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Originally Posted by Clydesdale
None of you need to worry.

We have natural gas and China. Problems solved.


You may be right. I read that Alaska pump enough N.G. back into the round to supply the whole west coast . They didn't at the time cause it was so expensive to move it.


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That gas is used to maintain reservoir pressure, lift oil (and water), and wash the oil out of the rock itself. Selling it will increase the difficulties and cost of getting the rest of the oil out.


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The fields have decades more life left in them albeit at reduced production rates. Leaving the gas to maximize oil output and looking at bring the gas to market in 10-20 years seems like the better option.

The economics of a gas line today just don't pencil out. Converting the gas to NGL and shipping down TAPS would seem like a potentially better option but I haven't heard any numbers on whether or not such an option is fiscally viable.

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Originally Posted by 458 Lott
The fields have decades more life left in them albeit at reduced production rates. Leaving the gas to maximize oil output and looking at bring the gas to market in 10-20 years seems like the better option.

The economics of a gas line today just don't pencil out. Converting the gas to NGL and shipping down TAPS would seem like a potentially better option but I haven't heard any numbers on whether or not such an option is fiscally viable.


Hard to get it small enough to ship reasonably without getting it to liquid phase which requires too much pressurse these days.


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Originally Posted by 458 Lott
The fields have decades more life left in them albeit at reduced production rates. Leaving the gas to maximize oil output and looking at bring the gas to market in 10-20 years seems like the better option.

The economics of a gas line today just don't pencil out. Converting the gas to NGL and shipping down TAPS would seem like a potentially better option but I haven't heard any numbers on whether or not such an option is fiscally viable.

It probably pencils out if one is running for re-election as guv.


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Originally Posted by Sitka deer
That gas is used to maintain reservoir pressure, lift oil (and water), and wash the oil out of the rock itself. Selling it will increase the difficulties and cost of getting the rest of the oil out.

I learned something today. Do they keep some NG for heat or anything close by?


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Originally Posted by Sitka deer
That gas is used to maintain reservoir pressure, lift oil (and water), and wash the oil out of the rock itself. Selling it will increase the difficulties and cost of getting the rest of the oil out.

I learned something today. Do they keep some NG for heat or anything close by?



They run their gas turbine power plants with some of it. The fuel is (practically) free...........


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Originally Posted by ihookem
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That gas is used to maintain reservoir pressure, lift oil (and water), and wash the oil out of the rock itself. Selling it will increase the difficulties and cost of getting the rest of the oil out.

I learned something today. Do they keep some NG for heat or anything close by?


Quite a bit is burned to keep flares burning... in case of emergencies and plant upsets. They need it burning so it ignites immediately when dumped to the pit.

Heat is easy to come by in the big plants as they are bringing in lots of product at high temperatures and especially the gas. They can pump a lot more cool gas down the injection wells than hot gas.


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