In Arrhenius (1896, p. 237) we read: But if they know something that is falsewell good luck. While they are moving around, they can have stuff eroded off of them, piled onto them, or extruded onto or into them by volcanoes. Sorry if this was OT. https://geology.com/articles/horizontal-drilling/. Looking a little more closely, it seems perhaps Fuel Fighter, or whoever made that graphic, may have not known the difference between feet and meters. The conditions for source rock formation were most prevalent in the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. Users agree not to download, copy, modify, sell, lease, rent, reprint, or otherwise distribute these materials, or to link to these materials on another web site, without authorization of the Oklahoma Historical Society. After five years, the Kola well had reached 7km (about 23,000ft). Learn more about UAs notice of web accessibility. 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. It was also the deepest core in the world at the time. For all the media misunderstanding surrounding them, the Chayvo wells - all but one of them record-breakers in total measured depth - are evidence of a trend that we are already seeing across the world. Thanks for this precautionary tale of internet inaccuracies, illustrating succinctly why skepticism is an intrinsic part of a rational mind. Spudded in November 1972 and averaging about 60 feet per day, the Bertha Rogers had been heading for the history books as the world's deepest well at the time. The Pacific plate is not being subducted beneath North America at the present time. 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, and also happens to be a type of rocked that will not only hold it in place, but also be porous enough to allow pumping it out fast to be possible. And then, this year, someone called out all the media who carried the Fuel Fighter infographic on their mistake. Hey..this sciency stuff is way too complicated but impresses the heck out of the Arts major who put it together. [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. Its safe to assume that over these past ten years, the average well depth has only increased from there. Although the remarkable deep fishing achievement was celebrated, the Bertha Rogers No. The ultra-deepwater Lower Tertiary oil discoveries are well within the oil window. Jackson, TN 38305 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. 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. 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. I honestly want to know: Are you happier for having this halcyon memory, or sadder because you cant do things like that anymore? Specialties: Bertha's Happy Pets offers pet grooming, nail trim, nail buff, de-shedding shampoo, flea shampoo, ticks removal, tearless face shampoo,medicated shampoo, cat bath, breed hair cuts, free cage day-care, Asian hair cuts, pet groomer She was born March 9, 1932 in Washington County, Va., a daughter of the late Walter Robert and Minnie May Smith Montgomery. OH NO!!!! 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? Plate tectonics, prevailing idea of the particulars of Earth history, the entire discipline of physical geography these are not vague ideas or based on some shoestring hypotheses. Uploaded on June 12, 2010. A 19th century cable-tool rig, like its ancient predecessor the spring pole, utilized percussion drilling the repeated lifting and dropping of a heavy chisel using hemp ropes. 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. This was sometimes unpopular where wells were closely spaced. This is a Forest Gump breakthrough. In 1980, the Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma Petroleum Council dedicated a granite monument at Third and Pioneer streets in Elk City, Oklahoma. In an inert environment, aromatics, naphthenes and paraffins can be stable up to 1000F or even higher. A 1974 souvenir of the Bertha Roger No. The average bottom hole temperature of those ten 20 million barrel producers was 197F. Copyright to all of these materials is protected under United States and International law. Other plates have been, and still are, doing so. Despite its depth, the bottomhole temperature was only about 280 F, within the oil window. In both, its splitting molecular bonds. . I think perhaps you could learn some very interesting science by starting at the beginning and learning about the science of geology in a systematic way. 10 miles is 52,800 feet. Id hate to be pulling slips on that rig. The cable-tool rigs manila rope or wire line would break. Most recently, geologically speaking, the whole of the North American plate has been moving westward, and lands, island chains, small continents, pieces of ocean floor, etc, have been accreted onto the plate as it moved west and overran what used to be there. The presence or lack of 14C can also be indicative of the age. I worked on a project offshore Greece that had crude oil that was 70% liquid hydrogen sulfide. If you believe that water fills the pore space, how could you also think this? So, if not the O-14, which