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TrueKaiser on July 23, 2006 - 2:43pm

so to put it simply your saying that these enhanced recovery techniques are like cutting a bigger hole in a bottle of soda, you can get more out now but at the cost of having less for later? this then has a effect on the whole picture by making the peak closer and higher while giving us a much steeper decline after words?
Makes sense to me, we have had a very long history of short-changing the future for short term gain..

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eric blair on July 24, 2006 - 11:09am

If you want to stick to soda bottle:

You have a bottle of soda. You can only invest a limited amount of movement into the bottle to empty it.

Do you:

Shake it hard, then open it and capture the gusher
Open it and slowly tilt it sideways

pushing a field too hard means you will strand hydrocarbons. Somewhere you have to balance the cost of running the extraction equipment VS the resulting gain from the hydrocarbon.

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