1997 US Oil production by state

[Littlearmies]

There is an excellent Challenge Mag mini module called Pennsylvania Crude which is about private salvage groups opening up old, capped well heads and pumping as much crude as their tanker trucks can carry. The mini module contains some basic guidelines about how it is done and how much crude can be pumped from an old well head in a given amount of time.

I'm sure we have spoken about this before and I recall digging up some press about it:

http://www.observer-reporter.com/OR/Story/06-15-Old-Wells

http://www.mindfully.org/Energy/2008/Oil-Prospectors-PA19feb08.htm

I remember being quite pleased about "small oil" as opposed to the Seven Sisters. It also strikes me as being very T2K! I think it came up while talking about refining capacity post T2K - I think I made the point that I couldn't see even the smallest modern oil refinery being brought back online (even if you could find the parts and staff to bring it back up to spec) because they are so huge that simply "charging" the system with crude would be beyond the capacity of T2K without huge investment across the board (the smallest US refinery is at Bradford, Pa - conveniently close to the location of "pennsylvania Crude" with 10,000 bbl per day capacity).

[kato13]

Kansas Oil Production

While my system is chugging away on determining the LAT/LONG location for Kansas oilfields I thought I would post some information which surprised me.

There are over 50,000 wells in over 5,000 productive fields in Kansas. Admittedly quite a few of these are stripper wells (producing less than 500 barrels per year), but once again the sheer numbers would almost guarantee that some would be operating in T2k.

Great Information found here.

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/PRS/petro/interactive.html