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Seismic oil discovery: 1. Signal emitted by vibrator truck 2. Reflected waves received by geophones 3. Data transmitted to laboratory truck JERICAN | 2006/11/12 In 1924, the discovery of an oil field beneath the Nash salt dome in Brazoria County, Texas, was the first to be based on single-fold seismic data. Before that, oilfield exploration […]

Oil recovery by CO2 injection JERICAN | 2006/10/29 It is often assumed that most of the oil can be pumped and recovered from an oil pool. Unfortunately this is rarely possible even with the use of horizontal wells. Oil wells drilled in the Southern United States have an initial recovery rate of 20 percent. Enhanced […]

Chinese used bamboos for oil pipelines. JERICAN | 2006/10/28 That the Chinese used oil from natural seeps as fuel to boil salt brine into salt. Initially bamboo was pounded vertically into oil containing seeps and removed by suction. With time this led to drilling for oil, as they needed to penetrate deeper and deeper into […]