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00:10 | two. I just didn't have time read it. Last week. I |
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00:15 | to interview um about 15 students that trying to get here for different |
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00:28 | And at the same time, I trying to catch up with my emails |
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00:30 | a month ago. It's just It's, yeah, just need to |
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00:48 | this now. OK. There we . So again, we're uh now |
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00:58 | , we're looking at the exploitation, , exploitation, not frontier. And |
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01:04 | course, in every, every bit the uh value chain we're always worried |
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01:10 | , didn't wanna do that these few uh that we have and we're gonna |
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01:16 | , we're gonna bring in a couple other things. Uh play, play |
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01:19 | way, a lead and a prospect which kind of help us focus on |
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01:27 | and pieces of these things. And from a larger scale, again, |
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01:33 | normally, we're normally looking at certain that are actually related to formations in |
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01:39 | ground, um not arches or something the surface, but you know, |
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01:45 | formations. If you know what a is, has, has everybody in |
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01:50 | . Taken stray. No. As undergrads and sea. Ok. |
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02:04 | , um, yeah, I find , well, and we talked about |
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02:08 | photography a little bit. Ok. , anyway, uh, we're gonna |
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02:16 | , uh, kind of focusing in some of these things from the aspect |
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02:20 | exploration, which is sort of starts with coming up and I, with |
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02:24 | idea to a drill and, and it ends with exploitation where we've |
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02:29 | found something and we're starting to drill around to find more of those |
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02:34 | And uh and then the next step we focus farther in on one of |
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02:38 | prospects that we had a discovery. we, we get into this step |
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02:41 | called appraisal, which is the next . OK. So, um and |
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02:47 | of the important things that this aspect to make sure we have a seal |
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02:51 | you can have, you know, can, can look at seismic, |
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02:54 | can kind of see there might be structure, can see false, |
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02:58 | uh you know, uh beds uh of dipping up into a fault |
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03:04 | you know, there might be a there, uh or sometimes an assault |
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03:08 | things like that. And sometimes we actually see an clinal structures as, |
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03:12 | you, as you have seen in of the examples I've shown of uh |
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03:17 | 3D and two D seismic. Uh you can have that and, and |
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03:25 | , and I think this is where gets important. You know, you |
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03:27 | , you know, why do I a reservoir and a trap? |
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03:30 | you can have a trap. It not be, may not, something |
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03:34 | like a trap but there's not a for a rock accident. You can |
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03:39 | something that looks like a crap, the seal is not very good as |
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03:43 | turns out the seals for the most , uh, in, in |
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03:50 | in a lot of conventional uh And, and also it's important, |
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03:55 | which some people keep overlooking. Every I read something, it's like, |
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03:59 | my God, they missed this But uh you need to have a |
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04:03 | that's sitting on top of that, trap, whatever it is. Uh |
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04:07 | you're looking at a conventional thing, have this big resource play, it's |
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04:10 | shale, you're trying to get um out of it in some sense, |
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04:17 | self contained. But at the same , there could be an apple for |
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04:21 | ale for above and, and we make sure somehow we received because if |
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04:26 | go really close to that, you pull, pull water in and uh |
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04:31 | the, the formation that you're trying produce because because in all cases, |
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04:37 | I don't get into um uh relative , but I, I mention it |
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04:45 | and over again. Um It's kind a, a tricky thing because if |
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04:49 | actually doing experiments with it, you to inject things and that kind of |
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04:53 | . And, and in my you know, you're, you're trying |
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04:56 | come at a number by doing something doesn't happen in the real world. |
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05:01 | , uh, and, uh, , there are, uh, Mike |
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05:05 | over in petroleum engineering, uh, this huge, he got it from |
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05:09 | . When you left shell, it's huge compression chamber where you can, |
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05:12 | you can measure things sort of in with high temperatures, high pressures. |
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05:17 | , uh, somebody forgets to tighten something down very well, there's |
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05:20 | be bolts flying across the room and , through several buildings before it |
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05:26 | Um, I, I, I always frightened just to even walk in |
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05:29 | room when I, when you realize pressures that they're, they're operating inside |
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05:33 | these uh chambers and most of them , you know about this, we |
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05:36 | a rock physics lab, this got about this size to view Indian |
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05:42 | But his is, his chamber is than his test. So he's |
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05:46 | he's got nuts to go hold the together. It's like some of the |
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05:52 | that hold up, uh, street lights and stuff. The real |
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05:56 | ones that you see on I Yeah. And it's, you |
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06:01 | you don't have to be an engineer , to kind of guess that, |
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06:05 | know, a leaky seal could be real problem uh, at the surface |
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06:10 | the ground. It's a little bit , but it's still a tug and |
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06:13 | and if, and if, something, uh, is pushing with |
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06:17 | , with a little bit more pressure something else, um, uh, |
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06:23 | , uh, you know, it's win. It's, uh, it's |
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06:27 | about, it's all about balance, know, 10,000 P si is a |
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06:31 | of a containing pressure. But if 10,015, there might be, you |
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06:36 | , something might leak a little bit , uh, it's, it's sometimes |
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06:40 | to imagine. And, uh, are people again that do this theoretical |
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06:47 | , more or less that think, know, these seals don't leak |
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06:51 | you know, for them to they have to overcome capillary pressures. |
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06:54 | the pressures are so high that the pressure isn't the issue. The issue |
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07:00 | that difference between what's on, what's one side and what's on the |
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07:06 | And, um, and of if it wasn't for the types of |
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07:10 | , I'm gonna show you, we , we probably wouldn't have gas chimneys |
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07:13 | we have gas chimneys all over the because we have a lot of seals |
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07:17 | we could, ok, no matter good they are. And, |
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07:24 | this is something I remember when I working operationally, we kind of sensed |
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07:31 | like this was going on, but didn't, we didn't have the, |
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07:33 | , theory behind it. Some of comes from, um, a single |
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07:39 | and, uh, and Exxonmobil picked on it really quick and uh and |
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07:43 | thought it was good that they but some of the other oil companies |
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07:46 | slow to, to kind of get it, but it has a big |
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07:50 | , not only on a, on localized seal, but also how you |
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07:54 | uh see production uh going down Like if you have 15 pay |
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08:01 | why one might be performing better than other, even though uh they look |
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08:05 | the same system? Ok. Um , um and this, this is |
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08:13 | thing I always, this is always question on my test and it's probably |
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08:16 | be a question on the test Um Membrane seal is po uh but |
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08:23 | cannot migrate through the pores when when it's worth again. If it's |
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08:30 | working, it will, it will to the. In other words, |
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08:36 | there's enough of a pre pressure differential movie and we'll go into how that |
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08:41 | , a hydraulic seal uh for any to get through it and crash. |
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08:47 | , um which one of these types seals is related, do you think |
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08:53 | a high? And which one is related to a boat? Maybe? |
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08:58 | , I uh would be a delicious . And uh and something that's a |
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09:09 | seal is gonna be something that's in , which is more likely uh you |
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09:13 | , it could be in carbonate or it's all cemented up or is it |
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09:18 | built with cement, that kind of and the only way to get anything |
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09:22 | it is to fracture. And uh uh the word membrane, I, |
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09:28 | don't know why. But for some people get this backwards in the head |
