So much they know, that is not so, is in most cases worse than outright ignorance. Any high school student could make the paradoxes go away. As drilling with rotary rigs became more common in the early 1900s, fishing methods adapted. This is called directional drilling and is increasingly popular in the oil and gas industry. Bertha Rogers. In this manner, they were able to eliminate rotation of the entire drill string above. Actually, the Earth does have a shell, called the crust. 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. This process is called orogeny, and has occurred many times in the history of the Earth. Research genealogy for Bertha Rogers of Faversham Kent England, as well as other members of the Rogers family, on Ancestry. Bertha was a daughter of the late Toy and Ada O'Quinn Jackson. In Arrhenius (1896, p. 237) we read: 205 Indian Lake Blvd. 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. Its not only not the worlds deepest oil well, its about 20,000 shy of the deepest oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, possibly deepest in the world. 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. Pretty much. AAPG 2007 Annual Convention, Long Beach, California, April 1-4, 2007. https://wordpress.com/post/debunkhouse.wordpress.com/6995 In June 6, 1979, one of the boreholes in Kola, SG-3, took the record. Natural gas (Henry Hub) = $2.70/mcf = $2.60/million Btu. Ive drilled wells deeper than 20,000 in the Gulf of Mexico. down the sun. The cable-tool rigs manila rope or wire line would break. A total of four oil producers and one gas injector were planned to develop the northern portion of the reservoir. In vertical holes, the measured depth equals the true vertical depth. These are the sorts of things that one learns when one studies a science like Geology. The rock bends and cracks, there are slumps and slides which displace large blocks away from the river mouths. 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). This isnt based on a theory. Its currently producing about 60,000 bbl/d and 110 mmcf/d (~78,000 BOE/d) from 8 wells And its still ramping up. I doubt there will ever be a day that no new textbooks are needed. Need to drink less and read more before I post. Horizontal drilling and fracing have enabled the direct production of oil from this source rock. Join in! It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970. Has any oil sample been found to scientifically date to prior to the beginning of the Triassic period, approx. The average bottom hole temperature of those ten 20 million barrel producers was 197F. 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. [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. Deeper sediments below 15,000 feet remain virtually unexplored. Well, does finding oil (petroleum) at over two miles below the surface support the abiotic theory of oil formation or not? That guy was brave. 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. Obviously someone else needs to summarize the paradoxes and the issues. . That is the current record for a depth reached by humans. Wells. 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. I have enjoyed it all and am now embarking on a more cerebral journey; equally as challenging! This can drop the rocks 20 plus km, which means its possible to have 20 km thick pile of sediment under 2 km of water. This is the essence of the shale revolution.. Wells and K.L. Keep up with Union University events on campus and student, faculty and alumni engagement around the world. Kenny A. Franks, The Oklahoma Petroleum Industry (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980). Start Trading CFDs Over 2,200 Different Instruments, Ukraine Calls On Western Allies To Approve Delivery Of Advanced Weaponry. These are the sort of questions that spur invention and lead to groundbreaking discoveries. Independent producer John West in 2006 preserved artifacts in the closed Anadarko Basin Museum of Natural History in Elk City, Oklahoma. 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. Unfortunately, not all news sources on the internet are familiar with it, so if you Google the worlds deepest oil field, the top results will tell you its either the O-14 or one of its Chayvo predecessors. In 1979 the No. People-Focused 731-668-1818, Hendersonville / Nashville Campus Some material from contributors may contain additional copyrights of their respective company or organization. Given what I know, drilling below 10 thousand meters vertical depth is a waste of money. Wow! Despite drillers trying to avoid having expensive tools jammed deep in the well, accidents happened. In an April 2019 article for climate change website Watts Up with That, David Middleton noted that the information about the deepest well was misleading because it was drilled directionally. Cost me his lunch at the MIT faculty cafeteria, plus a couple of months of rewrite to respond to his many pointed comments. 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. For years, this concept has served well as a working hypothesis for earth scientists. As depths increased, frequent stops were needed to bail out water and cuttings and sharpen the bits iron edge. This is a Forest Gump breakthrough. 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 ) 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. The guy had style though: He shot himself through the heart, not the head. 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. 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. Gordon Dressler at 4:28 pm (i.e., two miles subduction). https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/18/oil-where-did-it-come-from/. The geological paradoxes are interesting as there are now more than four paradoxes. The Lone Star Producing Company 1-27 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. My interest was in meteorology. Did anything ever become of that effort? It wasnt the last time Lone Star/Enserch turned an exploration well into a science project/engineering demonstration. 