Our book Mathematical Geoenergy presents a number of novel approaches that each deserve a research paper on their own. Here is the list, ordered roughly by importance (IMHO): Laplace’s T...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2020/03/mathematical-geoenergy.html
I synthesized the last several years of blog content and placed it into a book tentatively called The Oil ConunDRUM (ultimately titled Mathematical Geoenergy published by Wiley/AGU in 2019 ). T...
Entropy makes its mark everywhere. Take the case of modeling topography. How can we model and thus characterize disorder in the earth's terrain? Can we actually understand the extreme variability...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/12/terrain-slopes.html
A recent TOD post on reserve growth by Rembrandt Kopelaar motivated this analysis. The recovery factor indicates how much oil that one can recover from the original estimate. This has important...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/10/understanding-recovery-factors.html
This post either points out something pretty obvious or else it reveals something of practical benefit. You can judge for now. I briefly made a reference to bird survey statistics when I wrote t...
One pattern that has evaded linguists and cognitive scientists for some time relates to the quantitative distribution in human language diversity. Much like how plant and animal species diversify...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/10/tower-of-babel-how-languages-diversify.html
Consider a typical stock market. It consists of a number of stocks that show various rates of growth, R. Say that these have an average growth rate, r. Then by the Maximum Entropy Principle, the ...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/10/stock-market-as-econophysics-toy.html
Games for suits. This post has no relevance in the greater scheme of things. As a premise, consider that the financial industry needs instruments of wealth creation that work opposite to that of...
Our environment shows great diversity in the size and abundance in natural structures. Since we extract oil from our environment, it stands to reason that many of the same mechanisms leading to o...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/10/lake-size-distributions.html
A running theme of this blog involves the reduction of seemingly complex behaviors into simple mathematical formulations. It remains a bit of a mystery to me why in many situations that no one ha...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/09/hydrogeology-for-dummies.html
Oil Watch Monthly Because of the magnified nature of the production scale I find it interesting to place the data on the real scale, which shows the zeros and the full temporal range. See the s...
I did some analysis based on Berman's post from a few days ago: (Estimated Oil Flow Rates From the BP Mississippi Canyon Block 252 “Macondo” Well ) I think he messed up the statistics becaus...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/07/gom-maximum-production-rate-and-macondo.html
With all the discussion on the Gulf Oil disaster going on, lots of petroleum engineers and others from the oil industry have pitched in with their opinions. In which case we can see exactly what ...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/06/petroleum-engineering.html
Based on the increase in spill rate from the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well, HO at TheOilDrum.com suggested a potential explanation . His post essentially argued that sand particles acting as a ...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/06/hubbert-peak-in-five-easy-pieces.html
Question: > BigMoose on June 14, 2010 > - 6:26pm Permalink > | Subthread > | Parent > | Parent > subthread | Comments > top > > I have heard many unoffici...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/06/gom-reservoir-size-distributions.html
UPDATE: Here is a real-life crazy Mentaculus man ⇦ Paul Vaughan is Arthur. I saw the Coen brothers movie "A Serious Man" a few months ago. A definite period piece from the 1960's, it co...
Former USGS staffer Steven Gorelick has written a book called " Oil Panic and the Global Crisis: Predictions and Myths" . It has to rank as the worst of the neo-cornucopian books out there simply...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/05/worst-book-on-oil-crisis-written-yet.html
I should have run this particular simulation long ago. In this exercise, I essentially partitioned the Dispersive Discovery model into a bunch of subvolumes. Each subvolume belongs to a specific...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/06/oil-discovery-simulation-reality.html
I wrote about the unpredictably predictable nature of wind power in a few recent posts . And of course we have watched the unexpected and unpredicted blow-out of the Deepwater Horizon oil wel...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/06/predictably-unreliable.html
I have seen much discussion on TOD and elsewhere of the effectiveness of adding relief wells to take the pressure off the failed well in the Gulf. Occasionally I have noticed questions on how on...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/06/reliability-of-relief-wells.html
As we learn how to extract energy from disordered, entropic systems such as amorphous photovoltaics and wind power , we can really start thinking creatively in terms of our analysis. Most of the...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/06/thermal-entropic-dispersion.html
By adding more data to the post on wind dispersion , we can observe how dispersion in wind speeds has a universal character. I picked up the previous data set from several years worth of output f...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/06/wind-variability-in-germany.html
Credit the Gulf oil disaster with allowing the words dispersion and dispersants to enter our common vocabulary. In the context of the spill, the use of dispersants on the oil causes the potential...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/05/word-on-dispersion.html
To get the cost of photovoltaic (PV) systems down, we will have to learn how to efficiently use crappy materials. By crap I mean that mass-produced PV materials will end up getting rolled or extr...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/05/fokker-planck-for-disordered-systems.html
The big Gulf Spill got me thinking about the half-life of the leaking crude oil and the expanding slick. First of all, the oil will biodegrade over time. We don't have the situation as in CO2 whe...
http://mobjectivist.blogspot.com/2010/05/waste-half-life.html