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Kevin Robert Dean qualiall_2 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 15 22:28:22 PDT 2002


Oil Fields' Free Refill Seepage from the depths in some reservoirs hints at greater resources than expected By Robert Cooke Staff Writer

April 16, 2002

DEEP UNDERWATER, and deeper underground, scientists see surprising hints that gas and oil deposits can be replenished, filling up again, sometimes rapidly.

Although it sounds too good to be true, increasing evidence from the Gulf of Mexico suggests that some old oil fields are being refilled by petroleum surging up from deep below, scientists report. That may mean that current estimates of oil and gas abundance are far too low.

Recent measurements in a major oil field show "that the fluids were changing over time; that very light oil and gas were being injected from below, even as the producing [oil pumping] was going on,” said chemical oceanographer Mahlon "Chuck” Kennicutt. "They are refilling as we speak. But whether this is a worldwide phenomenon, we don't know.” Full Story: <http://www.newsday.com/features/ny-feat-hcov0416.story>

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