There's a new technology that allows oil companies to 'drill a clean hole' has anyone else heard of this?

Answer 1

well, thats good...there's nothing worse than drilling a dirty hole!

Answer 2

At this point, some people are banking on a "magic" alternative energy solution that does not yet exist. Hydrogen, for example is an energy conversion technique verses an energy source. ( Have you seen any hydrogen wells lately?) Yes, Solar and wind power can deliver a few energy crumbs but they cannot provide the massive amounts of energy needed. Given that oil fields take 8 to 10 years to develop and there isn't a viable alternative yet, the oil fields should be developed. Failure to do so will result in economic collapse and starvation. The oil situation now is causing starvation in the poorest parts of the world and it will get far worse. Domestic oil production has the added and very significant advantage of reducing the trade deficit. Huge amounts of money is leaving the country to buy oil. Domestic production at least keeps the money at home. If you lay a graph of the Gross Domestic Product over energy consumption, the graphs are identical. In the 70's, for example, GDP dropped right along with energy consumption. When energy consumption went up GDP went up and the recession was over. Free market forces alone cannot be relied on to provide for cheap energy and stave off environmental damage (Assuming that global warming is not natural). The government can intervene by requiring higher fleet gas mileages, lowering speed limits, relaxing safety requirements for vehicles and promoting higher efficiency systems such as offering tax rebates for increasing insulation, installing solar hot water heaters, heat recovery units and the like. The proposal to build 45 nuclear power plants is a good one. It will provide a base of energy production from which alternate fuels such as hydrogen can be developed and a bridge to the future without mass collapse. Right now, we are in a situation where we would be burning coal or oil to make the hydrogen, a fundementally inefficient process. I have no doubt that technologies will be developed that will make oil largely obsolete; however, we cannot bet our lives that they will be developed in time and must take appropriate action with what we have and know now.

Answer 3

I work for a major oil company. In fact I am in the drilling dept. and I am not clear precisely what you are referring to. I have to agree with Aussie in that more details are required.
When hole are drilled, mud is injected into the holes to bring debris to the top. Then casing and tubing is installed. That is just a rough description. More is involved of course.
Perhaps you could expand on your question a bit more.

There are new technologies emerging all the time and one day the oilsands will be easier to retrieve oil than at present.

Answer 4

If you're having trouble drilling clean holes, put a piece of ply wood under your work piece. That'll take care of what you're drilling. How the oil companies would do that, I'm not to sure.

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Answer 5

I'm a Diamond Driller by trade, and I know what a clean hole is.. You will have to be more specific as to what you mean by "drilling a clean hole".. It doesn't make any sense written that way without more details...

Answer 6

They have been drilling our clean holes forever, so I'm not surprised.

Answer 7

haven't herd it yet. If car mfg would get cars to get 70 90 miles to the gal. we wouldn't need new holes in the earth... and the technology is there to do it.

Answer 8

No, I haven't heard of that, and this is all I could find on Google. See paragraph seven...
http://www.investor.reuters.wallst.com/stocks/company-profile.asp?rpc=66&ticker=RES

Answer 9

Yes it is called a penis

Answer 10

No, I didn`t.If you have heared about it..you may tell me then.