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ericy on January 18, 2006 - 6:13pm

How could you possibly recover 100%? Dig shafts into Ghawar and mine the stuff?

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JD on January 18, 2006 - 10:44pm

Mike Lynch floated that idea once. Oil mines were common in the early days of oil. That was Colonel Drake's original plan too. He was going to mine the oil, but then he decided to drill for it instead.
http://www.sjgs.com/history.html

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Heading Out on January 19, 2006 - 2:51pm

There was a thought to do this with some of the shallow oil sands around Bakersfield. The problem comes from the volatiles that would escape and have a quite negative environmental impact.

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