The first floating rig was the Sedco A. Started working for Sedco in 1975 and retired 40 years later, the company changed names and the equipment changed amazingly as time went by. Was a great career but loving retirement. If your an oil hater start at the top of the chain, that would be you the consumer. If you don't want it drilled stop using it. I started supporting renewable's a long ago but it will be a long time before we stop needing oil. Two reasons energy density and portability.
I worked on seismic crews in central Saskatchewan. ( St Warburg. area and Meadow. Lake ) in the middle too late 1960s / also worked on. big rigs. for Peter. Bawden and. Jennings and. Commonwealth also in the 1960s on a few holes / and swamped and moved oil rigs. 1967 for Kaps. Transport Ltd ( Edmonton, Alberta based ) worked in the bush at that time ( winter) Rainbow. Lake, Alberta. Canada ( booming years for the oil industry ) Bill. S. Canada
what happens to the oil well when no more oil comes up what is the well filled with. there must be a large hole under the subsoil an gives unstable subsoil ?
I work with a man who works in the oilfield part time and he said after they finish a well they can come back later(not sure how much longer) and it will be filled back up with oil. So don't believe this "we're going to run out of oil soon" garbage. That's just so they can charge what they do for it
When an well bore becomes unproductive, regulations require isolation of the various formations penetrated. Cement plugs are spotted squeezed across the well bore, then verified in place. Much effort and funds are needed and expended in order to protect the underground environment. Competent responsible operators with adequate funding accomplish timely plugging of well bores. Much like low information politicians and citizens, not all oil production operators are competent & responsible. State and federal personnel are required to encourage timely plugging. While pluggings are, for the most part successful, there are exceptions.
No, the oil is located in the tiny pore spaces within the rock, somewhat like a sponge holding water. The oil is extracted but the solid rock remains and thus is stable, though some settling or deformation may occur due to the removal of the pressure in the formation. Typically brine (salt water) works its way up into the pore spaces evacuated by oil pushed up the well bore to the surface (or pumped out when the pressure in the formation is too low to push the oil all the way up the well bore) and wells will thus produce more and more brine over time. A great deal of the oil (usually well over half) remains trapped in the rock, stuck to the grains of sand in the rock, similar to how you can wring out a wet rag or sponge but SOME water will remain stuck in the fibers of it; you cannot wring it ALL out! The brine of course takes up the space and, over time as more brine migrates in, restores the pressure in the formation. They've discovered that many times wells which were no longer productive, if given a period of time, will build up pressure in the formation and allow the oil to migrate through the rock to the bore hole in sufficient quantities to be productive again, at least for a little while. SO there is no "hole" left where the oil was-- just rock that HAD been totally soaked with oil, which was now just oily with the remaining trapped oil inside its pores space's surfaces, while being mostly filled with salt water brine. Since water is heavier than oil, the oil will tend to be forced up over time and accumulate at the top of the formation. Now, we had sulfur wells located atop a salt dome near the next town over from our farm near Needville, TX. The nearby town is called Boling and there was a "company town" out just a couple miles from it called "Newgulf", which is now all but gone. There's some videos about Texas Gulf Sulfur Company (T.G.) here on UA-cam if you're interested. We had neighbors and friends who worked for TG sometimes for decades. Newgulf was a thriving town with a hospital, cafes, even a movie theater in the 50's, now it's almost totally gone, just a small neighborhood remaining. The sulfur wells were drilled several hundred feet deep into accumulations of sulfur atop the Boling Salt Dome, which is a huge underground formation caused when rock salt beds are deformed and forced up into massive columns or mushroom shaped formations underground by the massive weight of the heavier rock layers over the layer of rock salt. Salt is technically a "plastic" rock, meaning that it's very soft and deformable compared to the much harder rocks which tend to lay over it, and those other rocks are not only harder but also much denser than the relatively light salt layers they rest upon. Thus over time they will tend to force the salt to move like putty toward a "high spot" or other fracture or weakness in the overlying rock layers, at which point the rock salt is forced upwards much like toothpaste being forced out of a tube when the tube is stepped on... the salt will rise into a "dome" as it forces the overlying rock aside or upwards, and this salt typically brings up various minerals as well as oil and gas with it, so salt domes are very lucrative areas to search for oil and gas. The Boling Salt Dome contained massive amounts of sulfur brought up by the migrating salt, and so the company drilled wells down into the formation and pumped high pressure, high temperature water into the injection wells which melted and dissolved the sulfur, and this then flowed up production wells and through insulated pipelines back to the central plant, where the sulfur was removed from the water and the hot water recycled back down into the formation. The sulfur was then dried (in the old days) and loaded into railcars as powder or blocks and delivered to the Ship Channel in Houston or to the refineries and petrochemical plants along the Ship Channel for use. Later on the sulfur was kept as a liquid slurry which was pumped into tank cars and hauled by rail to Houston for use or export (60's and 70's). The plant has been shut down for decades because now most of the sulfur demand is met by sulfur removed from crude oil and diesel fuel, and much less sulfur is actually needed or used by industry compared to previous decades. Now, as the high temperture, high pressure water (several hundred degrees and several hundred PSI) was pumped through the formation, the high temperature melted the sulfur and dissolved large amounts of it as well, and brought it up out the wells. There was an ENORMOUS block of sulfur out there which at one time was larger than several city blocks and taller than many buildings, which was all sulfur extracted from below the ground. This extraction DID leave voids under the surface and due to the shallowness (only a few hundred feet deep) this led to subsidence of the land surface and an enormous shallow lake was formed on what was previously flat, level land... some of the roads out there are still partially visible as the land they were built on sank and was covered by water, with oil tanks and even power lines criss-crossing what had been dry land now out in the lake. It's clearly visible in satellite views just east of Boling, TX on Google Earth just south of FM 442 highway which curves around it. In fact the chambers are likely far more extensive than was realized, because back in about 1981 or 82 the highway about a mile from the edge of the lake actually collapsed into a football-stadium sized sinkhole which swallowed up the highway and two cars that inadvertently drove into it in the darkness. Thankfully no one died as they were able to swim out before their cars sank, but it took about 2 years for the government to haul in sufficient fill dirt to refill the remaining collapsed in sinkhole and then repave over it reconnecting the two sections of roadway, during that time traffic was diverted along local farm roads to the north of the sinkhole. The Boling sinkhole was rather famous for a time but now is just little known by locals.