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. The Bakken & Three Forks are well-within the oil window. The Kola super-deep borehole wasnt drilled for hydrocarbons. Maybe slang isnt the right word, but its obviously a shorthand or informal way of referring to molecular breakdown. Drilling stopped there at six miles (9.65 kilometers) when the bit hit molten sulfur. The layered zones made it practical to dill these very deep wells as a field. She was born October 2, 1933 in English, West Virginia. That is amazing. More loosely, outside the field of petroleum chemistry, the term cracking is used to describe any type of splitting of molecules under the influence of heat, catalysts and solvents, such as in processes of destructive distillation or pyrolysis. The Kola Bore Hole Unfortunately for Lone Star, they didn't find any oil. Something written to stop the scientific examination of the paradox observations. Even so, Bertha Rogers reigned as the deepest well in the United States for three decades, finally exceeded in 2004., Although no gas was produced at its record depth, the well was successfully competed as a natural gas discovery at 13,000 feet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracking_(chemistry), Hey, I was pretty close for a simple explanation. 1 Sanders well near Sayre became Oklahoma's deepest gas producer at 24,996 feet. Maybe these guys are opposed to people producing heat of any kind? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFHtvDA0W34I&ved=2ahUKEwj73Ky8897hAhVDmIsKHbfZCfAQwqsBMAB6BAgGEAU&usg=AOvVaw3fMJb2nOZzbkk6cRpI1kqX. In this case I had filed this away for a couple of years. And just as compression can uplift the land, at other times this compression may slacked, and the uplifted terrain then gets stretched out and drops. 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. This is perhaps the most geologically ignorant sentence I have ever read After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft). Related: U.S. Shale Growth To Flatline Within 2 Years. 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? But also keep in mind that the places where oil and gas are recovered are not the source of the material, but simply a place where the right conditions exist to trap a large amount of it as it percolates upwards . Giving to Union 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. Most rotary fishing jobs were caused by twist offs (broken drill pipe), although the bit, drill coupling or tool joints may break or unscrew. Helium is recovered from produced natural gas as a byproduct. Sulfur melts at about 116 C, which is not all that hot, so why did the bit melt, or was that misinformation? Geologists knew far more about finding coal seams than characteristics of oil-bearing formations. Id hate to be pulling slips on that rig. However, by digging, we have only scratched the surface of our Earth - literally. It would be nice if there was a filter to block the word abiotic, or at least the words dinosaur and maybe Gold from the comments in Daves posts. Are the only acceptable fuels for people are the things they eat but not the fuel that powers machines used to help grow and harvest what people eat? I was going to check on those others, figuring they may all be wrong. Is hitting molten sulfur common? 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. Hes completely on top of his subject and a master of communication. In a note of totally unrelated trivia: Lone Star Producing became . Practically all of these discoveries developed at depths of less than ten thousand feet. Most of the seafloor has a thin veneer of sediment But, the depocenters have enormously thick sedimentary sequences. As one of my keepsakes I have very bottom 3 inches of the the 2 inch core. Ah, ok so its more of a slang term in the industry. In other words, the true vertical depth of the well is less than 1 km or 3,280 feet. The MD vs TVD issue even evaded the notice of the American Oil & Gas Historical Society. These are generally erosional surfaces that formed during the periods of uplift. While several of the media reports and the Fuel Fix infographic allude to drilling sideways or extended-reach, they all seem omit the word vertical. And all of them leave the reader with the impression that this is the deepest oil well ever drilled. This dinosaurs meme gets its start maybe from Sinclair and their wonderful logo and plastic green dinos at every station; or perhaps for those very entertaining Chevron TV commercials of the late 1970s and 80s. Or at least, such is my understanding, in a nutshell. I also worked on projects with 30 wells in a single drilling pad in Russia, and 28 heavy oil wells in Venezuela. 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. Dates. Drilling four times further in a horizontal direction than in a vertical direction is impressive indeed. Going much deeper would be incredibly dangerous, as limitations such as heat, humidity, logistics, and potential seismic activity all become more intense. Methane isnt oil. We know because of the deepest hole drilled by humans into the Earths crust. The Battle for the Truth about Global Warming, invaluable Steven F. Hayward, The Weekly Standard, changed the world and is one of the most influential resources on global warming. 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. Wells. The Bertha Rogers No. Bess Mills-Bullard, Digest of Oklahoma Oil and Gas Fields, Oklahoma Geological Survey Bulletin 40, Vol. 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. We acknowledge the Alaska Native nations upon whose ancestral lands our campuses reside. 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. Many of the executives had pieces of sulfur that were recovered from the Bertha Rogers well. Wells drilled here have been among the world's deepest. Digging a hole straight down would seem to be the most effective way to study the Earths interior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole, http://www.nationalacademies.org/history/mohole/. They drilled assuming it was an overthrust, and tried drilling through the granite, You can see the entire Anardako geological sequence on the road cuts as you drive I35 through the Arbuckle Mountains, the zones are laying sideways, Walk toward the fire. The greater the hole angle, the bigger the difference. The University of Alaska Fairbanks is an AA/EO employer and educational institution and prohibits illegal discrimination against any individual: Learn more about UA's notice of nondiscrimination. Because of dangerous downhole conditions, including corrosive pockets of hydrogen sulfide, the historic well had to be completed at a shallower depth. Denver, Colo : U.S. Dept. They couldnt drill any deeper, the well was unstable They shouldnt have drilled that deep. 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