<DrumBeat: July 10, 2006 The Oil Drum Trouble South of the Border -- Mexico's Oil Production>

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Leanan on July 10, 2006 - 12:11pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
And yes, once again, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette comes through.

It's the WSJ story by Bhushan Bahree.  For free.  :-)

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Dave Cohen on July 10, 2006 - 12:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Hey, Leanan, are you in Pittsburgh? If you are, send me an email, OK? I'm living in Friendship just this side of Shadyside.
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Leanan on July 10, 2006 - 12:45pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
No, I'm not in Pittsburgh (though I visited a friend there in May).  I'm just a news junkie.  I noticed a long time ago, via Google, that articles that were behind the paywall at the Wall St. Journal site are often available for free at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Web site.

Another tip: you can get a free 14-day trial of the NY Times TimesSelect service.  Download up to 100 TimesSelect articles for free, then cancel before the two weeks are up so you don't get charged.  (I'm a cheap news junkie.  ;-)

Also, a lot of articles that are subscriber-only if you go in a newspaper's front door are free if you go in via Google News.  Google must have some kind of deal worked out.

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jimvj on July 10, 2006 - 3:20pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Steam injection can recover 80+ percent of a field's oil, per the WSJ article. The obvious questions are:

  1. What extraction rates are achievable (as a function of amounts of steam injected, in this case)?

  2. What is the quality of the oil recovered? and relatedly,

  3. What is the EROEI of the process?

Peak oil, in general, is mostly about these questions.

I believe Chevron has its own NG pipelines dedicated to bringing NG from the northern Rockies area for their Bakersfield operations.  In a sense, at Bakersfield, Chevron runs a GTL (or GT Heavy Liquids) operation.

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