anyone got any ideas about the block trades that went through today?

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Come on now Cynic - do feel so bitter - you will not appear impressive ifSEY come good. Remember Dana on a nearby block are primarily a gas exploration company, so plenty of sweet gas is not so bad.
I know a lot of MoneyAM bloggers will appreciate that, ie. " a lot of gas ".

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The removal of sulphur from gas and oil is very standard practice in the oil industry.
Are you joking or what ?

Also 5% is a low concentration - have you been in the oil indeustry ?

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Hi mnamreh - I understand that the H2S is generally left in the oil at the well head and shipped with all the other crap to the refinery. Otherwise it would require quite a lot of equipment at the well head. When the crude oil is shipped by tanker their is the possibility that the H2S will react with the iron of the ship hold and iron pyrites could form. If the iron pyrites meets oxygen from the air, it could ignite, therefore modern ships pump an inert gas ( usually nitrogen ) in the hold on top of the crude oil.

I am not an expert on this part of the oil and gas industry,perhaps many other know better, but I have a little knowledge of it, which is probably dangerous.

Good luck with your dealings = I have masses of SEY and a sore head at the moment.

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mnamreh - Thank you friend.

to digress - CO2 is a different matter altogether and is only recently in the headlines due to it being vented to atmosphere and thus adding to greenhouse gases ..... i can tell you quite a lot more on that subject if you/anyone is interested

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it's the same field ...... CO2 in oil refining is now being heavily targetted so that they "capture" the CO2 and then bury it in old mine shafts and similar ..... it is also being used at the wellhead to increase pressure in the reservoir and thus recover a larger % of the reserves ..... being totally cynical (moi???), i question the willingness of the oil producers - oh alright, the oil producing countries - to spend the money on this expensive technology, from which they see little return ..... for sure there will be a lot of noise about X's "green credentials" and how they are (willing to) spend(ing) billions (well a few 000 anyway!) to clean up their act etc.

i'm going to a specialist conference next week and there may be (yet another!) presentation on the subject, so I'll try to stay awake for it if there is ..... when i raised the Q last time about who or what countries might be willing to expend all this money for no return, it all seemed to go rather quiet

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no idea about carbon trading .... always looks very suspect to me - i.e. a tool for making money rather than reducing emissions and similar

CO2 is almost never transported in solid (dry ice) form ..... indeed, the prime use of CO2 is in food production - e.g. the bubbles in your coca cola or lager - and i cannot believe that CO2 produced in oil refineries can be made remotely suitable for that.

the usual way to move CO2 is either compressed and put in cylinders - only efficient for small quantities - or chilled right down under pressure until it becomes liquid ..... in this form, it is obviously much less bulky than as a gas and is moved in very specialised road barrels or similar ..... to keep the CO2 as liquid means that it has to be moved in a very sophisticated high pressure "thermos flask" - it's actually a double-skinned stainless steel barrel (+/-20/30k litres) with a vacuum between the skins .... in that format it will hold as liquid for about 90 days

perhaps i should have added that if the pressure is allowed to fall, the liquid will become gas once more

Chairman Alastair Beardsall said, 'Sterling is focused on successfully completing the current operations in a safe and reliable manner. Once this is done, well operations will continue to evaluate the potential of the Jurassic reservoir targets.'

The well has been drilled to a depth of 3,396m, approaching the depth at which it plans to run casing before drilling into the targets.

While drilling at this depth, the well encountered a zone of high formation pressure with the result that hydrocarbon gas, containing approximately 0.5% hydrogen sulphide, entered the well and pressure was observed at the surface.

While conducting operations to remove the gas from the well and eliminate the surface pressure, the drill pipe parted at a depth of about 850m.

The company plans to circulate out any further influx of gas from the well bore, eliminate the surface pressure, and retrieve the drill pipe and bottom hole drilling assembly from the well.

It said these operations were challenging and may require additional equipment to be mobilised to the well site.

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i'm afraid i'm not a chemist or even an engineer or, God forbid, an accountant ..... i'm just a scallywag who happens to have a small amount of knowledge in even fewer fields

i have no idea what happens if you mix NAOH (caustic soda guys) with CO2, but clearly you do ..... however, i don't think that chilling and pressurising CO2 to liquid form can be THAT expensive, for otherwise there would not be a market

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but then i am very very old .... and if i was older still, perhaps i would be classified as a cad and a bounder, sir!

On a slightly related subject:

HELL EXPLAINED BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT

The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term.



The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, is why we now have the pleasure
of enjoying it as well:


Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant?

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over?

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over! The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God.'



THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+

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