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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
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Oil is the result of a compost with millions of years old - said Dr. Alejandro Carrillo, an expert in GEOFLUID Geoscience Centre at UNAM based --- swamps and oceans are mainly from Jurassic and Cretaceous periods with abundant plant, large quantities of clay and some other dinosaur died. Underwater, this organic matter was covered by millions of years of sediment that prevented oxygen combined with what would have generated only methane and CO2. The continuous accumulation of layers was adding pressure and temperature allowing the prehistoric compost "cook" very slowly to form a series of compounds we now know as petroleum.
pressure from overlying layers, oil flows into the upper echelons of the underground through pores and fractures in the rocks until you find a seal that is impervious to stop its ascent and allows the formation of a reservoir . These sites are not pools of liquid petroleum - says Dr. Carrillo --- but rocks are porous like a sponge soaked in oil, salt water and gas.
In some places the flow of oil finds no obstacle and springs to the surface where the contact with oxygen is converted into tar, as in the tar pits in Los Angeles, the chapopoteras of Veracruz or the oil slick off the coast of Campeche bothered both Captain Chito.
As in Cantarell, these outcrops were just where the first oil began to drill their wells. This oil was "easy" to obtain, once detected chapopotera a well was drilled if oil did not leave, moved the team to another nearby location until, with luck they found the site. As the developing oil industry generated a variety of methods that allows more effective drilling. Currently
said Dr. Carrillo, oil exploration is a set of many disciplines. But it is still very difficult to ensure the success of a well, now a 50% success, meaning that in 10 producing wells 5, is listed as excellent. When we think that this performance can drop to 20 to 30% and only drilling an oil well 6000 meters deep in Mexico it costs forty to fifty million pesos, we see how important is the exploration of hydrocarbons explains Alejandro Carrillo .
unconventional sources.
In the territory of Alberta in Canada, there are 15 thousand square miles of sand soaked in rent. This is not an industrial spill, but a natural event that brings great the strangled breath scenario of oil reserves. The "chapopotera" was formed millions of years ago when natural flows of oil flowed to the surface from deep underground. In 2003, the Department of Energy of the United States in their statistics include 174 billion barrels that can occur here, with what Canada was placed as the second-largest reserves of Saudi Arabia just below.
tar sands of Alberta may be transformed into conventional hydrocarbons in a process that removes sand and liquefied fuel and cooking it at high temperature by adding hydrogen to the mix. However, the ecological cost is very high, to process tar sand soil need to be removed leaving a huge scar on the landscape. Oil
renewable.
In 1999, Dr. Thomas Gold, an astrophysicist at Cornell University, published a book entitled "The deep hot biosphere." In its pages Dr. Gold proposed that the formation of oil was not due to decomposition of organic matter but a natural inorganic process performed at the interface between the mantle and the planet's crust 30 km deep. According to the mechanism proposed methane existing in the mantle is condensed at high temperature pockets achieve this condensation allow the formation of heavier molecules, ie oil.
As the proposed process is constant, Gold said that the earth was able to provide unlimited quantities of oil and not only that, because methane is a common molecule in the universe, there was the possibility of finding oil on other planets. So far most of the geological community does not accept this theory and considers it absolute madness.
pressure from overlying layers, oil flows into the upper echelons of the underground through pores and fractures in the rocks until you find a seal that is impervious to stop its ascent and allows the formation of a reservoir . These sites are not pools of liquid petroleum - says Dr. Carrillo --- but rocks are porous like a sponge soaked in oil, salt water and gas.
In some places the flow of oil finds no obstacle and springs to the surface where the contact with oxygen is converted into tar, as in the tar pits in Los Angeles, the chapopoteras of Veracruz or the oil slick off the coast of Campeche bothered both Captain Chito.
As in Cantarell, these outcrops were just where the first oil began to drill their wells. This oil was "easy" to obtain, once detected chapopotera a well was drilled if oil did not leave, moved the team to another nearby location until, with luck they found the site. As the developing oil industry generated a variety of methods that allows more effective drilling. Currently
said Dr. Carrillo, oil exploration is a set of many disciplines. But it is still very difficult to ensure the success of a well, now a 50% success, meaning that in 10 producing wells 5, is listed as excellent. When we think that this performance can drop to 20 to 30% and only drilling an oil well 6000 meters deep in Mexico it costs forty to fifty million pesos, we see how important is the exploration of hydrocarbons explains Alejandro Carrillo .
unconventional sources.
In the territory of Alberta in Canada, there are 15 thousand square miles of sand soaked in rent. This is not an industrial spill, but a natural event that brings great the strangled breath scenario of oil reserves. The "chapopotera" was formed millions of years ago when natural flows of oil flowed to the surface from deep underground. In 2003, the Department of Energy of the United States in their statistics include 174 billion barrels that can occur here, with what Canada was placed as the second-largest reserves of Saudi Arabia just below.
tar sands of Alberta may be transformed into conventional hydrocarbons in a process that removes sand and liquefied fuel and cooking it at high temperature by adding hydrogen to the mix. However, the ecological cost is very high, to process tar sand soil need to be removed leaving a huge scar on the landscape. Oil
renewable.
In 1999, Dr. Thomas Gold, an astrophysicist at Cornell University, published a book entitled "The deep hot biosphere." In its pages Dr. Gold proposed that the formation of oil was not due to decomposition of organic matter but a natural inorganic process performed at the interface between the mantle and the planet's crust 30 km deep. According to the mechanism proposed methane existing in the mantle is condensed at high temperature pockets achieve this condensation allow the formation of heavier molecules, ie oil.
As the proposed process is constant, Gold said that the earth was able to provide unlimited quantities of oil and not only that, because methane is a common molecule in the universe, there was the possibility of finding oil on other planets. So far most of the geological community does not accept this theory and considers it absolute madness.
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