Energy and Humanity

Map Key

Volcanoes / IG3 cell

Gas Hydrates / IG3 cell

HRN Spatial Resume:

- 1 project / IG2 cell

- 2 projects / IG2 cell

- 3 projects / IG2 cell

- 4 projects / IG2 cell

- 5 projects / IG2 cell

- 6 projects / IG2 cell

Offshore

Texas

Oil & Gas

Fields

Big Fields

Are Deep

Big Fields

Are Over-

pressured

Oil & Gas

Moves Up

Temperature

& Pressure

Some Oil & Gas Fields

Dynamically Replenish

Replenishment

Ties to

Seal

& Source

Shallow

Producing

Zones

Deeper

Producing

Zones

Temperature

Increases Above

Geopressure

Zones

Vapor Lock Theory

Geopressure

Seals

EI-330 Field

Fluid Flow Model

There is Dynamic Replenishment of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs!

Key questions: What is the rate of replenishment? How do we tap streams instead of ponds?

H. Roice Nelson, Jr.

Most production data is from Nehring Associates

Annual Energy Outlook 2006 with Projections to 2030 DOE/EIA-0383(2006) February 2006

Oil & Gas Remain as Primary Energy Sources

Slide 1

H. Roice Nelson, Jr.

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