I've heard people saying that dry oil wells are capped, but people sometimes go back to them at a later time and they're replenished. Maybe oil is a naturally occurring product of the earth.
All that is needed for oil is carbon and hydrogen. Most crude oil also has some other contaminants like sulfur which must be removed in the refining process. Fossils contain all of those elements. I'm not sure where you got this information, but either someone misinformed you or you have oversimplified what they were trying to say.
Why are people Downvoting you with no response? This is true. Oil and all of its derivatives are just that, hydrocarbons. I’d love the source of the “chemists” that have shown this firmly established chemistry is false.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but I think you have understood the statement backwards.
It's not that 'all that is needed is carbon and hydrogen', it's that decaying plant and animal matter contain other elements that are not found in oil.
As a (hypothetical) example, if a certain percentage of decaying animal matter is calcium from bones, why don't we see that same percentage of calcium in the oil? (Or at least, why is there not enough calcium to account for the bones, etc.)
This is answered if you’d like, by the fact that oil
IS in fact pretty unique to where it’s coming from due to the variables in what creates it and the reservoir itself. Oil refineries themselves aren’t all uniform, they are unique to their feedstock, even if the principles are the same. Sour oil for instance, is crude oil with very high levels of sulfur, and a refinery that refines a more standard crude would face catastrophic difficulties in refining it.
Either way, the hydrocarbon is the only bit that matters, the other trace elements don’t occur in large quantities, and part of the refining process itself implies things like calcium are “processed” out and left for the “bottom of the barrel” which is fuel that giant ships run, and it’s most certainly got all sorts of random components in its general makeup.
When ANYONE says that OIL is a fossil fuel...ask them the question:
IF oil is a fossil fuel then how come the dinosaurs that roamed the earth and find the bones that are made from Calcium, how in God's green earth did those calcified bones become a fossil fuel??????
Being that I am from Texas, oil wells quit producing are capped, during the duration of being capped they are checked once-in-awhile to see if there is anything in the well...GUESS WHAT???? THERE IS...it is freaking OIL...God made this earth to be self regenerative and has done so since the 1920's and before that...
These ECO freaks can go and blow that smoke they are selling down a dirty well and see what happens......😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
I'm from Texas too and you are 100% correct. When I was a kid, we bought some property that had a capped well on it but we didn't get the mineral rights with the land. Several years later we had to let the original owners who still owned the mineral rights install a pump jack because the well had come back to life so to speak. We didn't make anything off of the well but we did get to charge them for the road access and road repair costs because we put the road in.
Correct. I'm in the energy business and we get the monthly Oil & Gas magazines.
15+ years ago I remember reading in one of those mags where a couple old capped wells were checked. I only saw it in the mag but one would "think" that a discovery like that would be on the nightly news. We know why it wasn't.
The media would have to spin and say that more dinosaurs had recently perished and fell into the well to change into oil.
The oil companies do this and get a lot of crap from the shareholders when they do specifically because they believe the myth that oil is finite and comes from decayed plant and animal life. There is no such thing as peak oil.
There is probably a peak amount we can take at one time before all accessible fields drain before they can fill back up. There must be some balance point of extraction versus how quick the earth refills.
Fracking has been made into a taboo and evil word.
However, the process is fairly simple.
When an oil well goes dry, the oil companies make a slurry of liquids and highly spherical silica sand, 95% SiO2. This purity keeps it from breaking down when mixed with gases and oil.
They then send this slurry down the well and blast it into the well. The explosion creates new crevices in the rock formations and often revitalizes an expired well. Rather than drill more wells, the companies can reactivate old wells and make them produce again.
The natural gas and oil has been produced over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and so has the sand that is used to frack. Many of the high grade pure white silica sands are found in the midwest where 200 to 300 million years ago there were oceans with waves that rolled the silica into the spherical shape.
As we know, an egg shape can withstand great pressure, so too, can spherical sand. The importance of the spherical sand is the ability to hold the newly fracture rock crevices open so oil and gas can leak through. The shape is strong but also provides the gaps necessary for oil and gas to pass through them.