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09:32 | some people take a of um a brain is something that sweet and |
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09:39 | but it's uh membrane is, is it's like a tissue on us. |
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09:45 | it's, we have membranes and all ourselves. But we, you |
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09:48 | we, it's, you know, like this and uh instead of, |
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09:54 | know, like the hand by And, um, and we, |
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10:00 | do all sorts of filtering of membranes stuff too and uh some things can |
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10:05 | through it some and uh and the between the relative permeability and the fluids |
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10:12 | are in the system relate to what's pass through first. And uh in |
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10:18 | cases, the relative permeability of uh gas in the gas form, its |
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10:24 | slip through faster than water, water slip through faster than, well. |
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10:29 | that's kind of the way it And so uh what I can get |
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10:33 | me, excuse me. Um, , you know, the right temperature |
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10:37 | pressure, it can get through these a lot easier than oil can. |
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10:42 | is almost um uh the surface tension oil and water, the um the |
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10:48 | is gonna tend to, to lose on that. If you have |
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10:51 | smaller and smaller pores, I hope makes sense to you. Yeah. |
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11:01 | . So traits of a good highly impermeable. That's wrong. It's |
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11:09 | wrong, permeable uh barriers, small size, usually fine grain sediments, |
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11:13 | ductility, thick Strat graphic unit and extensive. That's pretty much says it |
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11:19 | . So a nice good shale, maximum flooding surface, which we talked |
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11:23 | maximum flooding surfaces typically are organic rich they are also um often a lot |
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11:31 | delicious places that they get out in deep water. And uh because |
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11:37 | you know, they float almost it takes a long time to |
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11:40 | takes a long time to get out the wave of the wave interval at |
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11:44 | , at the ocean surface. And one set stop, sting them |
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11:49 | they start to settle out and, it can take a long time and |
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11:53 | sometimes they get ingested by things that just going along trying to find algae |
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11:59 | the water and uh they end up uh copper lights and that kind of |
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12:04 | or um uh the stuff you see the bottom of your aquarium after your |
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12:09 | have, have your tank hasn't been out in a while. So, |
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12:14 | but anyway, it, uh it's uh it's very, uh |
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12:17 | very plastic in nature as a delicious candy. And of course, |
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12:25 | clays are completely different. It means in, yes. Uh I, |
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12:33 | spell it. It's impermeable. I don't know where the, he |
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12:38 | from, I, I think it's like in which is also |
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12:42 | Yes. So it can be, , um, impervious would be |
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12:51 | But, so, um, impermeable , is really what I wanna, |
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12:58 | , I, you know, sometimes think two words at the same time |
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13:01 | try to spell them at once. I was talking about stocks and bonds |
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13:06 | , um, what was I I said, uh, bun and |
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13:11 | together and came up with Bond. , I was talking to somebody. |
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13:20 | you know, sometimes I have to uh people in the uh business school |
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13:24 | out how to count. It's, guys have probably had the same problem |
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13:29 | . Um That's what you really And um and so here is uh |
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13:34 | really a neat chart. Uh This in both uh versions of your |
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13:41 | but it came from uh uh most the stuff in this comes from um |
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13:47 | sales and uh s A les that's guy's last name. Sales. And |
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13:55 | here we have uh the uh water can see it coming down like |
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14:02 | And um I, I often think a gradient that's steeper as, as |
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14:07 | more, but it's, it's actually because this is this gradient is based |
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14:12 | density. So um as you see , the less dense petroleum and in |
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14:19 | case, they mean oil. Um the book, the book that we |
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14:25 | calls oil petroleum and natural gas is be uh gas is gonna be less |
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14:31 | uh oil with dissolved gas and it'll a little bit less than this |
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14:37 | But um the rate of change in direction is very, very small over |
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14:44 | considerable depth. And that's because it's dense. The water which is more |
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14:50 | has AAA greater gradient and it looks this. So here's the water |
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14:55 | uh here's depth to a certain uh . And at some point, uh |
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15:03 | uh if I have um say oil a, in a reservoir, this |
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15:08 | be the gradient of the petroleum through from whatever depth depth that has to |
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15:13 | . And this is the water So this would be the hydraulic pressure |
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15:17 | the system. And this is an pressure in the system. And that |
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15:24 | is because you've uh you've reduced the . So there is an upward force |
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15:31 | here that's greater than that. And and that differential is what pushes through |
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15:38 | uh membrane uh seals. And uh is the formula. I don't think |
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15:46 | ever asked people what the formula but it's, you know, it's |
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15:50 | nice simple one. Uh The buoyancy uh is just uh the water density |
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15:57 | the density of the petroleum times whatever height is. And uh and you |
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16:03 | see from this diagram if it's, know, just a small height, |
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16:10 | oil column is small, it's not much if the oil column is, |
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16:15 | greater, it's more so just thinking oil column height, what is that |
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16:22 | you that you find a nice Yeah, there's an oil water going |
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16:28 | happen. You have all water contact here. We have a column of |
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16:35 | in the sand. Uh If, the oil gets thicker and thicker and |
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16:41 | and thicker, what's going on at point where that person is? In |
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16:49 | words, if the reservoir is only , then the problem is only that |
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16:55 | . You have a relatively small uh of weights. But if you |
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17:01 | as you get higher and higher, , as it in this formula, |
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17:08 | are important mainly to understand what they , whatever this number is here, |
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17:14 | times hype. So the higher the column uh and to me, this |
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17:19 | really a profound thing about little um , why would, why might it |
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17:25 | um say I have a uh at time that looks like this and I |
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17:34 | a formation that kind of looks like . It's what if my oil water |
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17:47 | like if my oil water contact was here and now I'm here, what |
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17:54 | the force of buoyancy be on here to that? If I had here |
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17:59 | the way over there, would it greater or less than if I just |
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18:06 | you? Right? OK. So I'm going with this is that um |
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18:13 | we have our size. They coming with these, we're trying to make |
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18:19 | as sick as we can to make money. Sometimes we estimate an oil |
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18:24 | is surely mass. Ok. There's , uh, a lot of |
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18:31 | uh, that deal with this sort thing. Uh Steve, which teaches |
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18:36 | geology. He's retired now. uh, but he's spent his whole |
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18:41 | with me. But, uh, know, a geologist comes along or |
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18:47 | and for some reason, they think all our contact all the way down |
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18:51 | . But theoretically, you look at pressure that we know from this |
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18:56 | Um This seal can't support something any than that. So it keeps you |
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19:03 | having this very big, uh you , oh my God, look at |
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19:09 | but, you know, says the contact, you know, the reservoirs |
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19:14 | this, but it gets smaller and as you get back to reality. |
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19:18 | so in a, in an exploration perspective, it's really important |
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19:24 | to kind of know how optimistic you be about the volumes that you have |
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19:28 | on the structure and the strate and trap and uh and how that might |
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19:36 | . Right? OK. And so see, did we do? |
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19:49 | And we haven't gotten to the other you. But uh but anyway, |
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19:52 | this radius uh gets bigger, that it's a bigger, it's a bigger |
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19:57 | thing and uh less and less of contact is going on. So |
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20:03 | the poor throat is actually bigger. pore throats, the size of pore |
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20:07 | is really important. And, that's the main thing that this |
