There is Dynamic Replenishment of Hydrocarbon Reservoirs!
H. Roice Nelson, Jr.
Dynamic Resources Corporation
http://dynamic.walden3d.com

NASA's satellite image of the earth at night nicely shows the distribution of human energy use across the Earth.

The fact most of this energy has and will continue to come from hydrocarbons is shown by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) data.

The hydrocarbon cycle highlights most known hydrocarbon sources are from biotic material cooked in the subsurface.

Richard Nehring's database of Significant Oil & Gas Fields of N. A. gives hope the collapse of hydrocarbon availability is a ways out.

The Global Basin Research Network (GBRN) research at Cornell, Columbia's LDEO, LSU, Woods Hole, and others demonstrates dynamic replenishment of the Eugene Island 330 field offshore Louisiana from a deeper source not accessible by current technology.

A significant fluid pulse up the “Red Fault” in the mid 1980's demonstrated dynamic replenishment from deeper sources is occurring.

Seal, producing zone, temperature, and other maps offshore Texas can be used to predict likely locations of these refilling events.

Looking at the size of oil fields in map view shows 5 groups of production, and rotating this data in 3-D shows big fields are deeper.

Looking at the size of fields in pressure-temperature space shows big fields are over pressured and hotter, feeding shallower fields.

As gas migrates up, it forms vapor lock seals, which become over-pressured at multiple levels from continually migrating gas.

These geopressure pods are found onshore and offshore in the Gulf Coast, and are potentially a replenishing hydrocarbon source.

The large fields tend to lie along the increasing pressure with depth curve in at least one onshore Texas County. This seems general.

At the mega scale this same dynamic replenishment process appears to be occurring with gas hydrates. These deposits dwarf known hydrocarbon fields. Gas Hydrate locatoins are shown in the background map (white) to be close to the known volcanoes (red) of the world. These volcanoes have cooked sediments, and they might also enable migration of abiotic hydrocarbons from the mantle.

The larger colored squares simply show where the author has worked geotechnical projects around the world as shown in the index.

2007-10-30T17:01:27