I am certainly against any efforts that ruin clean drinking water or create other environmental hazards. Surface strip mining for lithium and rare earth materials is something to watch closely as well. (which by the way, China owns the vast majority of rare earth mines in the world, including US mines)
It's my understanding that fracking takes place 1 to 2 miles below the surface, well beyond a typical water well for drinking.
Not disagreeing with you and I would feel the exact same way if my water was tainted by contaminants.
Wells that are fracked are existing wells that have already run dry and are reactivated by the process.
See my reply above...that is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT...once the fissures are broken, the slime and oil mix can cock up a real nice water well...that is why it is USED ONLY in certain circumstances...
This is one of the concerns I've had. I believe there can be good applications of fracking but I hear a lot of negative side effects from the practice being done in close proximity to the fracking zones. I'm guessing it needs to be done far enough away from populated areas, but I'm also guessing that the contamination can spread quite far. Not sure what the solution would be since I'm not an expert on the topic.
I'm pro-gas but admittedly have fallen victim to some of the fracking propaganda with water table fouling and strange emissions coming out of the faucets of residents living within nearby fracking zones. What is the truth of this? I want to be pro-fracking because it's another energy solution, but need some of my concerns alleviated.
There probably needs to be some limit on depth (or minimum depth) of fracking to prevent water tables from being fouled. Or possibly distance to populated areas, or both. The oil companies are going to swear it is fine and doesn't affect water but there is too much evidence out there that it does.
I was conducting a safety and environmental audit on an international drilling company headquartered in Houston, TX. While interviewing a drilling engineer and geologist I asked them that very same question. They replied that yes that a previously dry oil reservoir, after a period of time, will fill back up with oil. I also have a friend who is a petroleum chemist who said the same thing. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Company wanted to push the idea of scarcity.
I've heard people saying that dry oil wells are capped, but people sometimes go back to them at a later time and they're replenished. Maybe oil is a naturally occurring product of the earth.
Chemists have shown that the components of oil could not come from decayed plants and animals. There are many elements missing.
All that is needed for oil is carbon and hydrogen. Most crude oil also has some other contaminants like sulfur which must be removed in the refining process. Fossils contain all of those elements. I'm not sure where you got this information, but either someone misinformed you or you have oversimplified what they were trying to say.
Why are people Downvoting you with no response? This is true. Oil and all of its derivatives are just that, hydrocarbons. I’d love the source of the “chemists” that have shown this firmly established chemistry is false.
I learned this long ago, but it happens to be in this video as well.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but I think you have understood the statement backwards.
It's not that 'all that is needed is carbon and hydrogen', it's that decaying plant and animal matter contain other elements that are not found in oil.
As a (hypothetical) example, if a certain percentage of decaying animal matter is calcium from bones, why don't we see that same percentage of calcium in the oil? (Or at least, why is there not enough calcium to account for the bones, etc.)
This is answered if you’d like, by the fact that oil IS in fact pretty unique to where it’s coming from due to the variables in what creates it and the reservoir itself. Oil refineries themselves aren’t all uniform, they are unique to their feedstock, even if the principles are the same. Sour oil for instance, is crude oil with very high levels of sulfur, and a refinery that refines a more standard crude would face catastrophic difficulties in refining it. Either way, the hydrocarbon is the only bit that matters, the other trace elements don’t occur in large quantities, and part of the refining process itself implies things like calcium are “processed” out and left for the “bottom of the barrel” which is fuel that giant ships run, and it’s most certainly got all sorts of random components in its general makeup.
When ANYONE says that OIL is a fossil fuel...ask them the question:
IF oil is a fossil fuel then how come the dinosaurs that roamed the earth and find the bones that are made from Calcium, how in God's green earth did those calcified bones become a fossil fuel??????
Being that I am from Texas, oil wells quit producing are capped, during the duration of being capped they are checked once-in-awhile to see if there is anything in the well...GUESS WHAT???? THERE IS...it is freaking OIL...God made this earth to be self regenerative and has done so since the 1920's and before that...
These ECO freaks can go and blow that smoke they are selling down a dirty well and see what happens......😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
I'm from Texas too and you are 100% correct. When I was a kid, we bought some property that had a capped well on it but we didn't get the mineral rights with the land. Several years later we had to let the original owners who still owned the mineral rights install a pump jack because the well had come back to life so to speak. We didn't make anything off of the well but we did get to charge them for the road access and road repair costs because we put the road in.
