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):

http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2016/51285hooks/ndx_hooks.pdf

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.