oiliest place on earth?12 Nov 2018 11:58
Unsure sounds a bit like Azerbaijan :-)
Three-quarters of the available oil was believed to be southeast of the anticline in a zone riddled with complexfaults, folds and subterranean dead ends that split the oil-bearing layers into two dozen deposits, or "traps." Mostseemed small and difficult to tap, but two or three traps appeared to be Saudi-sized -- big enough to hold billionsof barrels of petroleum, though there is no direct proof that they contain any. The KIC-1 well is said to have beendrilled into one of these.
Ehm believes the refuge is an oily place. He's seen it seep to the surface in small, black pools. "It could producefor 25 years," he predicts. "But I'm also a scientist. If it isn't there, you plug the wells and move on." By now,Ehm believed he would have earned his fortune selling the survey's details like a treasure map.