I do love how the oil industry pat themselves on the back in every single promotional film for their record and actions on pollution, it just goes to show that they knew even back then that they did, and still do, produce pollutants that outstrip the usefulness of their products, products that are only of use to us as consumers, if we didn’t buy the products they wouldn’t manufacture them.
Looks like a sympathy evoking film for oil industry, that pops up in times of crashed oil prices and need for a bailout. Though it has a lot of interesting information. True.
OAC needs to see this !!!!!!!!!!!
The first floating rig was the Sedco A. Started working for Sedco in 1975 and retired 40 years later, the company changed names and the equipment changed amazingly as time went by. Was a great career but loving retirement. If your an oil hater start at the top of the chain, that would be you the consumer. If you don't want it drilled stop using it. I started supporting renewable's a long ago but it will be a long time before we stop needing oil. Two reasons energy density and portability.
Thanks for sharing ....appreciate it...
Excellent video (very interesting)
16:50 Some of the footage from this film was used in the 1988 educational film series The World of Chemistry
I've officially used Shell (V-Power Nitro+) since I've owned my car, and I'll continue using it for as long as I live.
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That's what word salad, sarah palin said.
@@Kamina1703 lol... 👍🍺
It's a world of oil
I worked on seismic crews in central Saskatchewan. ( St Warburg. area and Meadow. Lake ) in the middle too late 1960s / also worked on. big rigs. for Peter. Bawden and. Jennings and. Commonwealth also in the 1960s on a few holes / and swamped and moved oil rigs. 1967 for Kaps. Transport Ltd ( Edmonton, Alberta based ) worked in the bush at that time ( winter) Rainbow. Lake, Alberta. Canada ( booming years for the oil industry ) Bill. S. Canada
Interestingly, the tanker Mysia was scrapped in 1978 only 9 years after launch
2:54 what is this called? It's like the old trope of Eskimo's rubbing their noses together
CO Exister's 👭☯️⛾🔯 Don't forget..A Toyota Prius comes from oil too.
what happens to the oil well when no more oil comes up what is the well filled with. there must be a large hole under the subsoil an gives unstable subsoil ?
I work with a man who works in the oilfield part time and he said after they finish a well they can come back later(not sure how much longer) and it will be filled back up with oil. So don't believe this "we're going to run out of oil soon" garbage. That's just so they can charge what they do for it
When an well bore becomes unproductive, regulations require isolation of the various formations penetrated. Cement plugs are spotted squeezed across the well bore, then verified in place. Much effort and funds are needed and expended in order to protect the underground environment. Competent responsible operators with adequate funding accomplish timely plugging of well bores. Much like low information politicians and citizens, not all oil production operators are competent & responsible. State and federal personnel are required to encourage timely plugging. While pluggings are, for the most part successful, there are exceptions.
No, the oil is located in the tiny pore spaces within the rock, somewhat like a sponge holding water. The oil is extracted but the solid rock remains and thus is stable, though some settling or deformation may occur due to the removal of the pressure in the formation. Typically brine (salt water) works its way up into the pore spaces evacuated by oil pushed up the well bore to the surface (or pumped out when the pressure in the formation is too low to push the oil all the way up the well bore) and wells will thus produce more and more brine over time. A great deal of the oil (usually well over half) remains trapped in the rock, stuck to the grains of sand in the rock, similar to how you can wring out a wet rag or sponge but SOME water will remain stuck in the fibers of it; you cannot wring it ALL out! The brine of course takes up the space and, over time as more brine migrates in, restores the pressure in the formation. They've discovered that many times wells which were no longer productive, if given a period of time, will build up pressure in the formation and allow the oil to migrate through the rock to the bore hole in sufficient quantities to be productive again, at least for a little while.
