Pretty much 90% sitting around waiting with 10% stuff happening at the moment. Today is even worse as we are moving locations from one well site to another. As i am not allowed to participate in anything physical, apparently i am here for my brians, i’ve been catching up on the work that we are about to do. I also have an internet connection which means i’ve been checking stuff out as i do.
A great video which is always worth seeing is by Hans Rosling about the Stats you have never seen. Really fascinating stuff and he also swallows a sword at the end which si also impressive. He makes the software and a lot fo data available on his website called GapMinder. So i’ve just been playing around with the data seeing what correlations there are and the like. It is always easier when someone has gone to the effort tof formatting the data so it is read properly. The number of things at work that would be interesting to investigate for correlations or patterns but is too time consuming because the data is in several different formats and needs cleaning up is pretty extensive.
I thought this graph of Total Oil consumption versus Number of Cars per 1000 people. I highlighted US, China and UK. You can see the trend from the last 5 years, america is way up at the top with their energy use but seeing China int he left hand corner shooting up with still a very slow percentage of cars per 1000 people is worrying. I know transport only accounts for 11% of fuel use ( stats that i vaguely remember might not be true) but that percentage of transport is only going to increase which i am sure is going to push that consumption even faster. What was interesting to see as well was the other countries haven’t been experiencing the same level of oil consumption growth.
The usual Energy versus GDP/Capita is also interesting to see. The UK and Japan have been able to grow their GDP per capita which out a corresponding increase in oil consumption. While the US is requiring larger and larger amounts of oil consumption for its increase in GDP. Not sure if this is perhaps because as we often hear that America is the Worlds Engine or that they are just more inefficient with it. You can see China and India playing catch up at the left hand side. What will be interesting to see though is if the same pace can be achieved as renewables are brought into the energy mix. For much of this graph they haven’t been a factor but going fwd it might be the case that you can continue to increase your GDP without consuming more oil. It looks a little like that has happened in Japan where you see the increase and then the leveling off. This might have coincided with them taking up nuclear energy in a large way.
One last graph, which seems to show that demand is for energy is inelastic to the price of petrol. I appreciate that not all energy demand is for petrol but i would have thought it would have had a bit of blip when prices increased.
So that has kept me a little distracted. Also read a number of SPE papers about hydraulic fracturing. making sure i have an udnerstanding of what is going on down there. Just been reading about Pressure Dependent Leak Off and Process Zone Stress and understanding which one we might encounter. Looks like PDL. This paper SPE 107971 goes into it quite a bit.
Also read a good biography relevent to the work we are doing in Australia. Called Rock Star, all about Australia’s most prominent geologist Reg Sprigg. This guy lived life at 1000 mph. It was quite amazing to read how much he was involved in here in Australia. he discovered some of the earliest fossils, developed australias first uranium mine, had interests in nickel and other metals, drove across the Simpson desert by car, basically told Santos to drillin the Copper Basin when everyone else thought it was a crack pot idea (it has now been on production for over 40 years), built up his own oil company, was a deep sea diver, made a geophysics boat and had his own nature reserve. Well worth a read really.
Not much change to take any photography here at the moment, can’t say i have seen anythign to itneresting. But it was a great drive out ehre. Really going through the bush for the last 80km or so. Only saw one wallaby though. I was drivign a massive tank of a vechile though so they probably heard me a long way off.