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20:10 | Here's a, here's a water, water, wet rock. For some |
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20:16 | , they have water, the arrow down in the oil. You |
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20:19 | people that, uh, publish books don't catch everything and the artists don't |
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20:24 | draw it right. But this it's a water wet grain, wet |
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20:30 | . So there's water in here. there's surface tension and as this gets |
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20:35 | and of course, is this uh gets, gets bigger, that bigger |
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20:41 | makes, you know, would make bigger and, and therefore the where |
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20:45 | touch is less. And this is , you know, you would think |
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20:48 | you had great big, great big in here, you have really |
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20:53 | But we talk about when there's enough to move the boulder with everything else |
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20:59 | that amount of energy is sort of and very, a very short term |
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21:06 | the side. So your OK, these things are uh painfully inner |
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21:17 | but it's a good thing. And here's a little bit about uh from |
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21:23 | , another book, uh you can this yourself. But again, um |
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21:28 | , it's looking at the angles of things and how um this is just |
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21:36 | the driving force and this thing as is right now is, is getting |
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21:40 | . But uh it has to overcome this force to get through in the |
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21:45 | surface tension that's going on in And uh and so there's, there's |
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21:53 | formula that relates to those two And um the hydraulic pressure um basically |
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22:06 | a really strong differential between um the and the confining pressure on the other |
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22:14 | of the sea. And so, some seals are very strong, you |
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22:19 | , like, you know, you to break through, you have |
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22:23 | and sometimes, you know, pushing way doesn't work, it does work |
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22:29 | if there's a flex instruction, um uh can create a lot of natural |
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22:37 | . And so, uh that's when get the fracture and flow outside of |
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22:42 | . So we, if we have one of these neat membrane seals, |
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22:47 | know, it's a good seal, we know the hydraulic uh seals once |
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22:53 | exceeded whatever fracture or strain has been on a unit once that's happened, |
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22:58 | know, the things totally fail. you can have, on the other |
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23:03 | , when we're looking at other that fraction might actually be the |
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23:08 | And there's a, there's a high shale seal level. So, uh |
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23:15 | know, unconventional, conventional is all same thing. It's just a matter |
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23:18 | where your focus is. OK. , um traps versus seals, you |
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23:32 | , if you have a trap, not gonna talk about the type of |
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23:34 | here, but this is a class seal. Class two seal, class |
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23:40 | seal. And uh when, when is thought of the assumption is there's |
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23:45 | uh hydrocarbon migrating to fill the structure the, of the seal does not |
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23:51 | . And that's what these examples And the, the models are just |
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23:55 | to show you how something can fill sp or how something can fill spill |
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24:00 | leave. I wish you guys would interested in this because I think it's |
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24:14 | exciting. I, I, unless you've already had a class at |
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24:21 | . But, um, but it's kind of, you know, |
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24:25 | one of these things and we, know, and we don't know. |
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24:29 | of course, again, there's, more mistakes in this book and, |
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24:34 | , I don't know if this was mistake because at least they labeled it |
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24:39 | ? Ok. This is, this gas, uh, the fact that |
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24:42 | have no color, you know. , you know, I, I |
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24:47 | of think that, that you're gonna something shaded, it would be oil |
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24:50 | nothing else because this methane, there some right there. Did you see |
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24:57 | ? It's, it's not colored in , you know, and then the |
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25:02 | one who did that? Yeah. . Somebody, right. Ok. |
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25:09 | , um, normally you don't see and especially that. But, |
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25:15 | but what this is showing you is one, what we call class |
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25:19 | class two and class two. um, this one, uh, |
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25:27 | , is filling with hydro and why it, why does it only |
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25:32 | why does it only have gas? do you mean, why does this |
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25:46 | only have gas in it? And don't have enough? And the? |
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25:58 | . Ok. So uh I know he said. Um, and this |
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26:03 | ok. So we have a a containable volume here. We have |
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26:09 | containable volume here and we have a volume here. Um, but he's |
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26:15 | a couple of things at one So I wanna be really clear about |
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26:18 | as I can here. We have uh down the, down the |
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26:27 | Ok. Uh You've got oil coming in here. Why is it |
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26:31 | Oil in there? Because this system oil and gas in it. If |
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26:36 | was just oil, you wouldn't have worry about this. It's uh oil |
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26:39 | gas in it. So when when the gas, whether you have |
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26:43 | in here or not to begin the gas will displace it and the |
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26:47 | and the oil will spill out when fills up to the spill point, |
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26:51 | start leaking out here. So, , one way to look at this |
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26:55 | , this has a surplus of seal . This one has um less seal |
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27:05 | and this one has even over the and part of it. And |
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27:09 | and I think it's really important to that H is small here. H |
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27:16 | bigger here and H gets bigger you know, the, the, |
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27:21 | you would have for your and, , and that's, you know, |
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27:27 | the seal was the same string, one would naturally lose, ok, |
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27:37 | because the column was higher and it still and then it, ok, |
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27:44 | get this tremendous gas, we get seats. But if it's been |
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27:49 | um, charged, they're still attracting there's lots of a carbon indicators to |
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27:56 | in the size of it and on surface, um they tell you where |
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28:01 | is and that is what type of is that again? It's a membrane |
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28:11 | . Absolutely. So the hydra was , that either would be complete seal |
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28:20 | it would be a record. it's either it's all or you have |
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28:27 | for plus seal capacity or it's even needs it all weeks up. And |
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28:42 | what else does this thing show this show you? They don't have uh |
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28:57 | uh right, we have, we very different contacts of these. So |
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29:06 | a completely different system. Um So we see uh what, what often |
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29:13 | as we might see something like this one interval, this went a little |
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29:18 | and that we were still or if just look the same interval and we |
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29:23 | a structure that was higher and OK. This is the original article |
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29:35 | sales 1997. And uh I remember to explain with people that were really |
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29:44 | geologists and geo this is something really , not gonna mention their names because |
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29:48 | you think I'm saying something bad about . But in 2018, 12 and |
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29:53 | I had this, I'm not sure understand it yet. I'm open your |
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30:00 | . She might be a little bit clever than, um, some of |
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30:04 | good professors. Uh, but, , this came out and then, |
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30:08 | , then, and uh Exxonmobil was of the first one to pick up |
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30:13 | it and use it a lot. Shell started looking at it. Shell |
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30:17 | looking at it in a completely different and I'll, I'll show you an |
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30:19 | of that, uh, later on this lecture. But this is the |
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30:23 | one, the oil start the game it didn't make sense. And, |
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30:29 | , and, and this, I this in here because it just makes |
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30:32 | picture easier to comprehend rather than what's your book. And they, |
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30:38 | they didn't fix it in the new . Go ahead. I still, |
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30:48 | , it's, um, well, this, what this means right here |
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30:53 | just one spill because he keeps And when the gas gets up at |
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30:59 | site, it probably comes out of , but it works through when it |
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31:03 | to the top and then it's so , it starts to the buoyancy pressure |
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31:09 | the oil is even high enough to it out. And it's, it's |
