KaiserJeep wrote:Conventional wells are what M. King Hubbert wrote about.
Interesting. So in 1956 he excluded the production from horizontal wells that had been producing since 1927 or so, and the oil and gas production from the 100,000+ hydraulic fractured wells that had already occurred? I am surprised that he was that thorough, because when I read his 1956 paper, he didn't make that distinction, nor did he even use the word "conventional".
But we all must admit that there has been quite a bit of revisionist history when it comes to what modern peak oilers have inserted into his ideas from that seminal work, as it became ever more obvious that bell shaped curves don't work at all.
KaiserJeep wrote: Loosely defined they are holes drilled in the ground to remove liquid petroleum.
Well, it is nice to know that the Bakken, Eagle Ford, Woodford, liquids rich Marcellus, Barnett, Haynesville shales all qualify as conventional then. Admittedly, your definition seem to exclude drilling for natural gas, so would all those wells be unconventional because they just produce dry gas?
Plant Thu 27 Jul 2023 "Personally I think the IEA is exactly right when they predict peak oil in the 2020s, especially because it matches my own predictions."
Plant Wed 11 Apr 2007 "I think Deffeyes might have nailed it, and we are just past the overall peak in oil production. (Thanksgiving 2005)"