"MOIST MOISTURE”
Even Ducks Would Sink
Water in which a duck would sink, was exhibited at the International Petroleum Exposition, Oklahoma, U.S.A., recently. This water is used in oil wells, and is chemically treated to make it extra “wet.” ■ The liquid becomes so moist, it was explained, that it would penetrate a duck’s feathers all the way to the skin, and render him too heavy to float. The water is mixed with acid and pumped into oil wells to increase production. Because of its extreme wetness the water penetrates deeply into the stony formations which trap oil within their pores. Many of these oilholding pores are too small to be seen, except under a microscope. The acid mixed with the water opens the rocky pores and makes new drainage channels to untap oil reservoirs. This “moist moisture” is one of the developments in acidising oil wells The acidising is confined to limestone wells, but these wells furnish about 20 per cent, of America’s petroleum.
Acid is used after oil ceases its natural flow. To date, the. process has added 450 per cent to the production of limestone wells.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 10 (Supplement)
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188"MOIST MOISTURE” Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 242, 9 July 1938, Page 10 (Supplement)
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