Articles of Interest on Recent Oil & Gas Developments

Stopping the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
by J. Burton LeBlanc of OilGasTech, July 2010

We have submitted a proposal to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill authorities that they consider stopping the oil flow by methods similar to nature’s method of stemming uncontrolled oil flow.  This would involve dumping limestone, solid and minute particles atop the well and perhaps salvaging a pipe interconnection for controlled flow, simulating how high pressured oil is contained underground, or by devising some heavy barrier to the flow of oil.

In any event, the well engineers who mastered blowouts in Louisiana should be consulted.  The Marathon-J. Burton LeBlanc well in East Baton Rouge Parish blew out at 15,000 feet.  A television crew happened to be present and took pictures of the crew scampering off the rig.  The well was capped and drilling resumed to below 20,000 feet. 

Boone Pickens drilled the Mesa-Barton well in Pointe Coupee Parish.  It blew out but was brought under control.   I talked at length with the engineer of the well.  He was very knowledgeable on the subject and if he is around he would be a good person to consult with.

Chevron had several wells blowout in Pointe Coupee and would be a good company to consult with.

There will be another result from the oil spill that has been overlooked.  It should certainly result in increased drilling on the dry land of South Louisiana.   The onus of drilling in the water will be avoided.  Meanwhile the drilling in the Gulf has opened up new vistas geologically on onshore land to the north.

The wealth of new sands encountered in the Gulf will enhance drilling on many of the bypassed prospects on the land north of the Gulf.

A few prescient geologists have long felt that the potential of many sands, particularly the deeper sands on onshore Louisiana have been overlooked.

OilGasTech has accumulated data and interpretations from geological experts that delineate many of the prime prospects.