Generally speaking, oil and gas are formed from the organic remains of marine organisms which become entrained within sea-floor sediments. Coal, by contrast, is typically formed in non-marine settings from the remains of land vegetation.
Originally posted by Rigel Kent
Originally posted by Astroved
reply to post by shauny
Nevermind that of the 50,000 offshore oil rigs
Where did you get that figure from?
I was under the impression that there are less than 1000 jack-ups and semi-subs. please post your source
FROM WIKI.....
As of June, 2010, there were over 620 mobile offshore drilling rigs (Jackups, semisubs, drillships, barges) available for service in the competitive rig fleet. [5]
Source: Worldwide Offshore Rig Utilization
PEACE,
RK
Originally posted by SneakAPeek
reply to post by shauny
The oil reservoir BP tapped is 26,000FT BSL. Not 15,000.
Originally posted by Astroved
Originally posted by Rigel Kent
Originally posted by Astroved
reply to post by shauny
Nevermind that of the 50,000 offshore oil rigs
Where did you get that figure from?
I was under the impression that there are less than 1000 jack-ups and semi-subs. please post your source
FROM WIKI.....
As of June, 2010, there were over 620 mobile offshore drilling rigs (Jackups, semisubs, drillships, barges) available for service in the competitive rig fleet. [5]
Source: Worldwide Offshore Rig Utilization
PEACE,
RK
Hi Rigel Kent, good question. I should have said offshore oil wells drilled, NOT current oil rigs. I've been looking for confirmation of the 50,000 offshore wells and have found round-about confirmation that this figure is NOT crazy. See this link on UK offshore drilling (almost 11,000 offshore wells):
www.oilandgasuk.co.uk...
And more on offshore drilling:
www.accessscience.com...
Underwater oil drilling has been going on since 1891 (Ohio), the first offshore rig in 1896 (California).
My point being that they have been offshore drilling for over a hundred years and nothing of this magnitude has happened before.
Why did ALL fail-safes fail on Deep Water Horizon?
The world's deepest platform is the Perdido in the Gulf (owned by Royal Dutch Shell) at 7,997 feet (2,438 meters) below sea level.
Obama has just promised Petrobras $2 Billion US taxpayers dollars to do their Ultra Deep Water drilling at 14,022 feet below sea level. Why?
The environmentalists have forced US oil companies to drill in riskier, deeper water, instead of drilling in shallower, safer waters or on land. This did NOT need to happen.
I hate the oil companies too, they have killed & buried real alternatives to oil. But this is NOT the time to shut down 33 US rigs with a National Academy of Engineering review that was falsified by Salazar.
Oh, and to answer your question more directly: this 50,000 offshore oil wells figure came from a man with a full-time research staff. However, I do NOT belong to his service, so I cannot research his archives. The figure was announced on a recent June TV show: Glenn Beck.
Astroved
where is obama going to get that two billion from since the country is broke? i guess china will let him have it.
Originally posted by Rigel Kent
reply to post by Astroved
Astroved,
when you stated "offshore rigs" I assumed you were talking about offshore drilling rigs of which I am pretty sure there are less than 1000 worldwide.
Production facilities such as platforms, FSO's and FPSO's are not drilling rigs and should not be confused with such. They are specifically for production and are put in place long after the drilling rig has left the location. These installations probably do run into the 10's of 1000's.
I have no idea how many offshore wells have been drilled but would not argue with your figure of 50 000.
thanks for coming back to clarify your original comments, they make more sense to me now.
PEACE,
RK
Originally posted by Aaron_Justin
I do not really understand all of these, "oh, I get it now" responses to this thread. What has learning the depth of the well taught you that you didn't already know? Want to see exploratory drilling stop in deep water, then bug your congressmen and women to relax and let us drill more on land where its safer. I know, mean old oil people are gonna get ya while your sleeping sound in your bed, surrounded by products that were made possible with oil.
CLAIM: BP's deepwater drilling due to environmentalists, federal government "pushed us out there." Several Fox News figures, including Sarah Palin, Charles Krauthammer, Steve Doocy, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly, have claimed that, as Hannity put it, BP "should have been in ANWR and shallower waters, and environmentalists pushed us out there." Similarly, Fox News contributors Andrew Napolitano and Bill Kristol, and Fox guest and BigGovernment.com editor-in-chief Mike Flynn have blamed the federal government for, in Flynn's words, "ma[king] them drill in water that deep."
REALITY: Deep-water regions feature vast oil reserves that make such drilling potentially lucrative. According to the U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service, the "best source of new domestic energy resources lies in the deep water." The deepwater region of the Gulf has also been identified as "probably the most promising area in United States-controlled territory."
