Re: non-conventional oil
Posted: Sun 03 Sep 2017, 10:57:42
Oil is oil regardless of its API gravety, if it's from a frac'd well or not, from a vertical or horizontal well. I can give you a sample of 44 API oil and no lab analysis will tell if it came from the EFS or my Louisiana well.
This confusion has been going on too long.
As with most things a term used to describe one thing gets used elsewhere on something entirely different and then again on something related but also different resulting in a term without a very good definition. This generally isn't a problem for oil and gas folks who understand what is being referred to depending on the context...it is more of a problem for the general public who latch on to a term without understanding the true meaning. There was a poster given at the 2012 AAPG convention in Long Beach that addresses the issues and proposes a solution.
http://www.searchanddiscovery.com/documents/2012/80217cander/ndx_cander