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Wizzo · 03-22-2011, 03:49 PM

50 US oil wells in Brazil's waters!

Bill8 · 03-22-2011, 04:10 PM

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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.

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

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.

Bill8 · 03-22-2011, 04:32 PM

ahhh, presumably you mean 5 miles total, not 5 miiles of water, and yes you are right. The deepest oil well ever drilled was under two miles of water and 7 miles of rock and salt, if I recall correctly.

I'm just repeating what all the articles devoted to the brazilian discovery were saying, multiple times, when the discovery first made the news. The drilling job will be one of the most complex ever attempted, in seas that are far more dangerous than the gulf.

But, who knows, maybe it will be an easy drill job, and obama is just grandstanding. Maybe we'll suddenly see tankers of brazilian oil on the market, and the price of oil will go back to $30 a barrel.

These aren't really supergiant fields tho - 6 to 8 billion barrels in one, maybe more in the other, possibly as much as 30 billion barrels in sites believed to be there but not yet test drilled.

Wizzo · 03-22-2011, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Bill8

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.

I think he meant 5 miles total of water+rock which is close...

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/articl...epest-oil-well

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Bill8 Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 1,901	ahhh, presumably you mean 5 miles total, not 5 miiles of water, and yes you are right. The deepest oil well ever drilled was under two miles of water and 7 miles of rock and salt, if I recall correctly. I'm just repeating what all the articles devoted to the brazilian discovery were saying, multiple times, when the discovery first made the news. The drilling job will be one of the most complex ever attempted, in seas that are far more dangerous than the gulf. But, who knows, maybe it will be an easy drill job, and obama is just grandstanding. Maybe we'll suddenly see tankers of brazilian oil on the market, and the price of oil will go back to $30 a barrel. These aren't really supergiant fields tho - 6 to 8 billion barrels in one, maybe more in the other, possibly as much as 30 billion barrels in sites believed to be there but not yet test drilled.