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Originally Posted by freebeard
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I was speaking within the context of Russian petroleum engineering, in which a time might come when artificial-lift might be desired, involving a working barrel, pump, and 10-miles-plus of sucker rod suspended from a pump-jack, operating through a gland-packing, on top of 'boiling' temperatures, and super-heated brine, with dissolved, vapor-stage 'oil' and methane.
After the hydrocarbons were extracted from the brine, the remnants would require injection down a second hole for enhanced-recovery, plus, perhaps CO2 injection, working against hydrostatic pressure of an inflated crust undergoing isostatic crush.