americas first dry hole among other petroleum industry milestones. Well fishing tools are constantly being improved and new ones introduced, explained David T. Day in his A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry in 1922. Simple sedimentary loading is one. Ill just keep drinking and reading. Much information comes from such holes; for example, the bottom of this hole was about 370F (190C). Heres a cross section of the Williston Basin in North Dakota. Get to know us - Dr Bertha Rogers At our practice in Oxford Circus (W1W), all of our therapists are qualified psychologists, psychotherapists or counsellors. 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. Many lost tools that cannot be recovered are drilled up or side-tracked (driven into or against the wall) and passed in drilling, Day explained. Im late to this post and made a comment that will appear above. Drilling stopped there at six miles (9.65 kilometers) when the bit hit molten sulfur. The structure of the deep Earth is studied today by means that are more indirect. People-Focused I think they are dangerous when not clearly marked as primarily wild eyed guesswork. which consist of Aristotle, Rogers, and Toulmin. I recall the interview I saw, in which after he stepped off his platform, he thought he was not falling and was going to die when his oxygen ran out, since he was so high there was no sensation of wind rushing past him. The MD vs TVD issue even evaded the notice of the American Oil & Gas Historical Society. A total of four oil producers and one gas injector were planned to develop the northern portion of the reservoir. 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. 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. Anyway, when I first saw the graphic, I immediately thought of the story of Joe Kittinger, who went all the way up past 100,000 in a helium balloon back in 1960. It generally cant exist at depths anywhere close to the mantle. Dates. All you need for a sediment to form is a place with a higher elevation, and then erosion, and then time. To effectively drain the east and west flanks of this reservoir, record-length wells beyond the current extended reach drilling (ERD) envelope were required. Saint Helens, I say Saudia Arabia peninsula. Way out of my comfort zone and not trying to speak for DM, but cracking I think is an industry term for the breakdown of long petroleum hydrocarbon chains into smaller ones, I guess which occurs at higher temperatures. If the oldest oil sampled is not much beyond 400 million years age (~start of Carboniferous period), I believe that would be the nail in the coffin for the abiotic theory of oil. 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). 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. 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. That is amazing. 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? The Bakken formation lies between 4500 ft. to 11,000 ft. with the Three Forks formation below it. Obituary. Bertha Rogers Well Location Location Burns Flat, Dill City, Oklahoma, USA state Oklahoma Country USA Coordinates Coordinates: 3519N9911W / 35.31N 99.19W / 35.31; -99 Production Products Natural Gas Type Gas Well Greatest depth 31,441 feet (9,583 m) History Opened 1974 Closed 1997 Owner Company Lone Star Producing Company 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. But is the O-14 really 49,000 feet deep? The Bakken & Three Forks are well-within the oil window. Key challenges included high torque and drag, wellbore positioning in a thin oil column, wellbore stability, long horizontal completions, and downhole tool telemetry. In 2008, an oil well was drilled to 40,318 feet in Qatar. The United States began a similar investigation, called Project Mohole, in 1961. By true vertical depth: Bertha Rogers No. The Chayvo prospect was first identified on 2d seismic surveys in 1971, drilled in 1979 and assessed as a gas resource in 1982. , 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. Ghawars source rocks are an organic-rich Silurian shale formation. That record, of course, is over 16,000 feet. And its not like petroleum explorationists have had to look deeper for oil, well look wherever the technology allows us to go. Rotten dinosaurs, honest! But even back then and especially now with wells miles deep and often turned horizontally when a downhole problem occurred, the well could be lost for good. 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. The worst part of it is, most of them think they have a pretty good idea about stuff they know zero about. But this still needs subduction because the carbonates had to get there somehow. We would all like to know what is inside the Earth. 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. 615-447-2500, Germantown / Memphis Campus Join in! Probably not. I know where oil does not come from, plants and dinosaurs at 40,000 feet. Unfortunately, at this depth the drillers struck liquid sulfur, which put an end to plans to continue drilling. This being the case, and the places where this is true being relatively rare, it has to be assumed that most of the oil in gas below ground never percolates into such a place. In 1979 the No. Wells and K.L. Reminds me of We will travel 20,000 leagues under the sea!. It reached 40,230 feet deep. In challenging the inventive enterprise of Americas energy industry, this Basin will remain the heartland of technology in penetrating the earths crust. Athletics 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. Wells drilled here have been among the worlds deepest. In 1979, the No. Office of the World Energy Resources Program. 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. 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. (Miriam OBrien aka slandering Sou from Hotwhopper, that means you.). It is produced by bacterial action when hydrocarbons come into contact with sulfate minerals (which are plentiful in salt deposits). Thanks! Bad and unhealthy habit.) I will cease asking questions on this subject matter in deference to those I have obviously upset. The most slots on a Spar platform is 20 on the Genesis A facility on Green Canyon 205 in 2,590 WD and on the Holstein A facility on Green Canyon 645 in 4,340 WD. 1 barrel of crude oil = 5,722,000 Btu 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! Subscribe Now, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program. Places like the Great Salt Lake (the remains of a huge place called Lake Bonneville) are depositing a type of sediment called an evaporite at the margins and bottoms. 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. 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. My response: I believe liquid water is found in sedimentary strata around planet Earth . 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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_(chemistry), Hey, I was pretty close for a simple explanation. The bottom line isnt denominated in joules, watts or Btu Its denominated in $$$. Several separate mountain ranges have been uplifted and eroded away. Multiple sources say something to this effect: On November 26, 2005, Vijaypat Singhania set the world altitude record for highest hot-air-balloon flight, reaching 21,290 m (69,850 ft). Salt and water are also less dense than most other overburden. Id take some time to reply, but unfortunately, Im expecting a call on the geophone from my friend, Moho. 