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31:13 | to notice this is leaking. Here this is leaking somewhere wherever that is |
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31:19 | . Ok. So, here you , you have excess, we'll call |
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31:24 | , he, and it just keeps and, and then no matter how |
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31:28 | , if the charge was more this connection too, uh, but |
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31:37 | , but it's, uh, you know, and it's sort of |
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31:40 | an equilibrium where you're getting in charge it's kind of standing right here. |
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31:45 | , I had a little bit of out of it at the time. |
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31:49 | not like you have a production well there. Sort of the, you |
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31:52 | , again, these are models and , you kind of have to, |
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31:55 | kind of have to understand this to what we see in the real |
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31:58 | uh, because it impacts everything we in the real world. Um. |
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32:07 | , so the, the class one , um, you have the |
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32:17 | the oil grading is down here. , oh yeah, here's, here's |
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32:25 | oil gradient, here's the gas radiant , um, this would be the |
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32:37 | possible gas column. Um, but leaking. This is sorry, this |
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32:43 | the oil spill point and it's leaking filling up with gas. Oh, |
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32:49 | oil. I'm sorry, I'm not be the, I, I hate |
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32:52 | do this but, you know, it would be, it would be |
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32:55 | over here but it doesn't have, , it doesn't have enough, |
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33:05 | the height of the structure. In words, the spill point. On |
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33:10 | structure is too high for it to the oil and the gas together. |
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33:16 | uh in other words, it's too in the column. And the other |
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33:20 | , you have a, a deeper point, this one, you have |
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33:24 | shallow skill point. Here's the oil , uh the deepest oil can |
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33:30 | And uh and here's the deepest that uh gas can get. But |
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33:36 | it's uh it's spilling because it's like . In other words, if we |
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33:41 | this, this diagram, if we it in the, uh it's kind |
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33:48 | like looking at where these are. this is, uh but we're in |
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33:52 | over here that's leaking. I'm getting confused. So I confused you |
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33:58 | But uh hm. So here we the gas gradient. Um, so |
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34:05 | able to hold in a certain amount gas, the seal screen that's |
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34:09 | It's not broken. Um But the radiating here, uh it, it |
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34:14 | build it here. It would leave it gets to there. Well, |
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34:18 | it has to get past that point that's the reserve seal spring is in |
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34:23 | particular reservoir. Do you? so let me explain that again. |
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34:30 | could have gas. If it was enough, you could have gas fill |
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34:34 | all the way to the year before starts to, but apparently it's not |
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34:41 | , um, filled fast and maybe time I won't even show that |
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34:46 | Um, here is uh showing um, skipping over that go to |
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34:51 | , um, which one was Yeah, that's the two which only |
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34:59 | gas. The, get the oil leaking out. And so in this |
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35:05 | , um, you have the spill all the way down here. Uh |
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35:11 | there's not enough column in there to to spill out. The other gradient |
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35:16 | here. The seal strength is there the gas gradient is here, which |
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35:22 | steeper and it's leaking out there as . And so you're losing, you're |
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35:28 | oil and gas at the same And that's what a class three, |
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35:31 | class one is um just spill. everything's spilling on the sides and you're |
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35:39 | to keep within the spill point, gas, there's not enough room up |
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35:44 | . Uh because you have this preserve of the gas um which make the |
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35:51 | , build that uh work. But the oil comes in there, you |
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35:56 | push it out of the way. it goes off the sides. |
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36:05 | And then, so I showed you two extremes and then here is the |
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36:09 | sort of in the middle um where just have gas. Uh This is |
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36:16 | maximum possible oil dominated column uh that have on here. Here's the oil |
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36:23 | . And the reason it's down here because if I drew a line like |
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36:28 | , presumably it would intersect uh with , with this right about here. |
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36:35 | um same with this thing here is maximum possible gas, but you have |
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36:41 | oil and gas leaking out the oil is, is limited uh by that |
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36:47 | and then the gas is up here the top. So sort of holding |
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36:52 | port and this can only get higher the gas goes out, if it's |
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36:56 | a pressure regime where the gas is out of solution there. Uh The |
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37:00 | will have a more dominant uh uh in, in how high its column |
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37:07 | . Ok. Uh So seal strength be highly variable because of seal |
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37:12 | And, and what that means is , um uh if all the grades |
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37:17 | exactly the same size and the permeability identical everywhere, it would be uh |
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37:23 | much consistent but it isn't always And uh so that's, that's another |
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37:29 | to add to that this kind of that you have. And uh when |
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37:37 | do test questions, I might, I might just show you something like |
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37:45 | with nothing on it and uh not you what's leaking. But ask |
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37:50 | um, if you see if you the, and you see the gas |
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37:57 | and you see the oil gradient, I know I'd ask you to, |
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38:04 | tell me whether or not it still ok, you know what's leaking out |
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38:11 | that particular system, not gonna lie I'm trying to follow, but it |
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38:20 | , it is very difficult for me OK here, like for this |
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38:25 | it's, it's kind of because there's things going on and I started explaining |
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38:29 | of them wrong too. That didn't . But uh here's the water |
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38:36 | OK. And here's the gas gradient they're not even showing you the oil |
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38:44 | on here because there's no oil in . And this is, this is |
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38:48 | maximum gas gradient. Why is that maximum, can you, can you |
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38:56 | of look at that and see why that me this is the maximum |
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39:02 | gas column. Why is that? . OK. Here's the gas |
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39:17 | You know when I start talking about , I was thinking oil and gas |
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39:20 | it's really just gas. So this , here's the, so I paid |
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39:27 | point right there. Anything higher than than this, it's gonna leave. |
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39:34 | right there because of the column, does leak. If uh if |
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39:41 | if I make the column deeper, it moves over. Like this other |
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39:49 | , this line right here, if I fill it deeper, the |
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39:56 | be over a year and I've, lost my OK, forget everything on |
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40:06 | . Say we fill it up in and this is the gas gradient right |
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40:11 | . You can see that it would it. And that's why it's the |
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40:17 | strength is what has to be It can't do it with the, |
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40:20 | the po that's pushing up. If move this, if I make this |
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40:26 | cooper, then this line comes down like this. It comes down like |
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40:38 | . If I just had oil, the oil gradient is gonna be more |
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40:45 | this. It's not like this and not like that, but it's something |
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40:52 | this. And so you would still , you know, driver based on |
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41:00 | way this is drawn, the oil would have to be based on what |
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41:04 | says, the oil gradient would have be like that not drawn on |
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41:12 | Uh But that's what we do. I was thinking it was on there |
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41:18 | the other ones. I just uh about that. Yeah, I'm glad |
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41:23 | asked the question because I want people understand it because it's actually simple if |
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41:27 | if a knucklehead doesn't explain it to . So um here again, there's |
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41:32 | gas gradient with that column and uh um but that's the maximum thing here |
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41:42 | the maximum oil M U L like said before, it goes like |
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41:48 | it's, it's steeper than the but it's shallower than the gas. |
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41:54 | it's so good like that. It's simple. So that one, it |
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42:00 | be but it will not uh it's . The reason it's leaking because the |
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42:09 | it's drawn, if, if we the column, Eddie Gabriel, it's |
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42:14 | be here's the spill point on the which has nothing to do with |
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42:19 | The spill point on the structure is that if we try to fill |
