Replies to post #4980 on GulfSlope Energy Inc (GSPE)

[Tbags7]

Wow I really appreciate this detail MktMvn! Thank you spec for prompting the deep dive here! Thank you WG for the song playlists and keeping it light!

[spec machine]

Thank you, that's great info and I don't think anyone can ever know too much or be too curious about the nuts and bolts of a business they're invested in.

A couple other questions along those lines, please add or correct as you see fit

1 - Mahogany confirms an active "kitchen" or source rock below reservoir sands that has sufficient carbon and has been at the appropriate temperature and pressure to "cook" out the oil and gas that migrates upward and hopefully trapped in the reservoir sands

In the case of Mahogany and likely others in the same general temperature/pressure conditions, the salt wicks away heat to keep the temps in the predominantly oil range and therefore less is converted to less profitable gas

Is there a way to estimate when the trap forms relative to the migration of oil as I have heard that a "late trap" can miss the migration

2 - drilling salt - My general sense is that the salt edge is the trickiest and it is not uniformly solid due to relative movement as the salt flows, is the term "gumbo" related to only edges?

Is there any advantage to the type of trap at Corvette in this regard? Possibly having a more horizontal salt/rock interface that might be less relative motion at the bore location and therefore less unpredictable?

3 - something in the data was pointing Delek to Tau first, any idea what factor that might have been?

Thanks

spec

PS - thank you WG for the excellent tunes, especially Audioslave (#3)
it brings tears to my eyes at 2:30 seeing the Jag go over the cliff, but the guy WAS being a dick

British roadsters deserve better than that :-(

A guy taking his girl for nice ride on a winding mountain road on a beautiful Spring day, yeah that would do it!

[NorOilGuy1]

Very interesting thanks for that information
MktMvn

[Byurwherevergirl]

Thanks MktMvn. You’re super knowledgeable about the petroleum industry and I’m very interested in what you have to say. I have a few questions if you have time to answer them over the long weekend. I’ll pop in on the board from time to time.

As you can see I’m a total novice in this field. I was thinking the Corvette prospect was the opposite with it’s “turtle dome structure”, since it “doesn’t have the spread out closed area” like the Tau prospect. Does the Tau not offer more “borehole” opportunities with it’s “spread out closed area” than the Corvette, should “one” well not succeed?

Do you think Gulslope will bring a new partner in on the Tau2? Is Delek still a partner in the Tau prospect? Would that not make Delek part of a Tau2 if they were?

I have so many more. I just don’t want to overload you.

Have a nice long weekend everyone.

WG

;-)