The Hydroplane Analogy: Water Blocking Oil Flow

Added: 2026-05-07

[00:00:00]And it's kind of like, you know, um, if you think about a, uh, a car driving down the road, you want the car to be able to have traction, but if you get too much water in the wrong place, the water starts stacking and your your car will hydroplane, right?

[00:00:23]Well, similar thing happens through all these intricate, uh, fractures that we have to get the the oil out and that water stays in place and ultimately keeps the the hydrocarbon, the oil, from moving through and past it.

[00:00:40]And it blocks and basically spins it out and the only thing we end up getting back from the well is the water, some of the water, plus, um, a natural gas cuz it's really small. But the bigger, more valuable hydrocarbon, it gets trapped. It It gets, uh, stuck on the highway and you get a big pileup. It's basically like