SO there is no "hole" left where the oil was-- just rock that HAD been totally soaked with oil, which was now just oily with the remaining trapped oil inside its pores space's surfaces, while being mostly filled with salt water brine. Since water is heavier than oil, the oil will tend to be forced up over time and accumulate at the top of the formation.
Now, we had sulfur wells located atop a salt dome near the next town over from our farm near Needville, TX. The nearby town is called Boling and there was a "company town" out just a couple miles from it called "Newgulf", which is now all but gone. There's some videos about Texas Gulf Sulfur Company (T.G.) here on UA-cam if you're interested. We had neighbors and friends who worked for TG sometimes for decades. Newgulf was a thriving town with a hospital, cafes, even a movie theater in the 50's, now it's almost totally gone, just a small neighborhood remaining. The sulfur wells were drilled several hundred feet deep into accumulations of sulfur atop the Boling Salt Dome, which is a huge underground formation caused when rock salt beds are deformed and forced up into massive columns or mushroom shaped formations underground by the massive weight of the heavier rock layers over the layer of rock salt. Salt is technically a "plastic" rock, meaning that it's very soft and deformable compared to the much harder rocks which tend to lay over it, and those other rocks are not only harder but also much denser than the relatively light salt layers they rest upon. Thus over time they will tend to force the salt to move like putty toward a "high spot" or other fracture or weakness in the overlying rock layers, at which point the rock salt is forced upwards much like toothpaste being forced out of a tube when the tube is stepped on... the salt will rise into a "dome" as it forces the overlying rock aside or upwards, and this salt typically brings up various minerals as well as oil and gas with it, so salt domes are very lucrative areas to search for oil and gas. The Boling Salt Dome contained massive amounts of sulfur brought up by the migrating salt, and so the company drilled wells down into the formation and pumped high pressure, high temperature water into the injection wells which melted and dissolved the sulfur, and this then flowed up production wells and through insulated pipelines back to the central plant, where the sulfur was removed from the water and the hot water recycled back down into the formation. The sulfur was then dried (in the old days) and loaded into railcars as powder or blocks and delivered to the Ship Channel in Houston or to the refineries and petrochemical plants along the Ship Channel for use. Later on the sulfur was kept as a liquid slurry which was pumped into tank cars and hauled by rail to Houston for use or export (60's and 70's). The plant has been shut down for decades because now most of the sulfur demand is met by sulfur removed from crude oil and diesel fuel, and much less sulfur is actually needed or used by industry compared to previous decades. Now, as the high temperture, high pressure water (several hundred degrees and several hundred PSI) was pumped through the formation, the high temperature melted the sulfur and dissolved large amounts of it as well, and brought it up out the wells. There was an ENORMOUS block of sulfur out there which at one time was larger than several city blocks and taller than many buildings, which was all sulfur extracted from below the ground. This extraction DID leave voids under the surface and due to the shallowness (only a few hundred feet deep) this led to subsidence of the land surface and an enormous shallow lake was formed on what was previously flat, level land... some of the roads out there are still partially visible as the land they were built on sank and was covered by water, with oil tanks and even power lines criss-crossing what had been dry land now out in the lake. It's clearly visible in satellite views just east of Boling, TX on Google Earth just south of FM 442 highway which curves around it. In fact the chambers are likely far more extensive than was realized, because back in about 1981 or 82 the highway about a mile from the edge of the lake actually collapsed into a football-stadium sized sinkhole which swallowed up the highway and two cars that inadvertently drove into it in the darkness. Thankfully no one died as they were able to swim out before their cars sank, but it took about 2 years for the government to haul in sufficient fill dirt to refill the remaining collapsed in sinkhole and then repave over it reconnecting the two sections of roadway, during that time traffic was diverted along local farm roads to the north of the sinkhole. The Boling sinkhole was rather famous for a time but now is just little known by locals.
Where is that ? 3:25
Under there.
🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂🤣 If Shell Oil knew that oil futures would hit -37+- bucks a barrel in April of 2020. The future is so bright, we gotta' wear shades! 😎
Royal dutch Shell is at only 16.67 EUR. Buy !
I guess you like people losing their jobs and suffering up yours pal
Yeah. Thanks to lockdowns.
So oil refining is basically the cooking of dinosaur sauce
No HRC's, no impact gloves, no safety glasses, and where is the link tilt if there is no top drive?
The best oil is from Oil City PA.
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What year was this made?
Details says late 1960s, early 1970s. Not exact I afraid.
After 1969 when that tanker Mysia was built - so likely 1970-ish
I can't wait until my body makes fuel for something..
I do love how the oil industry pat themselves on the back in every single promotional film for their record and actions on pollution, it just goes to show that they knew even back then that they did, and still do, produce pollutants that outstrip the usefulness of their products, products that are only of use to us as consumers, if we didn’t buy the products they wouldn’t manufacture them.
You’re right so don’t buy any fuel or anything else made with with petroleum and see how long your miserable whining existence lasts.
Looks like a sympathy evoking film for oil industry, that pops up in times of crashed oil prices and need for a bailout. Though it has a lot of interesting information. True.
Oil another fraud