"Wes" wrote in message
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"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.

What are you going to make the vessels and fittings out of, to tolerate 100
kips of sustained pressure? This wouldn't be some thin-walled container.
Welding is probably out of the picture.

You can make lab-scale equipment that will handle it, but I doubt if you
could produce something of the scale needed for this job.


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

They say it's dead zooplankton and algae. Maybe there's a dino in there
every so often. d8-)

I have no way of knowing, Wes. Anything chemical is 'way out of my realm.

--
Ed Huntress