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Look up Ford's Hemp Car on YouTube. The car is made mostly of hemp & is also running on hemp. He hits the back of the car with a crowbar & nary a dent.
Big Oil/Steel had the gov make hemp illegal because they didn't want the competition. This is why marijuana became "evil" & illegal so .gov could connect hemp & it's sister plant, marijuana together & tell the nation that they were evil drugs that had to be banned.
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Don't forget about wind turbine blades. Pretty sure every progressive is a not in my backyard type...
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The whole natural gas industry has been vilified because of fracking. North East Pennsylvania and all of New York have moratoriums in place.
Think I read somewhere that there is more energy in the Marcellus shale formation than all of Saudi Arabia. This may be in including Utica formation as well.
Fracking has come such a long way in the last few years. Longer laterals, recycling of frack water. Not sure if injection wells are still being used but that was an issue in my opinion.
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On the first page of this thread I get an "out of memory" error message over and over and over again, every time when I reach the same post scrolling down (even on the archived version archive.is/QAEaY!)...
In the Netherlands we've stopped pumping gas supposedly over concerns of earth quakes and houses breaking down or something.
There is talk of maybe "fixing" the high energy prices through subsidies, as if we don't have enough of these to inflate prices more...
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Also infrastructure is behind production. Pipeline companies are aggressively leasing and building pipeline in my area.
ROW’s are going from $15-25 per foot for 20” lines to $100+.
Oh and Shell has committed to a huge cracker plant in Southwest Pennsylvania.
Edited to add I am no expert by any means. But it is my understanding the earthquakes have more to do with injection wells for disposal of waste (fracking water) then the process of fracking itself.
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Yes sir! The Shell ethane cracker is online or will be very soon, in Monaca, PA, just north of Pittsburgh. There is another cracker under construction in Belmont, OH, on the Ohio river, and another one planned in WV, I believe. These plants are very good news for the prospects of the northeast - they'll be providing the feed stock for manufacturers of PE, HDPE, etc. In a few years, we should be seeing those facilities locating to this area, generating thousands of good paying blue collar and white collar jobs.
They "gush" (if they do at all) because of hydrostatic pressure - "gushing" only requires a sufficiently large pressure differential.
Crudely, you can think of it like the contrast between opening a tube of toothpaste that is being lightly gripped and opening one that is being tightly squeezed.
The presence of gas in the "toothpaste", if (and how well) it is dissolved, and numerous other factors (such as the use of pumps) can increase or decrease the hydrostatic pressure differential. But other things equal, the deeper a well is (i.e., the more tightly the "toothpaste" is being squeezed), the more forcefully it should "gush" (if it does).
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I may be misremembering, but I think there was a brief stoppage due to a spill, or something along those lines, several years ago. But to my knowledge, drilling in NE PA (Tioga, Bradford, Susquehanna, Lycoming, Sullivan, Wyoming counties, etc.) has continued basically uninterrupted. There has never been much activity east of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, at least to my knowledge.
The major centers of drilling in Pennsylvania have been in those northeastern counties, and southwestern Pennsylvania, particularly Greene and Washington counties, with some activity in Fayette, Somerset (very little in the past 5 years), and also Allegheny. It picks up a bit, north of Allegheny, in Butler county. There is also some drilling in Westmoreland and Indiana counties, and sporadically from there up through central PA up to NE PA.
Glad to see you guys are still going strong.
The federal ban, which includes offshore, killed us.
That and the costs...the last ultra deepwater project I was on was in 9000 feet of water and a TVD to 25,000.
The sunk cost on that well alone was close to half a billion dollars.
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I'm with you - I'm no expert in this area, either. However, IF there is any correlation between injection wells and "tremors", which I believe would be the most generous term one could use regarding these particular events, I don't particularly think of them as in any way potentially catastrophic. Injection wells, as I understand it, are no deeper than your typical Utica well - that's about 13,000' vertically, and as much as 20,000' horizontally. I would assume that the vertical linear footage would be the relevant measure. That's just over 2 miles deep. Earthquakes, proper, are tectonic events which occur far deeper than a mere 2 miles. Also, while injection wells are pressurized, they are not fracked, at least as far as I'm aware. And technologies are emerging to deal with frack water that do not involve injecting the water into wells.
