On Jun 26, 4:31*pm, Wes wrote:

Current engineering technology cannot contain gas that is pressurized to
100,000 psi.

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?



Wes

My rough calculations say that for a 4 inch id and 100,000 psi, the
wall thickness would have to be about 4 inches if you used HSLA
steel. And that is without any safety factor. Time for nanotubes.

Dan