How deep into the ground are we able to go? Way out of my comfort zone and not trying to speak for DM, but cracking I think is an industry term for the breakdown of long petroleum hydrocarbon chains into smaller ones, I guess which occurs at higher temperatures. Did the oil form directly under the sands and rock of the peninsula strictly due to sedimentation? Fingernails can grow a lot in 4,500,000,000 years. Prior to this, the deepest well was the 31,441 feet deep Lone Star Producing Co. 1-27 Bertha Rogers well in Washita County, Oklahoma. The deepest hole within the U.S. is the Bertha Rogers gas well in Oklahoma at 32,000 feet (6 miles) deep. Look around at the surrounding ranges. Which typically means it must be porous, and capped by an overlying layer of impermeable material. On April 13, 1974, Bertha Rogers No. Walker Ridge 758 Chevron #1 is the deepest active oil producer in the Gulf of Mexico; drilled to a true vertical depth (TVD) of 28,497 (8.7 km) in a water depth of 6,959. As I think the author hints,, don't become too infatuated with the technology because it's expensive. If the energy return goes to less than about 12X the energy invested we are in trouble. Beginning in the late 1950s, when technological advance allowed it, Anadarko Basin wells began to be drilled below the thirteen-thousand-foot level in what geologists call "the deep gas play." After all, the purpose of Rosneft and Exxon was to pump oil, not see how far they can go into the ground: a feat in which serious challenges abound. The Kola well has now penetrated about halfway through the crust of the Baltic continental shield, exposing rocks 2.7 billion years old at the bottom (for comparison, the Vishnu schist at the bottom of the Grand Canyon dates to about 2 billion years--the earth itself is about 4.6 billion years old). Its not only not the worlds deepest oil well, its about 20,000 shy of the deepest oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, possibly deepest in the world. The goal was to reach a discontinuity between the upper mantle and the Earths crust called the Mohorovicic discontinuity - commonly termed the "Moho." John Livingston Grandin dug his well nearby using a simple spring pole but soon wedged his iron chisel downhole. Despite the record-setting Bertha Rogers and other deep wells in the Anadarko basin, the Permian basin currently Users agree not to download, copy, modify, sell, lease, rent, reprint, or otherwise distribute these materials, or to link to these materials on another web site, without authorization of the Oklahoma Historical Society. *Until 2004 the Bertha Rogers No. I dont spend energy to fill my gas tank. The well was halted because it struck molten sulfur. The most slots on a Spar platform is 20 on the Genesis A facility on Green Canyon 205 in 2,590 WD and on the Holstein A facility on Green Canyon 645 in 4,340 WD. This is perhaps the most geologically ignorant sentence I have ever read UUAlerts Even so, Bertha Rogers reigned as the deepest well in the United States for three decades, finally exceeded in 2004., Although no gas was produced at its record depth, the well was successfully competed as a natural gas discovery at 13,000 feet. The fact that ExxonMobil geos identified the oil rims from seismic anomalies (multiple flat-spots) with sufficient confidence that they got the Chayvo-6A well drilled is possibly the most impressive thing. Nonporous shale is shattered by high pressure fluids, and then the cracks are propped open with sand or some such material. Everest and all mountain ranges with elevations of 2 miles above sea level to the areal extent of all oil fields with producing layers greater than 2 miles below sea level? However, the true vertical depth of the worlds deepest oil well is only about a very unremarkable 11,000 deep The Z-44 well was designed for a horizontal completion, so its measured depth was exceptionally long. All of the wells are tiebacks. But is the O-14 really 49,000 feet deep? The well set a world record and remains one of the deepest ever drilled. Three of the project wells set ERD records for measured depth (MD). It is not oil or gas that is being sought with the Kola well, but an understanding of the nature of the earth's crust. If one says subduction, I say Mt. https://wordpress.com/post/debunkhouse.wordpress.com/6995 The technology for mining the depths at which the solutions occur, however, is not yet available. We also plugged back and made a gas completion at 12,800 feet. If someone has not taken the time read and understand those posts they really should not clog up the comments with the same old rhetoric. The Kola super-deep borehole wasnt drilled for hydrocarbons. Future-Directed, Employee Directory Remains of birds (which are dinosaurs) are slightly more common. Perhaps the most effective method has been from studying earthquake or seismic waves as they move from one sensing station to another. Most people will read that term and immediately misunderstand it. The bottom hole temperature was 226 F. I was just looking at one report of a storm near the Texas Mexico border than