[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally posted by Tron_fdc@Apr 7 2005, 04:15 PM
Well, pickle me silly but wouldn't it make sense to drill a well from the deepest part (or a very deep part) of the ocean? If you take the ocean depth at its greatest level, plus another 1500 metres, wouldn't that be a deeper overall depth than Alberta seeing as we're what.....3000 ft above sea level?

I dunno, I'm no engimineer mathematematician.

I'm guessing they didn't drill at the deepest part of the ocean, because that kind of technology simply doesn't exist. I may not be 100% correct, but the deepest water ever drilled in is in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of about 2200 m of water, that still puts this well at only about 3600m subsea, which is still not even close to the deepest well in Alberta. And if they aren't drilling for oil in water deeper than 2200m, then they sure as hell aren't doing it for research purposes.