Thursday, August 29, 2019

Update On Alabama's Hartselle Sandstone -- August 29, 2019

From August 10, 2013, the Hartselle Sandstone, and then nothing since.

From 2016, this should load as a pdf (previously posted, but being re-posted as a reminder):

Data points:
  • an abstract from "Search and Discovery Article #51285 (2016)
  • presented at AAPG annual convention, Calgary, Alberta, CA, June 19 -22, 2016
  • Mississippian age Hartselle Sandstone of northwestern Alabama
  • estimates:
    • 7.5 billion bbls of bitumen (think western Canadian sands heavy oil)
    • roughly 350 million bbls within 50 feet of the surface
  • no commercial development has occurred as of yet
  • Alabama Oil Sands Program (AOSP) established
  • apparently still testing outcrops
  • the graphic at the linked article suggests AOS about one-third the geographic footprint of Alberta's Athabasca
  • Alberta's oil sands: 174 billion bbls of bitumen
  • Alabama: 7.5 billion bbls
  • comparable to early estimates of the Bakken 
Tea leaves suggest exploiting the oil sands in Alabama won't happen any time soon.

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