"Ed Huntress" wrote:

Really? I used to work with waterjets that ran 60K psi and I noticed that
the supplier of
my fittings had stuff that went 150K psi. Obviously, smaller than
drilling pipe and
casing. Can't you scale up the walls of casing to deal with the
pressures?

"Stuff" that will handle 150 kips is at the high end of workable engineering
materials. To make a little waterjet out of stronger materials is one thing.
To make containment and attachment fittings out of it, at that scale, is
just about off the charts.

But the target pressure was 100 Ksi.

Btw. do you by into the dead dinosaur and plant life theory or do you think something else
is going on below making oil? The scale of the thing has me wondering.

Wes
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