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42:24 | if I move the oil gradient down here, it's gonna leak like crazy |
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42:32 | , until the water column seeps out hits up to here. OK. |
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42:37 | , if it was all this was gas take this gas gradient, it |
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42:45 | this spill point. Look at how it is, that will all be |
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42:51 | that gas will that gas gradient will until it hits the seal? |
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43:00 | So it can only fill up, to, to that level and the |
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43:04 | can up to this level, oil to this level because it'll be really |
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43:11 | with the oil right now. Down hear the oil is ok. But |
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43:16 | you, if I bring it all way down here, the oil is |
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43:18 | be exceeding the buoyancy pressure will exceed C 03. Does it make more |
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43:25 | now? And trust me, if you've ever had to uh, |
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43:30 | things out on a, on uh, on the wall, it's |
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43:33 | hard to, to actually see And uh, Fred Hiltermann says |
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43:39 | you know, he never writes formulas the blackboard because because he always misses |
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43:43 | variable or something. And, and this is, uh, that's |
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43:53 | class three and then here's the class and again, here's maximum oil. |
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43:59 | is it maximum oil? Because here's oil again and I can bring it |
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44:04 | to here and still doesn't that look , it felt like that and I |
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44:09 | bring it down to here. Here's the natural possible gas gradient because |
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44:16 | this point it's right there. If bring it down here, it |
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44:20 | it leaks more, it leaks It makes more, it makes |
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44:23 | it makes I oil down here. I get to write about they |
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44:36 | his strikes could be a little bit too. But, but you |
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44:38 | you get what I was saying? go back backwards and forwards on |
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44:42 | You can understand the again. Uh , it's a really good thing for |
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44:47 | exploration is and now when these maximum are so when he's projecting to the |
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44:54 | , you know, I think we this like well gas, if |
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44:58 | that reach like say this bull's eye spin and it creates a hydrocarbon column |
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45:06 | sound to here, he's gonna be . OK. Go ahead. |
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45:13 | you uh Yeah, yeah, because because water, this is the water |
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45:26 | on this, this is the gas and this is the oil gradient |
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45:31 | And so that's exactly right once you that, you know, and so |
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45:37 | here I've got the oil gradient and it was, if my thing was |
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45:44 | little bit longer, you know, can see when I reached this |
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45:48 | it would intersect the bound here. that's where the maximum with that |
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45:56 | If the seal strength was weaker, know, you have to be a |
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45:59 | of higher up too. Ok. , um, and seal strength relates |
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46:17 | , um, can relate to, , fractured rocks if, um, |
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46:24 | normally when a, when a rock it's, it's, it basically ruptures |
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46:29 | it, and it fails, it's failed seal if, uh, I |
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46:34 | another thing to point out is with membrane seals, you know, |
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46:39 | the pressure goes up and leaks and and leaks and kind of protects itself |
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46:43 | filter paper. Um, you once it clogs up, that's |
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46:47 | You know, you're not gonna get more stuff through the little stuff can |
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46:51 | through. And, um, but, but well, wouldn't do |
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46:56 | . But, but the thing is that it's almost, it's almost |
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47:01 | a certain extent, it's effective as as you don't exceed it and you |
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47:07 | exceed it for a little while and leap and then it'll be effective again |
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47:11 | a, for a small amount. a, uh hydraulic seal, once |
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47:16 | breaks, it's gonna leak just about and everything. Although with all those |
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47:22 | in there, it's possible that it be a little bit self healing. |
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47:26 | , uh, but basically a uh, hydraulic seal is one |
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47:31 | you know, it's either good or bad. Usually the, um, |
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47:36 | membrane ones based on the buoyancy uh will determine how, how deep |
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47:45 | can fill it with oil, how you can fill it with its and |
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47:51 | looking at the diagram, it doesn't that much sense. But if you |
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47:54 | looking at a, you know, we used to call them maps and |
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48:01 | think they're so funny. There are that do re characters say it's |
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48:10 | But uh but you know, you do a circle like that and |
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48:15 | we think there's a resource there. , what our contacts about, whatever |
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48:20 | is 7500, that's a good It had to come. Uh then |
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48:27 | else, they might say this it was like that. This is |
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48:32 | , this is the OK. But turns out the site department column, |
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48:39 | me. And I didn't notice. . And here is, here is |
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48:50 | , um here is a uh you , for example, here in this |
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48:57 | , you know, the um your they have, you know, hydrocarbon |
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49:03 | the way down here in a single , like it will never fill up |
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49:07 | get this, this, but that really work. OK? And we |
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49:35 | about that, but uh go ahead read it and um a lot |
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49:42 | a lot of the things that they to test, test, these things |
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49:45 | kind of, I think mercury injection work for testing it. But uh |
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49:51 | sometimes the calculations really require something that's in a um you know, you |
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49:58 | fixed environment and you can uh just stuff on one side, one pressure |
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50:03 | stuff on the other side, another without actually having to force things |
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50:07 | Um I don't know if you guys when um we got the mask for |
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50:13 | , you know, when they test things, you know, they're, |
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50:16 | i to see if something a certain will get through there. So, |
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50:21 | were they overlooked when that happened? , the size of the mask are |
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50:27 | problem too. But what about the ? I mean, you know, |
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50:30 | have to, here's a, this relates to oil by the |
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50:35 | but um in a, in a seal, but you have this |
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50:42 | So this is my sp point in . And uh you know, you're |
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50:47 | into this cloud of something and you these little things coming in here like |
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50:53 | . Now, if I have a , I machine in there, if |
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50:56 | says, hey, I'm gonna, gonna go around to the edge, |
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50:59 | unfortunately, they have no control There's just floating in the air, |
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51:03 | heat of the mask for geologist to understand the mask if you excuse |
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51:08 | But, but, but this um mask, the, the whole point |
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51:14 | it isn't to stop. Everything is uh which is why surgeon part of |
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51:20 | surgery. But uh but if you um and that's, that's one of |
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51:29 | , but here we have um and some cases depending on the patients, |
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51:33 | it was protecting them too. But in, in those mass um are |
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51:43 | of fires like this. So each of those brains needs to, to |
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51:48 | in and then turn and go in they, uh the, the reason |
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51:53 | mask probably are much more effective than test might show is because the, |
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52:00 | like the rou going through a system circuitous as opposed to just the whole |
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52:08 | uh like, I don't know if ever worked with micropore filters, doing |
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52:12 | type stuff, but a micropore filter pretty much keeps things of a certain |
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52:18 | at it. It isn't just because the holes are like this, you |
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52:25 | , it's not all that one little size. It's because there's a grid |
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52:29 | things that won't allow something to actually through the yeah uh a uh membrane |
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52:38 | and similar to that type of a membrane seal is the same. |
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52:43 | uh not that it's important anymore, the, the, the value of |
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52:49 | is that it stops everything, the of it, it stops a lot |
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52:53 | there's some viral viruses that you get or two grains and you're, you're |
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52:59 | . Um like Ebola, I think like, but uh COVID-19 wasn't like |
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53:04 | . So the key, the key to reduce the exposure. You |
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53:08 | if you knock out 80 90% you won't get it. And uh and |
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53:15 | , that's why some people were pushing , but it's also why, you |
