Massive oil find in Gulf of Mexico.....36,000' below the Seabed!

BP has announced two massive oil discoveries 36,000' below the sea floor.  Its so deep that they must develop new materials and methods to extract it.  The pressures are at 20,000lbs/sq inch and the temps at 350 degrees. But they say it may be $2 trillion dollars of oil.

http://www.ctpost.com/business/energy/article/BP-pushes-technical-l...

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on December 9, 2013 at 4:17pm

That's amazing right there!

Permalink Reply by Nancy LeNau on December 9, 2013 at 4:42pm

WOW !!!!

Permalink Reply by Mike Fulper on December 10, 2013 at 6:50am

Just what we need..

British Petroleum drilling in USA ....

Our soverign sea rights extend out 200 miles  !!

I also notice a lot of BRITISH TV news commentators recently...on our news Channels...

Personally I have no love for the British....

I think this is just a STUNT... because they are losing oil $$ to Fracking...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wouldn't trust anything.. the British say...

Guess we are just a "colony" again  ??

Permalink Reply by Chris on December 10, 2013 at 2:08pm

BP is drilling wells in Ohio

0i7okn54zwbdoPermalink Reply by 0i7okn54zwbdo on March 13, 2014 at 3:08am

You're joking, right?  There's no way you can both be serious and capable of normal brain functions such as eating, breathing, et al.

Permalink Reply by Trapper on March 12, 2014 at 12:39pm

I guess 36,000 feet and 350 degrees and 20,000 psi doesn't "refine" oil to methane down yonder in the Gulf..................?

Permalink Reply by Jim Litwinowicz on March 12, 2014 at 2:49pm

Wow Trapper, you dug really deep to dig this one back up.

I wondered the same thing.  About a year ago I was Houston talking to an old friend that is a retired petro eng from Shell Oil. I asked him how they get oil from 20,000' when organics here that are below 8-10,000' are dry gas and deeper than 12,000' are called over cooked. He said that the shale rock here in Pa is very old 250-300 million years old.  The gulf where they are drilling is a mere 50 million yrs old.  This 'young' rock has had less time to cook so it is still good.

He went on to say that the Canadian tars sands, and some experimental wells in the US Rockies,  work by injecting steam into tar sands and heating it up speeding up the curing process.

Permalink Reply by Trapper on March 12, 2014 at 3:10pm
Thanks for posting that story Jim. What stuck in my mind was the extreme depth and pressure.
Would sure be nice to own a few acres of that real estate!
Permalink Reply by Walter E Iffland Jr on March 12, 2014 at 10:46pm
Will this oil be priced by OPEC?
Permalink Reply by paleface on March 13, 2014 at 1:41am
0i7okn54zwbdoPermalink Reply by 0i7okn54zwbdo on March 13, 2014 at 3:08am

Why would it be priced by OPEC?

Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on March 13, 2014 at 4:43am

At 20,000 PSI it gets very interesting as those pressures are very dangerous! Every thing in the game plan gets very expensive and the safety requirements wow!

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