Innovations in drilling and transporting technology for fossil fuels are what make the necessary reserves possible. Some off shore rigs drill ocean floor that is one to two miles beneath the surface of the water. This would obviously not be possible without the ingenuity of modern man. Not only does new technology make drilling like this possible, but it also produces more fossil fuels out of every location by that might not otherwise be reachable. Pipeline innovations for transport are just as vital to the industry by making the transportation process more profitable and efficient.
A device known as the Smart Interrupter, designed for radio detection has been designed to monitor the effectiveness of cathodic pipeline protection. This interpreter is a solid state interrupter used by corrosion technicians. Cathodic protection is widely used to prevent corrosion around the globe, and this device makes maintaining and investigating this method much simpler. When the Smart Interrupter is utilized, the pipeline is completely undisturbed, keeping maintenance from interfering with transporting fuels.
There are many computing resources now used in the pipeline industry. Inventive software developments enhance visualization and manufacturing abilities. SCADA software from ICONICS recently developed flagship software for Manufacturing Intelligence compatible with the Microsoft Vista operating system. Because of this operating system compliance, Window's Visto will increase the security, productivity, and infrastructure of pipeline development substantially. There are a plethora of industrial automation benefits brought about by this software solution.
Advancements in coating technology continue to develop due to the need for construction efficiency as well as safety. A primerless coating has been developed by the Covalence Adhesives Corrosioin Protection Group. It is a cold-applied, primerless coating for corrosion protection of joints and fittings and is distinguished as a Polyken 4000 PCS coating. This coating also complies with environmental standards by not emitting VOCs.
The high demand for leak detection has produced an advanced detecting technology that singles out methane from other gases, thus preventing false alarms. The DP-IR leak detection technology, developed by Heath Consultants Inc., will improve the productivity and safety of walking or mobile pipeline surveys. It utilizes an infrared optical gas detection system and will replace the traditional flame ionized technology.
A-T Controls has created shut-off valves that have already been approved by the FERC. Their advanced design features a build-to-order application to protect fuel-burning equipment, a spring-return automated ball valve that is completely explosion-proof, a superior valve seating, and a patented stem seal system. These shut-off valves are extremely reliable and compact, saving space and lives.
These are only a few of the recent developments in technology that companies like Western Pipeline Corporation are using and investigating to continue to improve the business of fuel transportation.
About the Author: Bob Jent is the CEO of Western Pipeline Corporation. Western Pipeline Corporation is a successful, private independent producer of oil and natural gas.
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Monday, July 9, 2007
Drilling in the Illinois Basin
Illinois has become an increasing popular place for oil and natural gas drilling ventures. The depression of the basin covers almost 60K square miles in the Midwestern United States, and contains over 100K cubic miles of sedimentary rock, ranging in age from Cambrian to Permian. Marine carbonates are most common, along with siltstone, shale, and sandstone. The Illinois basin was created by a rift system that failed at the same time as a breakup of the "Supercontinent," or Pangea. This occurred sometime in the early Cambrian period, and the basin later continued to change into a cratonic embayment in the late Cambrian period. In the Carboniferous period of the late Cretaceous, a massive uplift known as the Pascola arch caused a structural enclosure to the basin.
Since the discovery of the Illinois Basin in 1886, almost 4 billion barrels of oil have been piped out as well as four trillion cubic feet of dissolved natural gas material in the Paleozoic rock. Most of the hydrocarbons have been produced from the Pennsylvanian and Mississippian sandstone layers. However, the Devonian, Ordovician, and Silurian Rocks have also been quite productive. There are an abundance of fossil fuels still located in the Illinois basin, with the main obstacle being retrieving it and transporting it. As a result Western Pipeline Corporation and other companies are able to turn sizable profits by providing the construction and ingenuity necessary. Most of the petroleum coming from the basin comes from anticlinal structures with trapping components that are stratigraphic. Along with diagenetic porosity pinch-outs, stratigraphic-fault traps are excellent formations for petroleum production.
There is actually the potential for increased reserves in the Illinois basin in the coming future with several strategies. Secondary and tertiary methods can recover immobile oil, which is estimated to be more than 4 billion barrels, and there is still an abundance of further exploration needed to find more subtle traps. There also continues to be an abundance of production in the Cambro-Ordovician section of rock, but deep drilling is required in this virtually unmapped territory. Bypassed mobile oil is estimated to be in excess of a billion barrels and can be reached through strategic infill drilling.
There is still an abundance of possible oil and natural gas reserves available in the rich region of the Illinois Basin, and the most valuable part of this fact is the location of the Basin. Because it is centrally located within the US borders, transportation costs are extremely low, providing for more profit margins. As oil becomes higher in demand, the Illinois Basin will continue to grow in profitability with and abundance of over 5 billion currently accessible barrels of oil, and future technologies will create even more production options.
About the Author: Bob Jent is the CEO of Western Pipeline Corporation. Western Pipeline Corp is a successful, private independent producer of oil and natural gas.
Since the discovery of the Illinois Basin in 1886, almost 4 billion barrels of oil have been piped out as well as four trillion cubic feet of dissolved natural gas material in the Paleozoic rock. Most of the hydrocarbons have been produced from the Pennsylvanian and Mississippian sandstone layers. However, the Devonian, Ordovician, and Silurian Rocks have also been quite productive. There are an abundance of fossil fuels still located in the Illinois basin, with the main obstacle being retrieving it and transporting it. As a result Western Pipeline Corporation and other companies are able to turn sizable profits by providing the construction and ingenuity necessary. Most of the petroleum coming from the basin comes from anticlinal structures with trapping components that are stratigraphic. Along with diagenetic porosity pinch-outs, stratigraphic-fault traps are excellent formations for petroleum production.
There is actually the potential for increased reserves in the Illinois basin in the coming future with several strategies. Secondary and tertiary methods can recover immobile oil, which is estimated to be more than 4 billion barrels, and there is still an abundance of further exploration needed to find more subtle traps. There also continues to be an abundance of production in the Cambro-Ordovician section of rock, but deep drilling is required in this virtually unmapped territory. Bypassed mobile oil is estimated to be in excess of a billion barrels and can be reached through strategic infill drilling.
There is still an abundance of possible oil and natural gas reserves available in the rich region of the Illinois Basin, and the most valuable part of this fact is the location of the Basin. Because it is centrally located within the US borders, transportation costs are extremely low, providing for more profit margins. As oil becomes higher in demand, the Illinois Basin will continue to grow in profitability with and abundance of over 5 billion currently accessible barrels of oil, and future technologies will create even more production options.
About the Author: Bob Jent is the CEO of Western Pipeline Corporation. Western Pipeline Corp is a successful, private independent producer of oil and natural gas.
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