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53:20 | , you know, you, the thing that you can't control is how |
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53:23 | people put it on. Um, even like, uh, when they |
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53:28 | about prophylactics, you know, the rate is really high and that's because |
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53:34 | people put them on wrong and, , if you're wearing a mask |
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53:37 | it's the same thing. Um, many people wore them like this and |
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53:44 | , that doesn't help your nose at but it doesn't itch and I get |
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53:50 | they're annoying. But uh but if wear one for a while, you |
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53:55 | don't notice it unless you know, people have phobias for things like that |
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54:00 | you can't change that. OK. I, and I'm not trying to |
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54:08 | you to believe in anything. I'm telling you how it works. |
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54:12 | uh anyway, uh this, this diagram is uh showing that um |
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54:22 | there are places in the column where can have multiple oh here's a well |
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54:28 | low saturation gap below a small gas . And you can see here is |
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54:34 | water gradient, here's a uh the gradient. And uh in other |
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54:40 | this is where it goes over. um here's, here's the gas |
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54:46 | I think over here it does have but what it shows you is that |
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54:49 | gas at this level is gonna be through quite a bit. And you |
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54:54 | do this on structural diagrams like And uh and you can see that |
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54:59 | , you may lose some oil and because of something like this. But |
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55:04 | you were to go, if you a structure like this deeper, |
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55:12 | I don't have the other one But uh if, if, if |
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55:17 | formation was down here, uh you be below this fracture gradient. So |
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55:22 | other words, structurally where you at , can help you at, so |
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55:26 | deeper deeper uh might pull. In words, this is, this is |
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55:32 | the wealth um past the fracture But if you have something out here |
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55:39 | , but here you, you um didn't get, you didn't get to |
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55:42 | fracture point. And so the reservoir here, yeah, you can't even |
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55:48 | it. Yeah. So if you a, if you had a |
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55:54 | say over here, it might might be a cool as opposed to |
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55:59 | over here. OK. Here is another thing that happened similar to this |
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56:11 | here you can see um eventually less to more dense fluids and that happens |
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56:19 | this and uh you're gonna get fluid in here like this. It's got |
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56:25 | and gas. If the seals are , it's gonna preserve the gas |
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56:28 | As you go up there, it's get heavier and heavier. And uh |
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56:33 | on, I'll show you an it's uh very different from this. |
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56:37 | uh there's uh in Venezuela, there's a bacteria that heats up the |
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56:45 | the light hydrocarbons and uh and So gets heavier and heavier uh that |
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56:50 | But a lot of times um uh can also see the reverse of |
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56:58 | OK. So, but this is of showing you is you have a |
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57:02 | one here, we have a class here and you have three here. |
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57:08 | uh that's kind of what I was you if you back up. In |
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57:11 | words, that first diagram go to over the fracture gradient up here, |
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57:15 | you can come down deeper in the . You actually get it inside. |
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57:20 | is going from um this one, one to this one. So we're |
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57:26 | here, uh we're filling it with and gas. Uh And then if |
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57:31 | get more gas, it's gonna eventually include this and the oil will get |
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57:37 | . You can even get more gas if you had too much gas. |
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57:47 | . Another thing is uh faults. often use faults as seals. How |
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57:53 | of you have heard of turtle of structures? And uh have you heard |
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57:58 | a half turtle? Usually a half is you had a turtle structure and |
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58:02 | got faulted and the fault ceiling the dip side of it. Other |
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58:07 | um you have one of these things um this is gonna be a really |
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58:16 | cartoon. Would you have something that like this? And um the turtle |
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58:22 | be uh the reason is this and is because uh you might have |
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58:29 | , um, I don't have This is and, um, to |
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58:48 | with, it's something like this. when you, when you pull the |
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58:51 | out from the edges, you have diaper over here and a diaper over |
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58:58 | and you get to doing this kind thing and, uh, the salts |
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59:03 | it, uh, sometimes you can a fall through here and the fat |
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59:07 | it on one of those sides and it tips just a little bit, |
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59:10 | probably gonna catch a lot with and I actually think that's what's right |
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59:14 | us in, in the Houston a really big one, but no |
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59:21 | will drill it. So I don't to worry about that one. When |
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59:24 | worked at Mobile, I drilled uh wells and they all found oil and |
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59:29 | even in places they didn't think it be. And uh I think I |
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59:38 | uh at a different uh more of arm's length with Amico, except in |
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59:42 | case, but the one that, I had more impact on was, |
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59:46 | definitely a good one and the um one was 60 million barrels of |
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59:51 | but, but not good enough because economics weren't right. Ok. Um |
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60:00 | faults can act like that, but can also act as conduits. So |
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60:04 | , you know, the big all these people are going in |
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60:07 | is the fault ceiling or is it ceiling? And there's a lot of |
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60:10 | that can impact that. And, , and here, uh, we |
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60:17 | see, we got something I see here. So this is a class |
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60:23 | or a class three, right? , uh, and so Pop Seal |
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60:28 | always gonna be important. So when , anybody ever asks you about a |
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60:33 | , remember that the top of the gets to see the schedule. |
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60:40 | Here we have one with a playing . I would have probably preferred to |
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60:45 | it like that. But they, draw this football and, um, |
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60:51 | they've got a sand unit and, , why do you think that they've |
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60:58 | this little, you, uh, right here, it's just that it's |
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61:09 | the odd, it's, um, , presumably we've got a seal along |
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61:18 | fault with gouge all along here. here there's a san, it's directly |
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61:23 | the other side of the fault from sand. And so they're trying |
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61:27 | to show you diagram and sleep this is not realistic, but at |
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61:32 | same time, it's trying to explain us that this could lead to. |
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61:41 | . Now, if balls are actively , they can't move. Unless they |
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61:45 | , if they dial like oil and , dialing oil and gas to |
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61:49 | they're traveling through them. Um, other words, and, uh, |
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61:56 | some faults that I work on that , um, many, many beds |
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62:01 | up against them like this and the column gets lighter. And lighter as |
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62:07 | go up as though just the opposite what I show you as you go |
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62:11 | , it gets heavier, uh, gets lighter because, uh, at |
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62:15 | point in time the seal was, very dilated. And the oil, |
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62:19 | , the, uh, gas, , uh, charge sort of equilibrated |
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62:26 | that you would have gas in the out here. Well, here, |
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62:31 | , well, here, heavier, , here and then I put in |
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62:33 | at the bottom in that same We had Strat traps too, which |
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62:38 | really interesting. But uh this is of trying to show you some important |
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62:44 | . Um This is where we we could fill into the structural spill |
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62:48 | . So that big big diagram, would be, you know, the |
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62:52 | Bob map uh is it really is seal strong enough to hold it or |
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62:58 | ? Um This is uh apparently the point capacity. Uh So if you |
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63:08 | down here, it's gonna start If you get here, it |
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63:11 | but you might get, get um failure still, still quite. In |
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63:17 | words, here's, here's gouge, gouge and here it's failed. And |
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63:23 | and um here, if it's just because of the sand all the way |
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63:27 | here, it would leave up to . So if I don't worry about |
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63:33 | fault over here, if I had diagram, I didn't have to worry |
