Peak Oil- what it is and how it will impact your life

It has been used for many years but in some very rudimentary form. In the 20's they would lower a barrel of nitroglycerin on a wire cable. Then they would drop what they called a "go devil ".basically a weighted bar with a hook that went around the cable.
They would drop it and run like hell. LOL.
Directional drilling was first used in California around the same period. They would put a rig on the beach and drill at an angle out under the ocean.
Those technologies from back then are unrecognizable today. The advancements, even in the last couple.of decades is phenomenal. Spurred on by the higher price of oil. Directional companies today claim that if you could bury a coke can 10,000 foot deep, anywhere in a mile radius that they could drill into it. I don't personally vouch for that but I wouldn't bet against it either. I have seen them do some amazing things with directional drilling. And I was doing 15,000 psi fracs in Saudi just a few years ago. The equipment to handle that kind of pressures didn't exist until the last decade. So to claim that those technologies have been around for decades is technically true but shows a person's ignorance if they claim that they are in any way comparable to today's technology. It would be like comparing the Wright Brothers plane to a modern super sonic jet. Yeah,not even close to the same thing.

 

This stops being a discussion when it becomes argumentative.

 

It wasn't as an engineer in an office dealing with theoretical situations
It was in the field dealing with the realities. Spent most of my time explaining to engineers why that wouldn't work. Last 15 years as a Company Man for the largest oil company in the world.

As it seems you are only here to post in this one thread I'm sure you haven't explored the rest of the site. The numbers referenced in the posts. "That's 4" "Thats 5" are the allowed rebuttals to any subject. Anyone wanting to argue a point relentlessly will not be allowed. Any arguments are limited to 5 posts. The OP (original post/poster) a response to that topic. The OP gets a rebuttal, the other person gets one more response, the OP gets the last post. That's 5, that's the end of it. Any further posts continuing the argument will be deleted. You have had your limit plus some. So this topic is closed
If you want to.post something else, start another thread, contribute somewhere else on the site,go right ahead. But you're done here

 

You do understand the the environmental impact of your EV surpasses any impact of a conventional fueled vehicle. Mining for the raw materials impact, energy required to produce the batteries, lifetime of the Ev before replacement, environmental impact of the lithium battery pack, the fact that the electricity you utilize to charge your vehicles is produced by natural gas and coal fired power plants.

There is time to innovate newer technologies and the advent of EV’s is a step but not the fix. Oil and innovative technological advances will fuel (sic) the future and for now, both are necessary for that to happen. The US has, as estimated, 250 years of oil just in ANWAR. My hope is that our offspring are more interested in finding solutions than fighting about how we are going to get there.

 

This Tread is now LOCKED For 7 Days… Period…

 

When you hear bidumb regurgitating that same old liberal shiite about the "massive" profits these evil oil companies make, stop a minute and look at some facts.
The oil industry reinvests more of thier profits into future production and development than any other industry. By far. The only one that comes close is the pharmaceutical industry.
With oil and gas it is a finite resource. Fields diminish over time. Gas fields much quicker than oil. Production falls off and you have to continually develope new wells and new production to replace the losses. It is a massive investment in expenditures to insure a net profit in the future.