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Moosetooth Geological Consulting has been recognized as one of the Top Energy Consulting Providers by Energy Business Review. Moosetooth provide seismic interpretation services if the data is available or desired by the client. Seismic volumes enhance the clarity of the subsurface in several ways and are often an important element to the success of a project. Moosetooth generates synthetic seismograms to accurately tie seismic reflections to their proper geologic interval. The data is then interpreted with horizons and faults, which helps pinpoint potential hydrocarbon traps and guides the selection of future drilling locations. “Evaluating organic shale is like cooking a steak—if it’s ‘cooked’ to the right level, say medium-rare or medium, it hits the sweet spot for generating hydrocarbons in an unconventional petroleum system. If the source rock is ‘undercooked,’ it’s not yet ready to produce, which is valuable information for our clients to have early on. This way, they know exactly when and how to capitalize on their resources,” says Maurits Thayer, President. The article will also be featured in the forthcoming special print edition of Energy Consulting 2024. Read More: https://lnkd.in/gysEc-Kc #geoscienceservices #permianbasin #formationtops #structuralanalysis #geochemicalanalysis

The rock type is less important than the fundamental problem that rock is an insulator. Flow in fractures cools the fracture surfaces then leaves heat stranded in the blocks of rock between the fractures. This is a smaller problem in very heavily fractured, very hot rocks which are close to the surface, as is typical of hydrothermal geothermal plays. Wells that are drilled deep need to have long well lives to be economical. The alternative to Hot Dry Rock (HDR) plays such as FORGE and Fervo are pursuing is Hot Sedimentary Aqujfer (HSA) plays where fluid is flowed through the pore space so that heat can be more completely extracted because heat only needs to be conducted over the grain scale.

#ThermalThursdays This week we have seen major announcements coming from Fervo and FORGE, showing sustained flowrates from their respective enhanced geothermal wells. CEO of ResFrac, Mark McClure, had a follow up blog post discussing the importance of these results and the validation they bring to multistage, horizontal EGS well development. There’s an important point that flew under the radar that I need to highlight. As Mark suggested, the largest risk now to EGS is thermal degradation of the resource. It’s important to realize how serious this point could be. The heat in place is fundamentally the total heat that can be extracted from any given volume. How that heat comes out is a function of both the well design and what I would argue is more important, the resource and reservoir (i.e., the rock). Looking at the chart above (from Beardsmore and Cull, 2001), thermal conductivity (and other thermal properties) vary by rock type. That’s an obvious statement. Because thermal properties vary by rock type, the ability and rate at which heat will be extracted will vary, and this often then varies by play. This means the results outside Milford, UT, will look different than the results we would expect at Los Alamos and Fenton Hill if we were to restart that EGS with new drilling technology, or at Newberry Volcano, or in any major sedimentary basin. This will impact spacing, number of stages, well choke and/or pump rates – basically, the rock and the resource extraction will dictate reservoir management. These results emphasize ever more the need for high resolution subsurface understanding prior to drilling complete, full cost, production and injection wells. It’s a great time to be a geologist, and to a lesser extent, a reservoir engineer. #geothermal #oilgas #sustainability #energy #geologistjokes

Available next week on March 20,2024: Our assessment and re-evaluation of the McKittrick Oil Field Main Area. One of California's oldest oil fields - this assessment includes a review of over 2,000 wells, production data going back to 1915, and a new geological model - updating previous published work on the field. Includes maps of the major producing intervals, including the Olig Sand, Reef Ridge Sand, Stevens Sand, and the shallow Tulare zone, along with cross sections showing the structural geology of the field. all available curves, updated February 23, 2024. #drilling #naturalgas #oilproduction #energyindustry #petroleum #petroleumindustry #oilfield #petroleumengineering #reservoirengineering #oilandgascompanies #carbonstorage #carboncapture #hydrogen #hydrogeneconomy #oil #oilandgas #oilandgasindustry #California #SanJoaquin #kerncounty #oilandgasexploration Kern County Pacific Section AAPG New Orleans Geological Society Houston Geological Society DALLAS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY API - American Petroleum Institute Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Oklahoma City Geological Society Fort Worth Geological Society (FWGS) EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) San Joaquin Geological Society SJGS #energystrong Canadian Global Energy Forum Society of Petroleum Engineers International Society of Applied Geoscientists and Engineers, Inc. Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists - CSEG Ebresources.com California Resources Corporation Aera Energy LLC Chevron ExxonMobil Berry Oil Crimson Resource Management Corp American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) ConocoPhillips GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NEVADA Nevada Petroleum and Geothermal Society Trio Petroleum Corp (NYSE: TPET) Richard Chapman Mike Umbro Kurt Neher Kristy Whitaker, PhD Californians for Energy & Science

