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Originally Posted by dyna mo
eh? oil co's are drilling much deeper than that already. 5 miles of water + the rock.
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really? care to give me a source?
it's true that I dont keep the depth of the brazilian discovery uppermost in my mind, I thought it was 2 miles of water, then under very deep hard rock - one of the deepest discoveries ever made, and the largest deep discovery ever made. But, since it's not all that important a discovery, being so challenging to drill, I could have misremembered the facts.
let me check - ahhh, it's less than two miles of water.
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The "ultra-deep" Tupi field was found under 7,060 feet of water, another 10,000 feet of sand and rocks and a further 6,600 feet of salt ? a total of 4.48 miles below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.
Read more: Brazil reports massive oil discovery http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=44545#ixzz1HNAcyxmq
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I'd love to hear about a well drilled in 5 miles of ocean - there are only a few places that deep, all are subduction zones, it would be amazing to learn that oil deposits have been found in subduction zones.