Chapter 814： Shale oil recoverable reserves

The departure of the French will seriously affect the morale of the army! The next one is probably Spain! Originally, Spain planned to watch the good show of the United Kingdom, and Spain was still thinking about how to regain Gibraltar! If it wasn't for the Americans' coercion and inducements, Spain would not have sent warships to follow the formation. And now, the Argentine Navy has a big killer, and the Spaniards will definitely leave the formation!

Next, the navies of other countries will definitely leave, and finally, it will become the formation of the US Navy and the British Navy! In this way, the original plan was in vain!

The other purpose of forming a combined fleet this time is of course to use this name to continue to rule the whole of Europe and let Western Europe know that the United States is still the boss! Now, the authority of the boss is also decreasing! The disobedience of the French has a bad effect, and there will be others who are disobedient. In the end, the whole of Western Europe will try to get rid of the United States!

No, force must be used! However, if more aircraft carrier battle groups are really dispatched, the increased military expenditure is also an astronomical amount! Especially now, the US economy is also facing a serious crisis.

With the breakthrough of the Soviet Union in the Middle East world, the US dollar oil system has come to nothing. It is foreseeable that with the continuous return of US dollars to the United States, the over-issued currency in the United States over the years will make the US economy even worse! And once the momentum of the dollar's depreciation starts, it will get worse and worse! The United States is now almost entirely supported by oil exports, and this huge war will make the United States even more unable to make ends meet.

Who would have thought that the United States would actually be reduced to such a level that because it has no money, it does not dare to fight! However, even if it is a swollen face and a fat man, this war must be completed. This is the mission of the United States!

Thinking of this, Reagan asked Energy Secretary James Edwards: "James, has our shale oil production increased further? Our country's economy now depends on our energy industry!"

Reagan's question is naturally to see the progress of the oil industry. As long as you continue to invest, you can extract more shale oil! Thanks to shale oil, the U.S. economy has been re-transformed and rejuvenated!

Who knows, when he heard his words, James' face showed a kind of bewilderment. James' mouth moved a few times, but he never said a word.

Reagan was stunned for a moment: "James, what is it, you just say it directly!"

"We, the Energy Information Administration, are now reassessing our Monterey shale oil base, and it's possible that our previous forecasts were inaccurate and we may significantly downgrade Monterey's recoverable shale oil reserves," James said. .

Downgrade reserves? Hearing this, Reagan was stunned for a moment. Now, the US economy is recovering again, and it is all counting on shale oil! Now, is it actually going to cut shale oil production?

"Why?" Reagan asked.

"Several of our oil wells, which were drilled in the early stage, were expected to have a production life of four years, but now, it has only been less than a year, and suddenly shale oil cannot be produced. Now, we are also sending people to investigate. Maybe, it was just a false alarm," James continued.

The reserves of shale oil and the recoverable amount are not the same. If the cost of mining is too high, or if there are too many impurities extracted, it will not have mining value.

This news was also received by James yesterday afternoon. After he received the news, he immediately sent experts to investigate, hoping it was just a false alarm!

Texas, Monterey Shale Oil Base.

This is the main shale oil production base in the United States. Since the oil production in the Middle East has been continuously reduced and prices have gradually increased, the United States has increased its domestic oil exploration efforts. Among them, the large-scale exploration of shale oil is a technological breakthrough. , After the technology matures, the United States has become an oil exporter. Moreover, the original oil reserves of the United States have also begun to be re-exploited, and the oil production of the United States has gradually increased. In addition to supplying domestic use, it is also continuously exporting to Europe.

Relying on high oil prices, the production of shale oil is very profitable. It is precisely because the production of shale oil is related to the energy security of the United States that it has received high support from the US government. The United States will not stop shale oil extraction either.

"Baker, what's going on?" Just when the White House was still having a headache over the war in the South Atlantic, American oil expert John Stubb, with a large team of technicians, hurried to Monterey Shale Oil base.

Here, there are oil wells everywhere. It is precisely because the shale oil here is exploited in large quantities that the United States continues to have stable energy sources after losing the Middle East. Now, the oil wells here are suddenly out of order, which makes them very concerned.

"Our oil wells were the first to be mined. However, according to expectations, it can still produce at least three years. However, from the past few days, the shale oil mined began to decrease sharply. So far, almost It's going to become a dry well," said Baker, the person in charge.

An oil well is divided into four life cycles, growth period, growth period, maturity period and recession period. Last year, here used the water fracturing method to exploit shale oil, and it has entered the mature period, and the output It is very stable. According to the previous exploration, the water fracturing method is continuously used to develop to the lower layer, and a steady stream of shale oil can be extracted.

Now, oil wells that are entering the mature stage have suddenly become dry wells!

This is a big deal for America! As a petroleum expert, John immediately led his technicians to start a new round of exploration.

What happened, as long as you drill down with the drill pipe, you can detect what happened below!

After the water-fracture method was used, the ground had become very soft, and the drilling equipment soon went deep, and it took a few hours to drill under the stratum that had been mined.

The data was constantly being aggregated, and after a busy day, John finally came to an early conclusion.

The Monterey Shale, located in the Southern California Active Zone, has too many fractures and debris in the geological structure, and after the shale oil in the upper layer was extracted, when the wastewater was backfilled, it caused a slight earthquake, and as a result, the The lower layer of the oil well has caused the distortion and splitting of the larger rock layer, so the shale oil below can no longer be mined!

A well with four years of mature shale oil, now less than a year old! If such a situation exists in large numbers, the recoverable reserves of the shale oil base in Monterey will be greatly reduced!

In the previous forecast, there were 13.7 billion barrels of recoverable reserves of shale oil here. Now it seems that with the existing technology, it is not bad to be able to extract 700 million barrels!

And so far, Monterey's shale oil reserves account for 64 percent of the total U.S. reserves! If the reserves here are greatly reduced, the myth of shale oil may be shattered!