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To: MrB

Exactly.

Also, oil fields are always located in porous rock (from what I read), allowing seepage up from below (since oil is lighter). Has any oil ever been discovered isolated in solid, non-porous rock?


20 posted on 09/11/2009 12:23:40 PM PDT by canuck_conservative (Obama - The "Big Owe")
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To: canuck_conservative

I can’t say that I know for sure, but generally speaking, due to the cost of exploration, you want to search in the highest probability areas.


25 posted on 09/11/2009 12:46:28 PM PDT by ActrFshr
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To: canuck_conservative
Has any oil ever been discovered isolated in solid, non-porous rock?

Very little unless it is fractured. Mostly in the Texas Panhandle and Australia but they have conventional reservoirs overlying the tombstone.

26 posted on 09/11/2009 12:47:08 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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