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The reason they use N2 is A) it's non-flamable B) it's easily/ cheaply extracted from air by filtering out O2 and CO2 using a mobile unit. HTH

The reason they use N2 is A) it's non-flamable B) it's easily/ cheaply extracted from air by filtering out O2 and CO2 using a mobile unit. HTH

Gadget, are you for real? Would you believe what a guy that ran naked through the streets tells you? That a floating body displaces its own weight - lunacy. BTW air is 80% nitrogen so would your nitrogen float above or below air?

I guess that running a high velocity tube down the main bore further insulates the rising fluids as they pass through the permafrost too - even more reasons that it is a good idea.

I meant to add "what was once thick can become slick" - when simmered at 130c for 8 months. Viva Fairy Liquid..

Garrym, "early fracc fluid was thicker as Lemajor compared it to wallpaper paste. Our fracc fluid is a slickwater design and contains minimal chemicals, it has a friction reducer to allow it into and out of our shale." The two are not mutually exclusive, lookup "polyacrylamide" - here's one I pasted earlier (see what I did there?) : ...In dilute aqueous solution, such as is commonly used for Enhanced Oil Recovery applications, polyacrylamide polymers are susceptible to chemical, thermal, and mechanical degradation. Chemical degradation occurs when the labile amide moiety hydrolyzes at elevated temperature or pH, resulting in the evolution of ammonia and a remaining carboxyl group. Thus, the degree of anionicity of the molecule increases. Thermal degradation of the vinyl backbone can occur through several possible radical mechanisms, including the autooxidation of small amounts of iron and reactions between oxygen and residual impurities from polymerization at elevated temperature. Mechanical degradation can also be an issue at the high shear rates experienced in the near-wellbore region..... Do not shoot the messenger, I did not invent those longwords - I always though anionicity was to do with pickling shallots.

The pressure at the bottom of the well (BHP) is 8000psi which is sqeezing the 'oil-gas' preventing it escaping the shale (or at least hindering its escape). Removing the FF in the pipe will ease the pressure in the same way as taking the lid off a bottle of pop - whoosh!

There are different tyoes of artificial lift. Simply pumping out the oil using a nodding donkey is one, but that is not our need. Our problem is the weight of FF in the vertical pipe. It is flowing out naturally - we gad over 400 barrels of this come out in the first 2 days but by bubbling Nitrogen through a tube it will increase the flow of FF (maybe double it) and so halve the tine it takes to get to get the oil flowing. Once we deplete the water volume in the well we will get the oil coming up the pipe and because oil is lighter than water the weight of it in the vertical pipe will be less and the flow rate will increase. At that point we will no longer need to assist the flow rate using nitrogen bubbles. Once we have unassisted oil flow, we can measure the natural flow rate which will determine the commercial value of this vast resource.

True, will it be announced at 8% or 80%. If 8% we could be just days away.

How many days away we are depends on 2 things: A) How fast can we take the FF out of the hole, and B) How much will we take out before oil flows. Based on pure wishfull thinking I think we could see oil between 4-10 days

Cjml, don't forget DW is 8 hours ahead of us and Erik in Alaska is about the same behind.

garrym79, " Icewine has the ingredients to make a commercial shale play / execute a farm-out" Not only Underlined, but Bigger Font and Bold - not so easy to miss, especially when pointed out.

Neverlearn, not that I think you're a deramper but "we hit 4p just before they opended the tap and got a trickle of water" - I think you left out the bit that said "after extracting 8,000 barrels of FF. Easily done.

After the initial surge, nice to knoiw that the well is flowing naturally at 160 bbl/day. PB was sure it would flow unaided and glad he got another tick on his scorecard. Once the N2 lifting gear is connected the ff flowrate will double and so will the sp. Not sure why the drop, probably a mixture of panic, impatience, stop loss errors and tree shaking. I guess we'll be all square by the weekend as more of the herd arrive.

The human 6raine is 4maz1n9, 1t can 4UT0C0RR3CT words without it's host even being aware, making sense out of gibberish - no wonder proof reading is prone to error..OK crumble you take the biscuit and get the job. off now, catch up later.

Sorry then, no job for either of you - there was more than one error - you should both have known better.

Crumble, depends, GarryM spotted an error in my reply - did you?

Did you miss the other one? see what I mean!

Crumble, apart from "internal proof readers" the other "named companies" on the RNS will get a proof copy too: Hartleys Ltd, and Cenkos Securities so I guess 10-12 people with advance copies is probably the right order of magnitude. I remember a couple of years ago an RNS was obviously a cut'n paste job, but although the day and month were correct someone forgot to change the year from 2015 to 2016 (I think, not going to look it up!). It was so obvious - done same thing myself on reports. Most people would not even look at the year anyway - but the error which all the proof readers missed and 90% of the BB readers too, got transformed from a molehill into a mountain by trolls and other plonkers with time on their hands. I have been know to throw in the oddd typo myself,

We know the target date was 11th, and we know that DW is conservative with his targets - so I'm sure the well is flowing (unless any mishaps -but then if major, he'd have told us). Next RNS will not just say "we did what we said" that would be pointless. More likely it will say, we started on the Xth, natural flow was Ybbl/day but on day2/3 we used N2 and the flow improved to Zbbl/day. We should have evidence of HC's over the next 7-10 days if thing work out as predicted. It is a fairly predictable format but will show steady progress being made. If it also stated that we have traces of gold, diamonds and lithium granules the sp would rocket, but I suspect a more modest rise is likely (though tempered by some top-slicing until we get near 4p ). Don't ask me to justify the 4p target - just based on a blend of previous highest and sentiment.