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We're gonna have to talk soon man. I'd love to hear more about your experiences. Land drilling is amazing enough, with directional technology and fracking, but to do all of that from a rig bobbing on the surface of the ocean through a couple miles of sea water... just unbelievable. A moonshot sounds about right!
Lets be perfectly clear here.
The only REAL crisis is the idiot Demoncrats who have shut down the supplies for the energy to begin with. Its not some scarcity thing. They murdered the supply chain. They shut down the oil and gas pipelines. They shut down the power plants. Yet, they expect us all to drive electric $#@!ing cars that dont work when there IS NO $#@!ING POWER GRID?
The Real Energy Crisis is the Govt itself.
Their real goal, murder as many as necessary to allow them to have PERMANENT POLITICAL POWER. They want a tyrannical regime that controls people by controlling the things they need to survive. Food. Power. Heat. How many millions will STARVE? How many millions more will die because the healthcare workers who are smart enough to not take their Deadly Vaxtermination Shot were forced to quit, which causes a chain reaction because those who need emergency medical care those that were smart enough to refuse can no longer provide said care? How many more will FREEZE TO DEATH?
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Was there for the whole cleanup/shut in at the site as well.
There I am, by the white arrow. The fellow that was at the helm of the vessel on scene when it exploded and pulled everybody to safety, was my Chief Officer for a number of years, much later after the incident.
In that shot I was standing by to deliver a load of dispersant to the blue and white Kelvin Marine vessel on my stern.
My mate, which had moved on to better things, was at that time second in command of the drilling rig that successfully intercepted the well bore, with a sidetrack secondary bore, to inject a cement plug and finally stop the leak.
They did that on a brand new rig that had not even completed sea trials. First hole.
Years later I met up with him at a bar in NOLA and he had one of the toolpushers that was on the job with him.
I told him how flabbergasted I was at them hitting that bore, on the first try, with a brand new and untested rig.
He equated it to hitting a hole in one, from Pebble Beach to Augusta, blindfolded, using someone else's clubs.
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Yep. All sounds about right. Would just add that gases compress much more easily than liquids, for instance, H2O.
But compressed gases would usually result in a explosive discharge of any solid or liquids in front of it, not a continuous stream as we usually imagine an oil gusher.
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Oil spikes to fresh multi-year peaks
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AFP 11 Oct 20212
World oil prices vaulted Monday to fresh multi-year pinnacles on strong demand and tight supplies, sparking inflation woes and weighing on most European stock markets.
London Brent oil jumped to a three-year high at $84.38 per barrel, while New York’s WTI crude leapt to a seven-year peak $81.72.
The recent decision by OPEC and other major producers not to ramp up output has further strained global supplies.
“Nerves are still clearly apparent in the markets,” OANDA analyst Craig Erlam told AFP.
“The energy crisis is a major concern in the coming months, while inflation concerns and the prospect of tighter monetary policy are among the numerous economic headwinds.”
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New England/New York/Mid-Atlantic states are much more gas/fuel oil/nuclear-oriented. Hydro comes down high voltage DC tie connections from Quebec as they are an immense hydropower “power”.Originally Posted by tod evans;[URL="tel:7064328"
California is a substantial residential solar area, which is a massive challenge for them to manage. A glut of power during the day (to where overgeneration is a major risk) followed by a massive surge in demand for the evening as people come home, the sun goes down, so you have a 1-2 punch with solar power dissipating and demand “showing up” as many homes turn from being energy sources to energy sinks, combined with the natural climb in power demand when people come home from work. To top it off, California has a massive chunk of the EV market, so you have converted liquid fuels into plug-in electric demand. Shifting that energy from an entirely different source of energy into new demand that never existed on the grid only compounds the problem.
For the Pacific Northwest, you’re hydro-heavy with the Columbia River and cascading hydro dams. Typically “long” on the power side, you’re shipping your megawatts down the Pacific DC interties to Southern California.
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