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. Apparently, 12 kilometers was the maximum at the time before technical difficulties related to pressure, resistance, and heat became overwhelming. The most slots on a TLP (tension leg platform) is 32 on the Auger A facility on Garden Banks 426 in 2,860 WD. It was March 1974 and the enormous investment of Lone Star Producing Company of Dallas, and partner GHK Company of Oklahoma City, was about to be lost. I recalled a paper on the geology/geophysics of the Chayvo field I knew the TVDs were unremarkable, but I just never had the time to look up the drilling details. Geologists knew far more about finding coal seams than characteristics of oil-bearing formations. If one is aware that they do not know something, it is possible to learn, easy even. Im not sure it is more close to reality than an Iron man action sequence and in fact it was created using the same technologies used to make the Marvel films. . Contact Us The deepest hole within the U.S. is the Bertha Rogers gas well in Oklahoma at 32,000 feet (6 miles) deep. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/03/11/another-failed-energy-prediction-peak-oil-demand/, Subduction and burial (i.e., sedimentation) are two completely different processes. Any high school student could make the paradoxes go away. Christ-Centered It can take 100s of thousands to millions of years for oil & gas to form and then begin the long, slow process of migration from the source rocks into porous and permeable reservoir rocks with overlying impermeable rocks and lateral trapping mechanisms. 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. Indeed the reply is usually Well those are just your numbersand if I push the point further that they are not my numbers but the real data the reply is usually either that I work in the oil industry so am automatically biased or that they do not want to discuss this anymore with a denier or finally I get the nail in the head, the infantile consensus argument. The deepest well ever drilled for any reason, the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia, only went down 40,230 feet. 10 miles is 52,800 feet. Shells Perdido spar on Alaminos Canyon 857 in 7,835 WD has no slots. Charles N. Gould, "The Anadarko Basin," Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City), 1 April 1934. The technology for mining the depths at which the solutions occur, however, is not yet available. abiotic theory of oil formation. That first map chart showing highest clouds at 29,000 feet is ridiculously wrong, as I am sure most people here know. Other plates have been, and still are, doing so. 1 (July 1928). .. In Fairbanks, our Troth Yeddha' Campus is located on the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River. I was at a lecture regarding super-volcanoes the Bruneau/Jarbidge in sw Idaho. The bottomhole temperature was 475 F (246 C) and the pressure was pushing 25,000 psi. The era of the gushers when oil didnt just flow out but burst out, is long over. Bertha Rogers is a poet, teaching artist, and founding director of Bright Hill Press and Literary Center in New York's Catskill Mountain Region. This process is called orogeny, and has occurred many times in the history of the Earth. And the hotter it gets, the drier the gas. 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. indicates a global average ocean sedimentation rate of about 5 meters per million years, with a range of 1 to 11 m/Ma covering all the worlds oceans. 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. 205 Indian Lake Blvd. Helium. Privacy Policy, Main Campus Deeper wells have been drilled for natural gas. All of these have bottomhole temperatures less than 300 F. The average bottom hole temperature of those ten 20 million barrel producers was 197F. There is a girl who somehow survived being sucked up into a huge thunderstorm in Australia while hang gliding, and wound up 10,000 meters high, at -55, unconscious, alone, and far above the death zone. Much depended upon the skill and patience of the driller.. "Anadarko Basin," Vertical File, Research Division, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City. In our close-knit learning community, top-tier academics and Christian faith are integrated in 100 programs of study. 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. It was completed in a Lower Tertiary Wilcox sandstone (26,831 27,385). Methane isnt oil. On November 26, 2005, Vijaypat Singhania set the world altitude record for highest hot-air-balloon flight, reaching 21,290 m (69,850 ft) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record#Hot-air_balloons, And for good measure, renown hang glider pilot, Judy Leden broke the World Hang Gliding Altitude Record by being towed to 41,307 feet by a hot air balloon. Wow! All rights reserved. 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.. Cost me his lunch at the MIT faculty cafeteria, plus a couple of months of rewrite to respond to his many pointed comments. Just-So stories in the garb of hypotheses support many current theories. 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? It fits perfectly with the point of the article. BTW, that chart did list the highest height for a hot air balloon, but not for a guy in a lawn chair with a six-pack of Miller beer. In re-energizing America, Anadarko will not yield its gas easily or briefly. In drilling, its all about pressure and resistance. Coral Reefs are Dying Because of Climate Change, Coal Pollution Can Be Seen Pouring From Power Plant Smokestacks, Greenland Ice Loss Will Cause Dangerous Sea Level Rise, Sea Level Rise is Accelerating Dramatically, The Global Temperature Record Says We Are in a Climate Emergency, The 130-Degree F Reading in Death Valley Is A World Record, Unprecedented Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest was Driven by Climate Change. It was completed as as gas well in the Granite Wash at about 13,000. David Middleton, It's especially expensive when you factor in all of the cost of deep-bore oil extraction, including the energy expended to do it and the amount of contaminated process water. 2022 Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks. 21, 2017, 7:33 PM. Since then, numerous gas wells have been drilled there below the twenty thousand foot range, including the Lone Star Bertha Rogers in Beckham County. And Im not even factoring in the compaction of the sediments as they pile up. Rough schematic comparing relative dimensions of earth's crustal thickness, depth of the Kola well, and height of Mt. http://old.fai.org/news/personalities/35338-judyleden, While not a hot air balloon, Joe Kittinger jumped out of a balloon gondola at 102,800, http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2014/August 2014/Kittinger.aspx, Yeah, but did she do it with no oxygen or even a heavy coat? 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