Gasoline primer

Troubleshooter · 07-05-2004, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

An awful lot of the wells you see throughout the south and southwest, are the old pump type. The oil doesn't "gush" anymore and it's difficult/expensive to extract. Those wells are shut down unless the market price exceeds a threshhold that makes it economically viable to open them again.

I'll try to find an article on it but one of the theories to reinvigorate the wells is to start flooding them with saltwater and float the oil up as well as preventing underground pockets from forming.

xoxoxoBruce · 07-05-2004, 10:32 AM

I remember seeing an illustration in some magazine where they were injecting water under high pressure into something like every 3rd or 4th well in a field. That forced the oil that was trapped in the sand and shale, to migrate toward the wells that were still pumping. It seemed like an attempt to strip the bottom of the barrel, so to speak.

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xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	I remember seeing an illustration in some magazine where they were injecting water under high pressure into something like every 3rd or 4th well in a field. That forced the oil that was trapped in the sand and shale, to migrate toward the wells that were still pumping. It seemed like an attempt to strip the bottom of the barrel, so to speak. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

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