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63:36 | , I would know there's nothing on side that was for us, |
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63:39 | from here to the top and top has to be good. Ok. |
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63:45 | there's a gouge problem here, it's across the sand that's as high as |
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63:50 | could get. I don't actually know it is but that would be as |
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63:52 | as it could get here. if it was still absolutely to |
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63:59 | uh, I would start leaking if come all the way down to |
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64:03 | it's probably not gonna spill out because gonna leak before it gets to |
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64:07 | So, you ever see that? . And uh this, um, |
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64:14 | something I like to show people. don't hear of a lot of people |
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64:17 | this. But uh, but uh , I've worked on it sometimes |
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64:23 | and other people have, um, been a while since I've done, |
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64:28 | know, any of this kind of , but basically, there's different ways |
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64:33 | evaluate how much shale ga you might relative to how much sand you |
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64:39 | That's all these diagrams are trying to you. Um There's, um, |
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64:45 | here's why I'm looking at a entire plane, you know, you've got |
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64:50 | throw and you can see the sands separated. So it's probably a |
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64:53 | see, in other words, this , doesn't fail, that's a |
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64:58 | uh But also, uh there's ones uh you um uh take the road |
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65:07 | the failing or thickness and um, A N G L layer what's gonna |
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65:16 | to your, uh, smear I think it's a sea bleach, |
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65:27 | ? So, if, if if you have a really thick |
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65:31 | uh versus the fall throw, what's happen, uh, this number is |
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65:38 | get small, it's gonna get smaller smaller. So then it says less |
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65:43 | four. So, um, if gets really small, it would probably |
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65:47 | less than one. In other the, the relative thickness of the |
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65:52 | through the sand will have an impact how much smear I'd say either. |
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65:59 | don't know why, sort of a thing. But uh it's a |
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66:05 | you get a sphere and uh and this one too, there's different ways |
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66:09 | populating it yet at the same um it kind of, do you |
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66:15 | , they kind of give you a of a probability in a very practical |
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66:20 | of how it works. Uh The way is to drill a well and |
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66:24 | out what it really is. um, and once you've done it |
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66:27 | an area at certain elevate or depth whatnot, you kind of get a |
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66:31 | handle on, on, uh we're of faults are leaking and sealing. |
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66:36 | a lot of times in when I oil and gas, the faults were |
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66:40 | sealed at that point in time and we didn't really have to rid of |
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66:44 | too much. And this is another that just uh looks at, uh |
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66:50 | know, spending a lot of time at, you know, instead of |
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66:53 | simple number or less simple number and and a more complicated number to try |
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66:58 | figure out what, what that ratio sand and, and is what else |
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67:03 | in faults? Have you guys had geology? Yeah. So what happens |
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67:13 | fault? What happens when the rocks like this can have someone you can |
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67:24 | the way the light night. Did say that? Yeah. Yeah. |
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67:29 | you, you can get uh what it? Cataclysm? Yeah. And |
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67:35 | um so that can happen too, can seal it up pretty tight and |
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67:40 | you can get cements in there and sort of thing as well. And |
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67:44 | I did my master studying the zones the All right. So you know |
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67:50 | this. Yeah, I sort of I was just particularly the and it's |
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67:57 | you just as a and it's not like that. Uh But, but |
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68:04 | you were at you where you saw was good sea power. Uh Sometimes |
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68:09 | , you are feeling that sometimes I it's depend on the Yeah, it |
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68:15 | on what depth you're at too. . So um here's something that's kind |
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68:21 | an interesting seal and uh this always people off but here you have uh |
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68:27 | overpressure here and uh and um and the pressure gradient picks up down |
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68:34 | somewhere shifts over, but here you something that, um, um, |
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68:44 | , uh over overpressure, you have up here and the, the overpressure |
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68:49 | was in here, deep out. so what you have uh in here |
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68:55 | , um, yeah, um, seal gets pushed and collapsed on here |
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69:02 | it gets collapsed in here and it's of, it's kind of like |
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69:05 | uh it's trying to compress the, whole thing. So it's like you |
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69:09 | a uh an ring here, an there and it's pushing on it, |
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69:13 | it on both sides and uh I that thing. Uh What did um |
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69:20 | you, you know, this is sometimes called AAA dynamic seal. Um |
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69:27 | uh this is one of the uh of the worst kinds of things to |
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69:33 | into because, you know, you're have a, a set mud weight |
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69:36 | all of a sudden uh you're you're gonna see something like a wash |
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69:40 | and uh you can lose, lose hole and whatnot and uh sometimes you |
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69:44 | have these really high pressure systems uh and you hit it in something that's |
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69:50 | pressure like this. And uh and know, and uh actually uh plus |
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69:57 | uh assembly, uh the bottom hole somebody hit the side of us and |
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70:04 | trapped up against it and, and , and uh I had a couple |
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70:09 | wells that, that we were fortunate to do something stupid like that, |
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70:12 | we did it and uh there's ways get the tools out, but it's |
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70:16 | difficult. And that's when I was at Mobile and Amaco, at least |
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70:21 | the Gulf of Mexico, they always these zones were when they were |
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70:24 | And, uh, they were able actually believe it or not. He |
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70:29 | pick a fossil and the fossil would him that the zone was right underneath |
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70:34 | . They stopped drilling and set pacing dr through the and set a little |
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70:40 | again and then keep drilling deeper. ? Or maybe it was just a |
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70:50 | that they put in that zone. . So um another thing that we |
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70:55 | on in ex in exploration, of , are some of these intrinsic properties |
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70:59 | reservoirs gross is a really important thing coming up with, you know, |
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71:05 | a, in a rough sense, our velocity and permeability is in the |
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71:10 | and uh uh what our hydrocarbon saturation . And uh uh because that helps |
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71:17 | calculate the volumes that we might come . And these are are real, |
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71:21 | important numbers to get a handle You can do a lot of work |
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71:25 | , with getting averages like these. but it doesn't work everywhere. Permeability |
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71:31 | to be more uh variable often than ferocity in some of these primary porosity |
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71:37 | like clicking class systems in um carbonate . Uh All of these things can |
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71:45 | extremely variable and uh hydrocarbon saturations are because uh if you, if you |
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71:52 | high uh water saturations, um then um you have to, you have |
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71:58 | dispose of a lot of the water to, to break even. That's |
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72:03 | of the worst things about unconventional If, if they don't have a |
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72:06 | water saturation, you're not likely to um enough permeability to pull the, |
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72:13 | oil through by accident. Basically, um oil production and some of this |
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72:18 | really the demands you have are are highs Ws and of course, uh |
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72:25 | places, you know, despite our , it could be as much as |
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72:29 | or $14 a bar maybe more than back back when the boom was. |
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72:35 | , I think one of the highest ever, but at the same |
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72:39 | if you're trying to get oil out the ground, you know, that |
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72:42 | just a really a big added expense it's also a big uh environmental catastrophe |
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72:47 | time to time. You're not too . And um and this net to |
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72:53 | thing though is really important because what does that tell an expiration is |
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72:58 | an area? Then if the net up or the net goes, you |
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73:01 | what's going on and the net goes . We have uh well, it's |
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73:13 | , for example, um say, think my hio coastline was here and |
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73:27 | was land in this direction and this see in this we are, |
