Besides normal fluid drilling, there will be more advanced methods to extract oil in greater quantity or greater speed from oil veins. These would be done in new drilling multiblocks. More advanced methods to drill oil include:
Pumping CO2 or nitrogen into the fluid vein to displace fluids in the deposit
Pumping steam into the fluid vein to heat the deposit fluids, making it easier to pump.
Sodium hydroxide can be pumped into oil deposits to turn organic acids into soap, decreasing the tension.
Nanofluids are pumped into oil deposits to increase mobility
Food sources such as sugars/molasses or even growth medium with nutrients are injected into oil deposits to make underground microbes more active, allowing the oil to move easier
Synthetic Hydrocarbons
Fischer Thrope Process
The fischer-thrope process can be used to turn hydrogen and carbon monoxide into linear hydrocarbons, using a ruthenium catalyst. Syngas from pyrolysis may also be used. This reaction would take place at around 600 K at several tens of bars of pressure.
Turns methanol into aromatics such as benzene and xylene. This is similar to the fischer-thrope process but is capable of creating aromatics, which is something that the FT process cannot do. Methanol is dehydrated to produce dimethyl ether, in the presence of an alumina catalyst. In the final step, dimethyl ether is converted into aromatics, using ZSM-5 zeolite catalysts. The products would be separated in a distillation tower.
Oil Drilling
Re-add fracking from GCYS
Besides normal fluid drilling, there will be more advanced methods to extract oil in greater quantity or greater speed from oil veins. These would be done in new drilling multiblocks. More advanced methods to drill oil include:
Synthetic Hydrocarbons
Fischer Thrope Process
The fischer-thrope process can be used to turn hydrogen and carbon monoxide into linear hydrocarbons, using a ruthenium catalyst. Syngas from pyrolysis may also be used. This reaction would take place at around 600 K at several tens of bars of pressure.
Product list (from distillation)
Setup diagram: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13399-019-00459-5/figures/2
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer%E2%80%93Tropsch_process#Reaction_mechanism
Syngas to gasoline plus
Turns methanol into aromatics such as benzene and xylene. This is similar to the fischer-thrope process but is capable of creating aromatics, which is something that the FT process cannot do. Methanol is dehydrated to produce dimethyl ether, in the presence of an alumina catalyst. In the final step, dimethyl ether is converted into aromatics, using ZSM-5 zeolite catalysts. The products would be separated in a distillation tower.
Product list:
ZSM-5 catalyst production:
SiO2 + NaAlO2 + NaOH + tetrapropylammonium bromide + H2O → ZSM-5 + analcime + quartz (Maybe in LCR)
Tetrapropylammonium bromide synthesis: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4931593A/en Tripropylamine synthesis: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120004464A1/en Dipropylamine synthesis: https://patents.google.com/patent/CN1008815B/en
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngas_to_gasoline_plus
Ethylene and Acetylene
Methane can be converted into acetylene or ethylene, depending on catalysts and heat used. The catalysts are gated behind rare earth processing. The process is documented here: https://yandex.ru/patents/doc/RU2575007C1_20160210 (Methane -> acetylene) https://yandex.ru/patents/doc/RU2104089C1_19980210 (Methane -> ethylene)