See how hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, releases petroleum or natural gas trapped in shale rock formations. The video is from the March 2013 iPad edition of National Geographic magazine. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a drilling method used to extract petroleum (oil) or natural gas from deep in the planet. In the fracking process, cracks in and below Earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting water, chemicals, and sand at high pressure. Some resources extracted through fracking are called “tight oil” or “tight gas,” because these pockets of fossil fuels are tightly trapped in hard shale rock formations. By accessing tight oil and tight gas, the sophisticated technologies used in fracking are rapidly expanding petroleum and natural gas production in the United States. This video explains the technology of fracking using the example of the Iverson oil well, which drills into the Bakken shale formation near the U.S. city of Williston, North Dakota. #Geology #Geologist #Engineering #Oil_gas #Clay_Minerals

Subsurface predictions: what to watch in #exploration and discovered resources in 2024 The hunt for advantage intensifies in 2024, and a subsurface divergence takes shape as high-impact wildcatting focuses on oil, while gas gains ground in discovered resource progression

California energy costs and implications for the rest of the USA. Today in substack.com Robert Bryce posted a revealing set of charts and discussion on California's energy costs and the possibility the rest of the nation may follow California. In short, it's an unsustainable pathway for the poor and middle class. If the USA adopts this pathway it will need to become affordable, if that's possible. https://lnkd.in/gZ-JSc7b #drilling #naturalgas #oilproduction #energyindustry #petroleum #petroleumindustry #oilfield #petroleumengineering #reservoirengineering #oilandgascompanies #oilandgas #oilandgasindustry #Californiaenergy #SanJoaquinbasin #kerncounty #oilandgasexploration #Kern #oil #renewableenergy #electricitycost Pacific Section AAPG New Orleans Geological Society Houston Geological Society Dallas Geological Society API - American Petroleum Institute Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Oklahoma City Geological Society Fort Worth Geological Society (FWGS) EAGE (European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers) San Joaquin Geological Society SJGS #energystrong Society of Petroleum Engineers International Society of Applied Geoscientists and Engineers, Inc. California Resources Corporation Aera Energy LLC Chevron ExxonMobil Berry Oil Crimson Resource Management Corp American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) ConocoPhillips Richard Chapman Mike Umbro Kurt Neher Kristy Whitaker, PhD Californians for Energy & Science

-  In the year 2023,Oil exploration assortment is continued to drive upward in terms of capital investment, drilling and seismic programme ,portfolio yet not hampered .The assortment sounds remain in place  as primary source of energy though significance of renewable source and net zero measure is instantaneously deliberating everywhere. Foresight -”oil never boils”.   -  Worldwide, A total of 27 high impact wells drilled received 24 Discoveries resulting 6.5bnbbls of oil and 46Tcf of gas in 24 Discoveries. Net resource increases 130 mmbbl of oil and a downgrade of 1.2 tcf of gas. Forecast: Oil demand to grow by 1.4 million b/d both in 2024 and 2025.Brent price to hover around USD 80-85/bbl. (data source -wildcat@westwoodenergy.com , Westwood Global Energy Group.   - Analysis of underneath topics together examined with Dr. Chirantan Bhagawati that arrayed to move the spotlight next level. “Bondage between Academia and Industry” “ Water Base Mud drilling -the need of hour”. Do we agree ? “ MFS do not necessarily corresponds to high gamma“- the debate “ Digital Palynology revolution -Robot for Palynological Application" “ Data Science -Review of application of AI in Petroleum operation" “ Estimation of net-to-gross ratio and net pay from  seismic amplitude variation with offset with Bayesian Inversion" “ Machine Learning Victory -Assessing occurrence and  saturation of methane hydrate in marine deposits- Offshore India" “ Intelligent seismic stratigraphic modeling using temporal convolutional network”   - None the less, the limited innovative assertion and public domain data becomes constraint to deliver clear pragmatic opinion in this repute. - Fellow readers are welcome for critique to move the position next level. #geoexpro.com volume 21, 2023, wildcat@westwoodenergy.com ,Chirantan Bhagowati, Saeed Bahaloo et.al ,Tschache et.al, Leebyn Chong et.al,Detao Wang et.al

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