Good on Ya'!!!! Outstanding...People just didn't know back then that the mineral have to be CONVEYED when selling the land...OOOOPS...
The earth is like a CSTR, a constantly stirred tank reactor. Whatever the reactants are they keep being stirred and oil is the result.
We're lied to about pretty much everyrhing. But at least people are stsrting to see it. Well, maybe 25% of us.
Correct. I'm in the energy business and we get the monthly Oil & Gas magazines.
15+ years ago I remember reading in one of those mags where a couple old capped wells were checked. I only saw it in the mag but one would "think" that a discovery like that would be on the nightly news. We know why it wasn't.
The media would have to spin and say that more dinosaurs had recently perished and fell into the well to change into oil.
Buying up "spent" oil fields could be a decent long term investment
The oil companies do this and get a lot of crap from the shareholders when they do specifically because they believe the myth that oil is finite and comes from decayed plant and animal life. There is no such thing as peak oil.
There is probably a peak amount we can take at one time before all accessible fields drain before they can fill back up. There must be some balance point of extraction versus how quick the earth refills.
Correct, but that changes with the technology too. A lot of wells that were once deemed empty can now be productive with newer technology.
so a lot of people know the "fossil fuel" myth is BS, but it is perpetuated because, why?
Just one more official story from the government that is simply a lie.
Fracking has been made into a taboo and evil word.
However, the process is fairly simple.
When an oil well goes dry, the oil companies make a slurry of liquids and highly spherical silica sand, 95% SiO2. This purity keeps it from breaking down when mixed with gases and oil.
They then send this slurry down the well and blast it into the well. The explosion creates new crevices in the rock formations and often revitalizes an expired well. Rather than drill more wells, the companies can reactivate old wells and make them produce again.
The natural gas and oil has been produced over the course of hundreds of millions of years, and so has the sand that is used to frack. Many of the high grade pure white silica sands are found in the midwest where 200 to 300 million years ago there were oceans with waves that rolled the silica into the spherical shape.
As we know, an egg shape can withstand great pressure, so too, can spherical sand. The importance of the spherical sand is the ability to hold the newly fracture rock crevices open so oil and gas can leak through. The shape is strong but also provides the gaps necessary for oil and gas to pass through them.
I am certainly against any efforts that ruin clean drinking water or create other environmental hazards. Surface strip mining for lithium and rare earth materials is something to watch closely as well. (which by the way, China owns the vast majority of rare earth mines in the world, including US mines)
It's my understanding that fracking takes place 1 to 2 miles below the surface, well beyond a typical water well for drinking.
Not disagreeing with you and I would feel the exact same way if my water was tainted by contaminants.
Wells that are fracked are existing wells that have already run dry and are reactivated by the process.
See my reply above...that is ABSOLUTELY CORRECT...once the fissures are broken, the slime and oil mix can cock up a real nice water well...that is why it is USED ONLY in certain circumstances...
This is one of the concerns I've had. I believe there can be good applications of fracking but I hear a lot of negative side effects from the practice being done in close proximity to the fracking zones. I'm guessing it needs to be done far enough away from populated areas, but I'm also guessing that the contamination can spread quite far. Not sure what the solution would be since I'm not an expert on the topic.
I'm pro-gas but admittedly have fallen victim to some of the fracking propaganda with water table fouling and strange emissions coming out of the faucets of residents living within nearby fracking zones. What is the truth of this? I want to be pro-fracking because it's another energy solution, but need some of my concerns alleviated.
There probably needs to be some limit on depth (or minimum depth) of fracking to prevent water tables from being fouled. Or possibly distance to populated areas, or both. The oil companies are going to swear it is fine and doesn't affect water but there is too much evidence out there that it does.
I was conducting a safety and environmental audit on an international drilling company headquartered in Houston, TX. While interviewing a drilling engineer and geologist I asked them that very same question. They replied that yes that a previously dry oil reservoir, after a period of time, will fill back up with oil. I also have a friend who is a petroleum chemist who said the same thing. Rockefeller and his Standard Oil Company wanted to push the idea of scarcity.
It was all the rage at the time, like diamonds and DeBeers.