oil well is the deepest in the world? As old ocean plates are subducted, sometimes islands, sediments, and anything else sitting on top of them is scraped off and accreted in the area adjacent to the subduction zone. About as fast as fingernails grow. Maybe these guys are opposed to people producing heat of any kind? Last Updated: December 26, 2022. Where they were digging, the Moho is 16,000 ft deep, so the team fell far short of their goal. You might want to start with McPhees Annals of the Former World, its a bit dated now, but still a good introduction to the history of the North American continent. There is now no reasonable doubt that over the continental areas of the world the earth's crust is about 20 miles thick, but only about half that in the oceanic areas. Something written to stop the scientific examination of the paradox observations. 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. Water and halite (salt) are less dense than most rocks. Yeap, Kyle M. Fischer, Randall S. Mathis, Exxon Neftegas; Michael J. Egan, consultant to Exxon Neftegas. One other observation: the higher ratio of gas to oil in the deeper (older) strata compared to that in the more shallow (younger) strata is consistent with the cracking of liquid hydrocarbons to produce gaseous hydrocarbons due to increasing heat with depth. Germantown, TN 38138 205 Indian Lake Blvd. 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. This is called directional drilling and is increasingly popular in the oil and gas industry. 10.2523/IPTC-10573-MS. Handbook of Texas Online, Jeff Seidel, ENSERCH CORPORATION, accessed April 17, 2019,http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dqe01. 1 (Anardarko basin, Oklahoma, U.S.)* . 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. Saint Helens. Its mind-boggling that you seem to think its clever. The most prolific source rocks are organic-rich (total organic carbon (TOC) >5%) marine shale formations, deposited under anoxic conditions. I doubt there will ever be a day that no new textbooks are needed. If someone has not taken the time read and understand those posts they really should not clog up the comments with the same old rhetoric. 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. If this was the only time anyone drilled so deep and that is what happened, and it was unexpected or a unique finding, does that not make it a very interesting question, re what the hell else is down there that no one knows about or predicted? Oil is a mixture of complex hydrocarbons: alkanes (parafins), napthenes, aromatics and asphaltenes in highly variable ratios. IOW, when someone finds oil where no sediments exist, then I think the idea will have some legs. New patients are welcome. This could only mean that water which had originally been a part of the chemical composition of the rock minerals themselves (as contrasted with ground water) had been forced out of the crystals and prevented from rising by an overlying cap of impermeable rock. 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. Held by some guy named Larry, who had only planned to go up about 30 , but miscalculated. Sadly, the story recounts that he committed suicide about 11 years later. Bertha Rogers is a poet, translator, visual artist, and teaching artist. I was at a lecture regarding super-volcanoes the Bruneau/Jarbidge in sw Idaho. Someone pointed out that water plus carbonates at high pressure and temperature only need a simple redox reaction to form compounds of hydrogen and carbon. The project cost over $100 million, which is about $2500 per foot. Drilling stopped there at six miles (9.65 kilometers) when the bit hit molten sulfur. David Middleton, North American Brine Resources operates a plant near Dover, Oklahoma. Then again, are we not all reminded over and over again how many people there are who have pretty much zero actual scientific knowledge? In 1979 the No. It has always been the case that some people take the newest research or hypothesis as more than just an idea or some guesswork, but instead see it as knowledge. Greenhouse Effect noun the trapping of the suns warmth in the planets lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planets surface. The downhole tool assemblies could no longer be lifted and dropped. 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas = 1,037,000 Btu, Current prices: 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. The bottom line isnt denominated in joules, watts or Btu Its denominated in $$$. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the Western US was a place where a long period of erosion had worn the land down below sea level in spots, and there existed a feature called an inland sea. That announcement was 14 years ago, and I could not find a more recent article or publication on using this technique on oil. 