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I have heard in my travels across the midwest the word "Doodlebugger", a swindler who professes to be able to mysteriously find oil. As I study new methods to help find oil, I am forever doubtful, but just came across technology that seems very hopeful: Hyperspectral Imaging.
So what is hyperspectral imaging? In layman's provisos it dealings the basic signature at the earths external. From discs cool from satellites, the earth's external is portrayed in millions of different decorated pixels. Each pixel is a fingerprint of the compound basics and molecular compounds found. Studies have exposed that hydrocarbon leaching can be found at the earths external and starts what we outlook as "hotspots" that warrant added study. This technology up pending just was only worn by the big boys in the oil commerce, but now can be reasonably added to an exploration funds of most small indepedent oil explorers.
One crowd in West Virginia, Quickstrike, www.yourquickstrike.com has operated this technology good other geochemistry to refine their quest for oil/gas. Their sister crowd Geo-Max exploration has victoryfully built an impressive trail disc of oil and gas finds. Pete passage and Jack Vires are very cool to symposium to and can answer any questions or concerns you have about this technology. This is a close family run concern, which is one of the "basics" I like to see in companies I have relationships with.
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My crowd, Dynamic usual funds and Hughes Energy, Fairground-IL, plot on utilizing hyperspectral imaging in imminent months. We will start a 2 mile by 2 mile shot of the spot we are prospecting. Once we have attained the hotspots, we will operate "elevation looking flying radar" to locate the core breaks. Overlaying the break map and the "hotspots", give us a fantastic initial headland for added study.
When a hotspot and compound breaks unite this starts the whole environment for an accumulation of oil. More breaks start voids and senior permeability, hence more spots for oil to accumulate.
To added verify our findings, we then operate geochemistry. As oil and gas vertically migrate to the external over millions of existence they change the soil, plotts, and water. Where oil seeps, bacteria live in the soil and "supply" on the hydrocarbons. Soil samples can show us where the bacteria are concentrated and these fallout can be put into a laptop to be graphically displayed on our maps. Also, bacteria resperate CO2 when they supply on the hydrocarbons and we will examine for senior concentrations.
I can't vindicate the chemistry behind the next geocompound examine, but iodine has been a unfailing indicator of hydrocarbon intensity. We determine via soil samples and map with gps coordinates. The high concentrations also confirm our thesis of oil leaching.
Last but not slightest, we will operate soil gas study. Gas is made up of typically methane and oil typically pentane and butane. We can find some of the large microleaching with this system and the ratio of oil/gas.
I am sure that utilizing bitter boundary technology will permit us to have above mean victory in the ground. reminisce, oil well investing forever carries gamble even when you find the oil.
In imminent articles, I will be interoutlooking different explorers that have operated these technologies and updating readers on our improve in the ground.
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