Peak Oil- what it is and how it will impact your life

Discussion in 'Peak Oil' started by Minuteman, Aug 4, 2005.


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  1. Minuteman

    Minuteman Chaplain Moderator Founding Member

    It has been used for many years but in some very rudimentary form. In the 20's they would lower a barrel of nitroglycerin on a wire cable. Then they would drop what they called a "go devil ".basically a weighted bar with a hook that went around the cable.
    They would drop it and run like hell. LOL.
    Directional drilling was first used in California around the same period. They would put a rig on the beach and drill at an angle out under the ocean.
    Those technologies from back then are unrecognizable today. The advancements, even in the last couple.of decades is phenomenal. Spurred on by the higher price of oil. Directional companies today claim that if you could bury a coke can 10,000 foot deep, anywhere in a mile radius that they could drill into it. I don't personally vouch for that but I wouldn't bet against it either. I have seen them do some amazing things with directional drilling. And I was doing 15,000 psi fracs in Saudi just a few years ago. The equipment to handle that kind of pressures didn't exist until the last decade. So to claim that those technologies have been around for decades is technically true but shows a person's ignorance if they claim that they are in any way comparable to today's technology. It would be like comparing the Wright Brothers plane to a modern super sonic jet. Yeah,not even close to the same thing.
     
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  2. Dunerunner

    Dunerunner Brewery Monkey Moderator

    This stops being a discussion when it becomes argumentative.
     
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  3. JohnnyOnTheFarm

    JohnnyOnTheFarm Monkey++

    Worked for a geologic/engineering consulting firm as an intern in college. Started off at the bottom in field operations out of college as a petroleum engineer, as prices were quite low after the 1979 global peak oil. Went on to well tending as a promotion back then. Got into MWD when it was new. Then LWD. Then directional driller first in Canada, then with Eastman Christensen, GOM and Gulf Coast. Took the pay cut to get back into the office. Ran a 1000 well E&P, shale wells primarily, first as a completion engineer (multistage slick water fracturing in shales), later acquisitions, moved to management of engineering and science teams in a billion dollar bankruptcy, all related to reserve and resource evaluations. Left industry for research, spent 15 years working in geomathematics, resource assessments and appraisals, published in the usual science rags, presentations at all the national conferences, then began consuting for majors, later as a consultant for foreign governments when shale development began to get noticed. Now finishing up a lifetime in industry, applying that industry experience and scientific capabilities in conjunction with economics and market factors to create practical aplications at the domestic and global level for folks who pay better than indsutry does.

    Your lifetime in industry was spent...toolpushing?
     
  4. JohnnyOnTheFarm

    JohnnyOnTheFarm Monkey++

    You are repeating what those original links provided by MinuteMan were pimping 17 years ago. Have you had any trouble with the claimed 2005 peak oil in terms of finding food or anything? I bought EVs for the obvious reasons...they are cheap to run compared to ICE powered machines. Plus the wife and I get free fuel for them at work. And sure, I still use oil products. Good thing those pimping it back in 2005 didn't know anything about peak oil, its timing, or consequences. Someone told me it happened again, globally, back in 2018? The 1979 global peak struck me as far worse, in terms of stagflation and the increased prices and whatnot.
     
  5. JohnnyOnTheFarm

    JohnnyOnTheFarm Monkey++

    I've kicked off wells using a mud motor with the BHA in the slips. Somewhere in Saskatchewan if memory serves, back in the last century. Had the entire rig shaking. I spent about 4 years running a production outfit, responsible for all operations, surface instrastructure, dealing with landowners, P&A, I've plugged wells that didn't have API numbers they were so old, some had wooden casing. Blown up the casing while completing and received Old Faithful in exchange, been out in -20F weather trying to unfreeze valves in my welltending days. The good ol' days, horizontal drilling, completion and production operations.
     
  6. JohnnyOnTheFarm

    JohnnyOnTheFarm Monkey++

    I was doing multi-stage slickwater hydraulic fracturing back in the late 1980's. Trained by folks who had been doing it for at least a decade or two earlier. According to the EPA and USGS, 2/3's of ALL hydraulic fracturing had taken place in the 20th century, not the 21st. This was circa 2015 or so if I recall the reference correctly. Hubbert was discussing, and doing some excellent research on, rock mechanics. from the first 100,000 frack jobs...in 1956 I believe. Yes..it has been going on for awhile.
     
  7. Minuteman

    Minuteman Chaplain Moderator Founding Member

    It wasn't as an engineer in an office dealing with theoretical situations
    It was in the field dealing with the realities. Spent most of my time explaining to engineers why that wouldn't work. Last 15 years as a Company Man for the largest oil company in the world.

    As it seems you are only here to post in this one thread I'm sure you haven't explored the rest of the site. The numbers referenced in the posts. "That's 4" "Thats 5" are the allowed rebuttals to any subject. Anyone wanting to argue a point relentlessly will not be allowed. Any arguments are limited to 5 posts. The OP (original post/poster) a response to that topic. The OP gets a rebuttal, the other person gets one more response, the OP gets the last post. That's 5, that's the end of it. Any further posts continuing the argument will be deleted. You have had your limit plus some. So this topic is closed
    If you want to.post something else, start another thread, contribute somewhere else on the site,go right ahead. But you're done here
     
  8. Dunerunner

    Dunerunner Brewery Monkey Moderator

    You do understand the the environmental impact of your EV surpasses any impact of a conventional fueled vehicle. Mining for the raw materials impact, energy required to produce the batteries, lifetime of the Ev before replacement, environmental impact of the lithium battery pack, the fact that the electricity you utilize to charge your vehicles is produced by natural gas and coal fired power plants.

    There is time to innovate newer technologies and the advent of EV’s is a step but not the fix. Oil and innovative technological advances will fuel (sic) the future and for now, both are necessary for that to happen. The US has, as estimated, 250 years of oil just in ANWAR. My hope is that our offspring are more interested in finding solutions than fighting about how we are going to get there.
     
  9. BTPost

    BTPost Stumpy Old Fart,Deadman Walking, Snow Monkey Moderator

    This Tread is now LOCKED For 7 Days… Period…
     
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  10. Minuteman

    Minuteman Chaplain Moderator Founding Member

    When you hear bidumb regurgitating that same old liberal shiite about the "massive" profits these evil oil companies make, stop a minute and look at some facts.
    The oil industry reinvests more of thier profits into future production and development than any other industry. By far. The only one that comes close is the pharmaceutical industry.
    With oil and gas it is a finite resource. Fields diminish over time. Gas fields much quicker than oil. Production falls off and you have to continually develope new wells and new production to replace the losses. It is a massive investment in expenditures to insure a net profit in the future.

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