According to Wood Mackenzie in takes 71 days in the GOM to drill the average deep water well. That is about 6 wells per year if everything goes all right, which probably doesn’t happen that often. Since deep water wells come up dry more often than shallow water ones, maybe 4 of those wells might produce. With 25 ships available in ‘09, that is at best a 100 extra producing wells per year.
How do the presidential candidates propose to increase US production and reduce foreign oil dependency by drilling in deep water off the continental coast. It would require 100’s of ships (at several $100 million a shot) to have any kind of significant impact.
Sounds like more political malarkey to me!
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Re: Dearth of Ships Delays Drilling of Offshore Oil
by shortonoil » Sat 21 Jun 2008, 18:14:29
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Re: Dearth of Ships Delays Drilling of Offshore Oil
by TheDude » Sat 21 Jun 2008, 19:34:27
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('shortonoil', 'H')ow do the presidential candidates propose to increase US production and reduce foreign oil dependency by drilling in deep water off the continental coast. It would require 100’s of ships (at several $100 million a shot) to have any kind of significant impact.
Sounds like more political malarkey to me!
Sounds like more political malarkey to me!
Darn tootin'. Thanks for those estimates, I'm hitting the books about offshore now. Found a TOD piece: The Oil Drum | Deep Ocean Energy Resources -- A Critical Analysis. Interesting comment from the sadly recently deceased oilmanbob:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')'m in El Paso right now and can't look the apropriate references up, But J. Ben Carsey wrote an article for the AAPG Bulletin about deep structures in the Gulf of Mexico and Michael Halibouty published a map of the deep water salt domes in the pocket maps of his 2nd edition of Saltdomes of the Gulf Coast and Mexico. If someone could locate and post these we might have a little idea of the number of deepwater structures out there. Most, if not all, of the oil and gas fields in the Gulf are associated with salt domes.
I, personally, feel that there is a lot of oil and gas out there, plus in deeper depths of the salt domes in shallower water. But, it will only slow our decline in oil in the US. Natural gas is a different matter. The Gulf is gas-prone,as are wells more than 10,000 ft subsurface anywhere. But the deepwater stuff will have to be completed and operated by robotics and that isn't going to be cheap or easy.
I want to start aggregating all the relevant technical info on subjects like this that I can find, divorced from the inevitable sidetracks, like what is happening with our offshore thread - much of it done by Monte, the OP. Dieoff somewhere else, guys!
Good god, you'll love this bit of abiotic fume-sniffing short: linked to from our 2005 thread on Brazil's giant offshore oil discoveries, courtesy the thoroughly brain-addled Jeromi Corsi:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')oreover, Thunder Horse also defies "fossil-fuel" oil theorists who like to argue that oil comes from dead dinosaurs and decaying ancient forests. With the water depth of nearly 2 miles, Thunder Horse is truly an ultra-deep project. From the floor of the Gulf, BP has drilled down another 6 miles to hit oil. What evidence is there that any ancient dinosaur ever walked on land that is now 8 miles down?
Stick to the NWO or whatever you're about, Jeromi.
Thunder Horse in the Gulf
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Re: Dearth of Ships Delays Drilling of Offshore Oil
by Homesteader » Sat 21 Jun 2008, 23:01:01
This a good thread, thanks Dude.
Mea culpa for driving the Offshore Drilling thread into the abyss.
Mea culpa for driving the Offshore Drilling thread into the abyss.
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Re: Dearth of Ships Delays Drilling of Offshore Oil
by shortonoil » Sun 22 Jun 2008, 08:59:14
The Dude said:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Interesting comment from the sadly recently deceased oilmanbob
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Interesting comment from the sadly recently deceased oilmanbob
This is the first I have heard of his death. It is very sad, he was a sharp and competent contributor to our understanding of PO; always a gentleman and he will be missed!
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')ood god, you'll love this bit of abiotic fume-sniffing short:
Jupiter’s moon, Titan, is covered in an ocean of methane; a hydrocarbon. Where did it come from? As far as we know production of methane in any significant quantity is almost exclusively a biological process. So let's give the adiotic fumed brain proponents the benefit of the doubt. That is, hydrocarbons do not come from, as they say, deno bones.
The earth has 4.3 trillion barrels of oil reserves that have been produced, as they content continuously, for the last 60 million years. Some simple figures gives us a world wide adiotic production of 72,000 barrels per year.
WOW, we are saved!!
Dude, it is a simple as this: “There is no substitute for stupidity”.
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