Comments on: Florida Could Allow Oil And Gas Drilling In State Parks http://www.northescambia.com/2012/02/florida-could-allow-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-state-parks Local News for Molino, Bratt, McDavid, Century, Walnut Hill, Cantonment Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:35:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2012/02/florida-could-allow-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-state-parks/comment-page-1#comment-117846 David Huie Green Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:12:30 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=84138#comment-117846 REGARDING: "Why don’t we put a rig in each and every back yard across America!!" A drilling rig is an expensive, complex machine designed to make holes in the ground and case those holes with steel pipe and cement and any other tubing or valves needed, then to move on. It includes a derrick for lifting tubing, a rotary system for turning the tubing, a pump system to pump drilling fluid down the hole, a solids removal system for removing the drilled up rock and a few other sub systems. Further, oil isn't found everywhere. You need a source rock to provide the hydrocarbons, a reservoir rock to hold the hydrocarbons in their pore spaces and a cap rock to stop the hydrocarbons from escaping--to make a trap. You also need a dip or angle to the formations such that the hydrocarbons can migrate to a single place. Even further, you don't need a hole every hundred feet to drain a reservoir. Roughly speaking you can drain petroleum over a 40 acre spread and natural gas over a 160 acre area (a quarter of a square mile). Nor does the surface have to be directly over the target area. Using directional drilling it is possible to send your hole several miles. (Every hole has to be surveyed to make sure where it goes and that is public record.) That's why you would never need a derrick or drilling rig in every back yard -- not that the kids wouldn't enjoy playing on it. David answering question REGARDING:
“Why don’t we put a rig in each and every back yard across America!!”

A drilling rig is an expensive, complex machine designed to make holes in the ground and case those holes with steel pipe and cement and any other tubing or valves needed, then to move on. It includes a derrick for lifting tubing, a rotary system for turning the tubing, a pump system to pump drilling fluid down the hole, a solids removal system for removing the drilled up rock and a few other sub systems.

Further, oil isn’t found everywhere. You need a source rock to provide the hydrocarbons, a reservoir rock to hold the hydrocarbons in their pore spaces and a cap rock to stop the hydrocarbons from escaping–to make a trap. You also need a dip or angle to the formations such that the hydrocarbons can migrate to a single place.

Even further, you don’t need a hole every hundred feet to drain a reservoir. Roughly speaking you can drain petroleum over a 40 acre spread and natural gas over a 160 acre area (a quarter of a square mile). Nor does the surface have to be directly over the target area. Using directional drilling it is possible to send your hole several miles. (Every hole has to be surveyed to make sure where it goes and that is public record.)

That’s why you would never need a derrick or drilling rig in every back yard — not that the kids wouldn’t enjoy playing on it.

David answering question

]]> By: me http://www.northescambia.com/2012/02/florida-could-allow-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-state-parks/comment-page-1#comment-117831 me Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:42:32 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=84138#comment-117831 Why don't we put a rig in each and every back yard across America!! Why don’t we put a rig in each and every back yard across America!!

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2012/02/florida-could-allow-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-state-parks/comment-page-1#comment-117580 David Huie Green Sun, 19 Feb 2012 03:53:11 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=84138#comment-117580 actually, the ocean's still there actually, the ocean’s still there

]]> By: huh http://www.northescambia.com/2012/02/florida-could-allow-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-state-parks/comment-page-1#comment-117554 huh Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:53:18 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=84138#comment-117554 Well, they destroyed the ocean, i guess the parks are next Well, they destroyed the ocean, i guess the parks are next

]]> By: Char http://www.northescambia.com/2012/02/florida-could-allow-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-state-parks/comment-page-1#comment-117526 Char Sat, 18 Feb 2012 18:35:34 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=84138#comment-117526 Sure destroy the state parks go ahead who cares, nothing ever happens that is bad around oil. Make that big ole money machine keep on rolling. That's what it is all about after all just MONEY. America the beautiful....where did it go? When nothing is left that is beautiful then will we learn, some things are worth preserving. I suppose not ! Sure destroy the state parks go ahead who cares, nothing ever happens that
is bad around oil. Make that big ole money machine keep on rolling. That’s what it is all about after all just MONEY.

America the beautiful….where did it go?

When nothing is left that is beautiful then will we learn, some things are
worth preserving.

I suppose not !

]]> By: David Huie Green http://www.northescambia.com/2012/02/florida-could-allow-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-state-parks/comment-page-1#comment-117474 David Huie Green Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:44:17 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=84138#comment-117474 REGARDING: "whole operation could be within a privacy fenced area of several acres and wouldn’t detract from anything" Except for the derrick during drilling, completion and workover operations. David in general agreement though REGARDING:
“whole operation could be within a privacy fenced area of several acres and wouldn’t detract from anything”

Except for the derrick during drilling, completion and workover operations.

David in general agreement though

]]> By: Walnut Hill Roy http://www.northescambia.com/2012/02/florida-could-allow-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-state-parks/comment-page-1#comment-117331 Walnut Hill Roy Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:39:30 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=84138#comment-117331 Without drilling for oil where it is available most of Florida will eventually become ghost towns with no need to worry about the "beauty". Today's oil wells will not destroy the Blackwater State Park, the whole operation could be within a privacy fenced area of several acres and wouldn't detract from anything. Sooner or later the NIMBYs (not in my back yard) will destroy this country. Without drilling for oil where it is available most of Florida will eventually become ghost towns with no need to worry about the “beauty”. Today’s oil wells will not destroy the Blackwater State Park, the whole operation could be within a privacy fenced area of several acres and wouldn’t detract from anything. Sooner or later the NIMBYs (not in my back yard) will destroy this country.

]]> By: Kathy http://www.northescambia.com/2012/02/florida-could-allow-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-state-parks/comment-page-1#comment-117321 Kathy Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:49:48 +0000 http://www.northescambia.com/?p=84138#comment-117321 Oh yes Sir Mr. Evers I want to see oil rigs in our state parks, it makes the environment so much more beautiful, safe and luxurious. AND it is so good for the water we drink. Oh yes Sir Mr. Evers I want to see oil rigs in our state parks, it makes the environment so much more beautiful, safe and luxurious. AND it is so good for the water we drink.

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