[oil4u]

Ok ...so to fill one of these things up at the pump would be about $4500.00 CDN? my next question is ...how long would that last in a typical working environment?

[Kooka]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fossilnut2', ' ')I blame the Beverly Hillbillies. "Uncle Jed 'shooting at some food and up from the ground came a bubbling crude".

Folks think he somehow punctured a membrane or liner and then it's just a matter of getting out the buckets and scooping out the oil

[Antimatter]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Peak_Modernity', 'I')t's electric drive and uses some kind of regenerative braking, but still must idle while being loaded. I have no idea how this is profitable, because you still need a loader (which also has the same size engine). You're burning tons a fuel before ever processing the tar/sands.

[EnergySpin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fossilnut2', 'I') hum and haw and go looking for my wife for help.

[fossilnut2]

Kooka, oil is in the rock itself. Pressure forces the oil out of the rock. That's more or less it in a nutshell.

A whole bunch of variable lead to how much pressure is needed to extract the oil...from the viscosity of the oil to the depth to the temperature to the type of porosity..makeup of the rock, etc.

The great advantage of the oil in the big fields of the Middle East is it is easy to pump out. There's LOTS of oil and it's easy to access. Oil saturated rock are sometimes near surface. (thus your Persian lamps). Most of the time oil must be drilled for 'through' non-oil bearing formations (sediment layers deposited in various geologic eras).

The nature of oil resevoirs is also why it's so difficult to judge reserves. There's not some giant dipstick that can be stuck into a hole to measure the height of the liquid. The oil is distributed in the rock and rock layers, etc. have 'iffy' borders. If a field is 'x' miles' wide and fossil fuels start at 3000 feet depths...what's happening at 6000 feet? If nothing, then if you go through another 1000 feet will there be another deposit? What about 20 miles to the East? To the West? Most folks understand the issue when they dig a water well....especially a drilled well. One hole will find water...20 feet over dry and 20 feet over again more water.

Many oilfields aren't closed because there isn't lots more oil to be pumped. They are closed because of the cost of capital needed to find the oil. As oil prices rise then finding more in closed or half-worked fields (especially in Texas/Oklahoma) becomes viable.

[SilentE]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fossilnut2', 'K')ooka, oil is in the rock itself. Pressure forces the oil out of the rock. That's more or less it in a nutshell.

A whole bunch of variable lead to how much pressure is needed to extract the oil...from the viscosity of the oil to the depth to the temperature to the type of porosity..makeup of the rock, etc.

[bobcousins]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kooka', ' ')or surface holes in rocks generally filled with water. Since oil is lighter than water, it floats upward and sometimes seeps up through Earth's surface. But nonporous rock layers also trap rising oil, creating an underground oil reservoir.

[Kooka]

Thanks fossilnut2 and SilentE

[fossilnut2]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SilentE', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fossilnut2', 'K')ooka, oil is in the rock itself. Pressure forces the oil out of the rock. That's more or less it in a nutshell.

A whole bunch of variable lead to how much pressure is needed to extract the oil...from the viscosity of the oil to the depth to the temperature to the type of porosity..makeup of the rock, etc.