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At The End Of The Earth: The Longest, Deepest Oil Wells In The World And in January, oil crews drilled the world's longest and deepest extended-reach well, 7.7 miles down into the ground and 7.1 miles out under the ocean. Seven of the 10 longest oil wells on Earth have been drilled there since Exxon Mobil launched its Sakhalin-1 project in 2003.
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Shaking hands with the Devil â The deepest hole ever drilled Although the original plan was for the hole to be drilled to 15,000 meters (49,000 ft), the project was unable to proceed due to the temperatures encountered. In recent years a few longer boreholes have been drilled, but the Kola Superdeep Borehole still holds the record for the deepest artificial point on earth.
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill. The U.S. government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 million barrels. After several failed efforts to contain the flow, the well was declared
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Ask Smithsonian: Whatâs the Deepest Hole Ever Dug? The oil and gas industry also claims some deep holes, on land and offshore. BP’s Deepwater Horizon holds the offshore record. The drilling rig—lost in an explosion in 2010— managed to get some 30,000 feet below the sea, or about 5 miles.
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Worldâs Largest Offshore Oil Platform an Engineering Masterpiece Perdido extracts oil from twenty-two oil wells and is connected a 27 mile (44 km) network of “umbilical” pipelines on the ocean floor which, in turn, connect with 4 risers that bring oil to the surface. (see image) Perdido: World’s Largest Offshore Oil Platform An Engineering Masterpiece (Image Courtesy www.shell.com)
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Plans unveiled to drill worldâs deepest well (1) Plans unveiled to drill world’s deepest well (1) Plans unveiled to drill world’s deepest well. By PRAMOD KULKARNI. HOUSTON -- The Cutting-edge Drilling Technology session at the Offshore Technology Conference went literally off the deep end with a presentation on “Designing the World’s Deepest Offshore Well to Drill and Core the Earth’s mantle”.
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Oil well Oil well. The pumpjack, such as this one located south of Midland, Texas, is a common sight in West Texas. An oil well is a boring in the Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface. Usually some natural gas is produced along with the oil. A well that is designed to produce mainly or only gas may be termed a gas well.
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Oil and Gas History of Kentucky: 1900 to Present The petroleum industry has been exploring for oil and gas in Wyoming for over 126 years. In 1884 the first oil well was drilled southeast of present day Lander. During 2009, 1,858 wells were drilled and completed.
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Water well Construction of hand dug wells can be dangerous due to collapse of the well bore, falling objects and asphyxiation, including from dewatering pump exhaust fumes. Woodingdean well, hand-dug between 1858 and 1862, is claimed to be the world's deepest hand-dug well at 1,285 feet (392 m).The Big Well in Greensburg, Kansas is billed as the world's largest hand-dug well, at 109 feet (33 m) deep and 32 feet (9.8 m) in diameter. dug well in a village in Faryab Province, Afghanistan. A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring, or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers.
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Deepwater Horizon (BP). On April 20, 2010, while drilling at the Macondo Prospect, there was an explosion on the rig caused by a blowout that killed 11 crew members. On April 22, 2010, Deepwater Horizon sank while the well was still active and caused the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.
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The History of Shell Oil Company This increased demand fueled Shell's search for new fields, and led to the discovery of oil and gas reservoirs in Louisiana and Texas. One, the Louisiana Weeks Island field, was brought into production with the deepest producing well in the world at the time.
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Oil platform Eni's Devil's Tower located in 1,710 m (5,610 ft) of water in the Gulf of Mexico, was the world's deepest spar until 2010. The world's deepest platform is currently the Perdido spar in the Gulf of Mexico, floating in 2,438 metres of water. It is operated by Royal Dutch Shell and was built at a cost of $3 billion.
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Atlantis Deepwater Oil and Gas Platform, Gulf of Mexico Atlantis Deepwater Oil and Gas Platform, Gulf of Mexico, United States of America. Key Data. Considered one of BP's most technically challenging projects ever, the Atlantis platform is the deepest moored floating dual oil and gas production facility in the world. Weighing in at 58,700t, it is also one of the largest.
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10 Most Amazing Sinkholes In The World Dean’s Blue Hole, The Bahamas – The world’s deepest known blue hole (underwater sinkhole) with seawater. It plunges 202 meters (663 ft) near Long Island, Bahamas. Dean’s Blue Hole is roughly circular at the surface, with a diameter ranging from 25 to 35 meters (82–115 ft).
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History of offshore drilling units The first “offshore” well, defined as, “out of sight of land,” was started on 9 September, 1947 by a tender assist drilling (TAD) unit owned by Kerr-McGee in 15 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
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Dictionary of Oil Industry Terminology Shell Announces Fort Sumter Discovery in Gulf Of Mexico. Shell announces a new exploration discovery in the deep water U.S. Gulf of Mexico. The initial estimated recoverable resources for the Fort Sumter well are more than 125 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe).
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Biography The name of his production company, Fuzzy Door, comes from the name of his apartment when he attended Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The door to the house was covered in fur. Based the voice of Peter Griffin mostly from a loud mouthed security guard that worked on the campus where he attended college.
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- The Story of Oil in Pennsylvania. The most important oil well ever drilled was in the middle of quiet farm country in northwestern Pennsylvania in 1859. For this was one of the first successful oil wells that was drilled for the sole purpose of finding oil.
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Water discovered deep beneath Earth's surface The depth of this water is around 400 miles, or 700 kilometers, and the deepest hole ever drilled in the Earth is about 10 kilometers, Jacobsen said. The story has more to do with understanding the composition of the Earth.. Collaboration of two laboratories.
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Transocean Settlement BP Exploration and Production, Inc. (“BP”) contracted with Transocean for the operation of the Deepwater Horizon to drill the Macondo Well. (For more information on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, see EPA Response to BP Spill in the Gulf).
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Water discovered deep beneath Earth's surface Because the water is so deep beneath the surface and not in a liquid form, Jacobsen said it could probably not be extracted for practical use for people on the surface. The depth of this water is around 400 miles, or 700 kilometers, and the deepest hole ever drilled in the Earth is about 10 kilometers, Jacobsen said. The story has more to do with understanding the composition of the Earth.. Collaboration of two laboratories.
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- Bobrka oil field, Poland in 1872. Many of these early wells were laboriously dug by hand. Others were drilled with spring poles, in which a springy wooden pole was stuck in the ground at an angle and a heavy metal drill bit attached by a cable to the head of the pole.
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- If the hole had reached the initial goal of 15,000 meters, temperatures would have reached a projected 300°C (572°F). When drilling stopped in 1994, the hole was over seven miles deep (12,262 meters), making it by far the deepest hole ever drilled by humankind. The last of the cores to be plucked from from the borehole were dated to be about 2.7 billion years old, or roughly 21 million times older than Coca Cola.
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- While the first oil well in the world to be drilled was in Romania, 1857, the first production well drilled in the United States was in 1859 in the town of Titusville. It was drilled by Colonel Drake on behalf of the Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company.
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- [–]iorgfeflkdBiophysics 263 points264 points265 points 3 years ago (129 children) The deepest we have dug is the Kola Superdeep Borehole in Russia which went about 12 km deep. There have also been some oil wells that have gone similarly deep.The deepest known cave is the Voronya cave which is about 2 km deep. permalink.
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History of the Industry 1942 — The Lake St. John Field on the eastern border of Louisiana was discovered. Nov. 14, 1947 — The first oil well out of sight of land was brought in by Kerr-McGee in the Gulf of Mexico about 45 miles south of Morgan City in the Ship Shoal Block 32 Field, marking the birth of the offshore oil and gas industry.