Pretty deep. But actually, not as deep as I thought. There are lots of trenches that are much deeper.
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Pretty deep. But actually, not as deep as I thought. There are lots of trenches that are much deeper.
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Link is broken… probably due to the “target=_” not ending up in the right place or something.
I find it interesting that there are these wild claims that the well is producing 100,000 barrels of oil per day that they are not capturing. That would make the BP well the most productive oil well in the world. Even the best flowing wells in Saudi Arabia’s GAWR field do not exceed 40k barrels per day.
Link should be fixed now.
Whoa. That’s even worse. Now the entire post text is missing, and the “This entry was posted by…” is a link. 🙁
Sorry. It really is fixed now, honest. Just quotes out of place.
That would make the BP well the most productive oil well in the world.
Well, we should look on the bright side. At least they were drilling in the right place. 😉
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Well, we should look on the bright side. At least they were drilling in the right place.
Even at the 10,000-11,000 barrels a day that they are capturing through the pipe, this makes the field that they are in one of the most productive in the world. Most wells on land in Texas are lucky to pump 10-100 barrels a day.
Here’s a good technical article –
Upstream Online
The best offshore wells I’ve worked with have produced well over 30,000 BOPD. Not any indication of what the Macondo well is actually flowing, but it’s a reasonable upper limit.
The total depth of 18,000 feet may be the length of the bore, not the actual depth – most wells these days are directionally drilled. So for example the target zone might be 5000 feet below the seabed but offset 12,000 feet horizontally.