ice packs melting..i never got the anwer about the oil rigs,one out of thousands all over the world pump out?

Question

some oil rigs pump out a million barrels of crude oil per day that is 34 imperial gallons to 1 barrel,at the same time they force in sea water to help maintain pressure and help force the oil out,is there some kind of balance,with the ice packs melting,this question is basics not allowing for wind force factors,temperatures,or any other factors.

Answer 1

I'm not quite sure what question you are asking... Nevertheless:

It's not the "rigs" that pump the oil. They use rigs, which are mobile drilling units, to drill the wells. The oil is produced via these wells, via a number of different production systems. Under the North Sea, these may be via sub-sea well-heads and pipelines, or for bigger fields, fia fixed surface installations or "platforms".

The best single well I know of in the North Sea has a plateaux flow rate of around 25,000 barrels per day. Of course, that was just for one well. Imagine you had ten,or 100 or more wells per oil field, and lots of fields, and you can do the maths.

Putting it very simply, many oilfields have huge aquifers (water filled rocks) under the oil, which simply moves in to fill the space vacated by the oil, so to speak, under hydrostatic pressure. Some fields do not have such a good aquifer, or no aquifer at all, so you ned to inject water in via wells to force the oil out whilst maintaining pressure. Other fields may have a lot of gas dissolved in the oil. When you produce the oil, the pressure reduces, and then the gas comes out of solution and forms a gas cap, forcing the oil out from the top down.

As for carbon emissions, as well as natural (including vast volcanigenic) inputs, there are numerous "manmade" sources of atmospheric carbon dioxide aside from the use of oil - coal, deforestation, agricultural practises to name but a few.

Bear in mind that it's not the production of oil that directly contributes to carbon dioxide emissions, but the excessive and inefficient use of the stuff by certain peoples in certain countries.

Answer 2

"No", thats why there is global warming because the balance is FKD