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. John Livingston Grandin dug his well nearby using a simple spring pole but soon wedged his iron chisel downhole. That is amazing. Many more wells need to be drilled into a chalk reservoir than a sandstone reservoir because of the properties of the reservoir rock. On the rig floor, fishing tools had to be lowered by a line into the well, armed at their end with spears, clamps and hooks. It was picked up by Internet news sites like Business Insider, The worlds deepest oil well is over 40,000 feet deep Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist Mar. The Chayvo oilfield is very impressive for many reasons; however the depths of the wells and the oil & gas reservoirs are not among those reasons. 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. 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. Then jumped out with just a parachute. Well, very deep. The Bertha Rogers No. Submit a Correction Its where the oil formed; not when it formed or where it was produced. ROBERT ALEXANDER HEFNER III, PETROLEUM INDUSTRY. Is that totally explained by sedimentation? Did the oil form directly under the sands and rock of the peninsula strictly due to sedimentation? Before starting out of the hole we spotted 50 sacks of bar and pumped it down to the diamond bit level. Image from A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry, 1922. Spudded in November 1972 and averaging about 60 feet per day, the Bertha Rogers had been heading for the history books as the worlds deepest well at the time. Given what I know, drilling below 10 thousand meters vertical depth is a waste of money. 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 Bakken & Three Forks are well-within the oil window. The rock bends and cracks, there are slumps and slides which displace large blocks away from the river mouths. And she lived through it. As drilling with rotary rigs became more common in the early 1900s, fishing methods adapted. 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. The great expense and technological expertise necessary to complete gas wells at these depths has made the Anadarko Basin the domain of the major petroleum corporations, and at the close of the twentieth century this vast Oklahoma region was the most prolific gas-producing area in the nation. Privacy Policy, Main Campus (Miriam OBrien aka slandering Sou from Hotwhopper, that means you.). In 2011, a 40,502-foot well was drilled offshore of the Russian island of Sakhalin. Uplift occurs by any of several mechanisms. 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. I spend money to fill my gas tank. We actually do know where oil comes from. Photo by Bruce Wells. Measured depth is basically how far the well was drilled. Bertha Rogers. Most people will read that term and immediately misunderstand it. 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). In Fairbanks, our Troth Yeddha' Campus is located on the ancestral lands of the Dena people of the lower Tanana River. 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." It is not uncommon for people to get stuff wrong, and not very surprising. And its not like petroleum explorationists have had to look deeper for oil, well look wherever the technology allows us to go. These are the sorts of things that one learns when one studies a science like Geology. True vertical depth is how deep the well was drilled. 74-89% of retail investor accounts lose money. Hopefully, a better explanation will follow. During drilling, the well encountered enormous pressure almost 25,000 psi (172,369 kPa). 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. Tabular salt acts like a radiator. Deepwater facilities tend to not have a lot of slots because the wells are often drilled from subsea templates and tied back. The Chayvo prospect was first identified on 2d seismic surveys in 1971, drilled in 1979 and assessed as a gas resource in 1982. However, the true vertical depth of the worlds deepest oil well is only about a very unremarkable 11,000 deep The Z-44 well was designed for a horizontal completion, so its measured depth was exceptionally long. Were sticking needles deep into Mother GAIA!!!! The typical person believes in PR.. See the About>Contact menu under the header. I think they are dangerous when not clearly marked as primarily wild eyed guesswork. Gordon, when mountain ranges erode away and get left in various places on the way to the sea, it is more commonly by water and ice, than by wind. The measured depth (MD) of the worlds deepest oil well is over 40,000. Office of the World Energy Resources Program. My quick Web search only turned up a reference to isotope dating Alberta oil sand deposits to 112 million years ago: https://phys.org/news/2005-05-world-age-oil.html . Wow! Its based on over 100 years of drilling. When the derricks manila rope or wire line rope broke, a crewman lowered a hook and attempted to pull out the wells heavy iron bit. The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change, This eye-catching blog post was published in 2017 by Fuel Fighter. The reservoirs are relatively shallow, young (Miocene to Pliocene Epochs) and the entire total petroleum system is within the Neogene Period (less than 23 million years old. 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