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73:41 | sometimes you can be far from the . But, but what I'm trying |
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73:46 | get at is as an exploration is helps you, what is it about |
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73:52 | ? It can draw your attention changes there are changes in the reg and |
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74:04 | and that you can see that this little thing. Um, you |
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74:12 | I, I remember when I first working, I wasn't sure why they |
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74:14 | worried about that. It's like, know, where's the sand? Just |
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74:17 | me where the sand is. But the same time, you know, |
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74:21 | you haven't drilled a lot of wells imagine you drill a well here, |
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74:28 | this is the coastline and you drill well here and you're all well |
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74:34 | And, um, and that's going in this direction. So it's telling |
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74:40 | where should we put the next to ? That, that's part of |
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74:44 | But where, where, where is risk? Yeah. Is it up |
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74:49 | down uh in, in the uh the paleo environment? And uh that |
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74:54 | have a direction on the map. But, you know, for |
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74:58 | if I really well here and a , here and a well here and |
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75:02 | have a real high negros like it's gonna tell me something about the |
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75:10 | of deposition. Yeah, that's something , that's parallel on the coast like |
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75:16 | stram or a um, or something that. But what if, what |
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75:21 | I see and what if I see that looks like this. 10. |
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75:30 | . And it's the sand that's probably , but what if I see something |
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75:35 | fan shaped, nothing in here but that's fan shaped way out in deep |
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75:40 | . What was the peel of The nest sort of? So, |
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75:43 | net of growth is really telling you you're having a sand depositional event versus |
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75:50 | non, where the faces are In other words, this is a |
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75:55 | center in deep water. These are centers in and, and that, |
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76:02 | thick of the sands, uh essentially um the shells and where, where |
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76:09 | wanna be focusing on that, whether the Jurassic, the place to see |
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76:15 | it is. So this number is important for or um uh exploration. |
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76:24 | if you're, if you're along the and you're not seeing anything, you |
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76:28 | , you may just the only see you see is maybe uh A T |
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76:32 | P building out, ok? Maybe you did, you might see something |
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76:40 | the younger section. But um the target is gonna be where you |
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76:45 | a high. And it's, it's of these things, if you map |
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76:50 | out on a map, say you wells five miles apart, you |
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76:54 | you can kind of figure out where should be focusing on more wells. |
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77:01 | . Here's another kind of thing that uh they look at and um, |
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77:10 | see if I can see the top . Yeah, I can see it |
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77:12 | you can't see it on there. . There's a gross over here. |
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77:16 | porosity, average permeability average. this is from the North Sea |
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77:21 | um, what, what they've done they've gone in. Engineers love to |
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77:26 | this, by the way, they to come up with these average numbers |
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77:29 | each one of these formations and the of things that, uh, you |
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77:34 | , where I'm gonna have a big in the heat you like uh do |
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77:40 | like the, the sheet? it's a web. The engineers always |
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77:46 | the sheets. Oh yeah, they Excel sheets. Yeah, we used |
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77:51 | have to fill these out by But uh but anyway, just telling |
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77:56 | a lot of different things about each of the formations and of course, |
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78:00 | you look at this, um you that each one of these variables uh |
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78:07 | a strong relationship to uh where we want to be drilling for oil and |
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78:13 | , where we drilled in the, the past where we're drilling now where |
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78:16 | might want to drill in the future what we can expect to find. |
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78:21 | , um it's kind of um giving an idea of how good something in |
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78:28 | unit, in this unit, these , how good in that reservoir of |
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78:34 | different ages. Uh The reservoirs can . In other words, what kind |
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78:38 | society, what's the characteristics of the ? Um you can't, you can |
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78:46 | it on the uh slides that that are online, but this is |
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78:50 | . This is permeability. This is in it, what's, what's charging |
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78:56 | re those reservoirs? And uh this a petroleum saturation or the inverse of |
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79:01 | S W. And uh this is expected recovery factor. And, and |
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79:09 | just understanding a lot about a particular as a reservoir rock is a useful |
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79:15 | for an exploration. And uh what's one of the things we talked about |
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79:23 | Roosevelt? Hm. So another thing is an exploration is we want to |
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79:30 | if there's a good regional source And of course, when I was |
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79:33 | you the examples, we knew where was a good source rock, but |
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79:35 | required some lateral stuff in the Chinese . I have a, do we |
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79:41 | a hunt to see the action? we have what? Like it's the |
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79:47 | one from the, from the you study in London? Yeah. |
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79:57 | yeah, it's, it's a uh a very sandy gas, yeah, |
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80:04 | a gassy sand. OK. and so uh anyway, um you |
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80:11 | what, what this is is, just kind of taking a look |
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80:14 | at a lot of what's been but it's also underscoring the importance of |
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80:20 | the unit, the Strat graphic unit that you might be exploring. |
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80:25 | um what I'm trying to get at the definition of a play one of |
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80:29 | elements of a play is the rest . And this is trying to show |
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80:35 | uh that people collect all this And if you, if you don't |
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80:39 | any in the past, if you into a new, for a new |
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80:43 | and a new formation, the Norwegian , even though it might cost $2 |
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80:49 | required to drill the core in a service so that people could look at |
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80:54 | more closely and get a better handle all these numbers. But the reason |
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80:59 | doing it is it's part of what what we call a play, you |
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81:03 | , play has three elements to We're gonna get to it eventually, |
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81:07 | there's three elements to it. One uh having a good regional seal, |
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81:12 | a good source and have a nice for my boys. And this |
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81:18 | this is one of those elements to makes the plan in the United |
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81:24 | For some reason, we want you have a structure which equals a |
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81:30 | but then that makes it a So sometimes I have a hard time |
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81:34 | the difference between the prospect in the States and the, but uh still |
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81:40 | out. The uh the prospect is , is a step, is a |
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81:44 | down or trying to track down and some places. And so uh what |
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81:49 | means is that we drill in a area and we're finding success with, |
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81:54 | a regional seal, a regional source a uh good reservoir rock. Um |
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82:01 | know anywhere near around it sometimes on like I was drawn here following, |
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82:08 | the Depositional Depot Center that's, that's to the coast. One that's like |
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82:12 | pay off, you know, it you an idea of where you go |
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82:16 | where to look. And one of first things and uh in the Gulf |
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82:22 | Mexico, we quite often uh automatically we're gonna have source rock. So |
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82:29 | of the things that I, I ever remember worrying about source rock in |
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82:33 | Gulf of Mexico. Now, um you look at some of the uh |
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82:38 | onshore that's offshore onshore, you might to worry about it a little bit |
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82:43 | you may have things that are actually had the Jurassic underneath them, maybe |
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82:50 | and maybe Wilcox. OK? I we've run out of time. |
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82:58 | um I think when we have class Monday, I'm gonna, I'm just |
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83:03 | flip the slides and, and just , see, OK, here's the |
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83:08 | one. I'm, I'm really trying get you guys interested in this because |
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83:15 | of all of this stuff is really . Um And it, it has |
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83:20 | be up in your head for you make decisions and, and figure out |
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83:24 | it is you have to do in of a workflow for that particular |
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83:30 | OK? But that I will let all get and see you on |
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