2020s Prudhoe gas sales could be well timedAs North Slope field ages, gas reinjection will be losing part of oomph some 50 years after Prudhoe oil production began in 1977 Bill White Researcher/writer for the Office of the Federal Coordinator
Why pressure matters
It’s wrong to picture oil in a reservoir as a vast underground lake waiting to be siphoned dry.
Rather, oil and gas lie in tiny pores of certain kinds of porous rock, such as sandstone and conglomerate at Prudhoe. And they move to wells via minute connected pathways in the rock,....
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Falling pressure Old idea, new life Target: relict oil The cost of gas sales
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