To borrow a line from Forrest Gump, ?An Oil/Gas field is like a box of chocolates, ya never know what you?re going to get?. In general, a young oil field will have some associated pressurization due to vapors or natural gas. Precipitate is a liquid hydro carbon that can be found in gas fields and it is highly undesirable to grab a pocket of that stuff, yikes. Oil and natural gas can be in the same dome and test wells are used to establish who is what and how deep. And sometimes there is no natural well head pressure at all and many of the off shore production rigs use salt water injection to pressurize the dome. Some other land based production rigs use steam injection where the crude is too viscous to pump out and this is found a lot in Texas. Canada has a unique situation where their gas fields yield lots of sour gas and special sulphur stripping processes are needed. Looking down on the Alberta fields from 40K ft., one sees huge, long, yellow mountain-like rows of stripped sulphur. Further north in Ft. Mc Murray, Alberta, there is the tar sands project where crude is extracted from sand via a coaker process. There massive mountains of pure white sand can be seen and this is the sand once the crude has been extracted.
Then in the contemporary Vietnam oil fields (Moi Hung), we find yet another manifestation. Bogus/dry labbed Soviet well logs and siesmo charts were used to sell drilling concessions to the unwary. Oh my, $ millions changed hands before the Hanoi and Saigon Oil Ministry Boss Hogs got caught with their greedy dick skinners in the western pocket and all that is still unresolved, except now the Boss Hogs live in the lap of luxury, eh. Power to the people, right. Well, not a dime of that money went to ?the people?, bet on that. SOSDD.
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