reached 75,000. In 1979, the No. & USGS World Energy Assessment Team. Spudded in November 1972 and averaging about 60 feet per day, the Bertha Rogers had been heading for the history books as the world's deepest well at the time. Some parts of this region were only kind of swampy, or were large lakes, etc. As an Amazon Associate, AOGHS earns a commission from qualifying purchases. It works both ways. Saint Helens, I say Saudia Arabia peninsula. Anytime a graphic purports to equate altitude with depth in the Earth, you know the person(s) authoring the graphic are solely in it for publishing glory. That person has a low chance of ever getting themselves straightened out. This mud log sample shows drilling rate and lithology from 4700 ft to . No part of this site may be construed as in the public domain. Subscribe Now, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Heritage Preservation Grant Program. It was drilled for research purposes beginning in 1970. natural gas? The term fishing came from early percussion drilling using cable-tools. Copyright to all articles and other content in the online and print versions of The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History is held by the Oklahoma Historical Society (OHS). Research genealogy for Bertha Rogers of Broken Hill, NSW, Australia, as well as other members of the Rogers family, on Ancestry. My immediate thought was : how then did snow get on the top of Mt Everest ? Many lakes exist at very high places. Sorry, thats for Gordon, not DM. 1 had to be completed at just 14,000 feet after striking molten sulfur at 31,441 feet. Using nails and wax, an impression block helps determine what is stuck downhole. It had three anvils one above the other. Despite its depth, the bottomhole temperature was only about 280 F, within the oil window. Science is the looking at and re-looking at theories and observations. First a snippet of it for a teaser, then the link: The Greenhouse Effect was originally defined around the hypothesis that visible light penetrating the atmosphere is converted to heat on absorption and emitted as infrared, which is subsequently trapped by the opacity of the atmosphere to infrared. I honestly want to know: Are you happier for having this halcyon memory, or sadder because you cant do things like that anymore? The bottom line isnt denominated in joules, watts or Btu Its denominated in $$$. The zones were layers, about 7 potential zones, the Granite Wash was the last one to test as you came uphole. Keep piling the sediments on and the crust below sinks. 1 in Washita County, drilled in 1971 to 31,441 feet, was then the world's deepest well. To fish for stuck tools, these were lowered in well, armed at their end with a die with a left-hand thread cut in it. The Sierra Nevada contains some of these types of features, which subsequent erosion brought to the surface. He does seem to have the height of Everest at least approximately right. A 2014 geologic map of 50,000 square mile Anadarko Basin showing thickness of strata courtesy U.S. Geological Survey. Luckily, the oil industry does not have such human obstacles, and drilling deep into the Earths crust is instead limited by a different set of circumstances how deep can the machinery and technology go before the unfathomable heat and pressure renders it inoperable? New ocean crust is always forming at the undersea places called mid-ocean ridges. The following (as per The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition) is the preferred citation for articles:Bobby D. Weaver, Anadarko Basin, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AN003. My interest was in meteorology. The guy had style though: He shot himself through the heart, not the head. I flamed out one engine in my F-4 at M1.6 (but very little indicated airspeed) at 65000ft on the TexArkana border. The Bertha Rogers No. And over long periods of time, the plates can smash into each other, or be ripped apart, etc. They can fill in. Need to drink less and read more before I post. Since it was established by an Act of Congress in 1946, scientists at the Geophysical Institute have studied geophysical processes from the center of the Earth to the surface of the sun and beyond, turning data and observations into information useful for state, Arctic and national priorities. They drilled assuming it was an overthrust, and tried drilling through the granite, You can see the entire Anardako geological sequence on the road cuts as you drive I35 through the Arbuckle Mountains, the zones are laying sideways, Walk toward the fire. "Even so, Bertha Rogers reigned as the deepest well in the United States for three decades, finally exceeded in 2004." Drilling strained the Bertha Rogers rig's equipment to the limit and the well had to be "fished" 16 months after drilling began (see Fishing in Petroleum Wells). And just as compression can uplift the land, at other times this compression may slacked, and the uplifted terrain then gets stretched out and drops. 2181 Union Ave. It is produced by bacterial action when hydrocarbons come into contact with sulfate minerals (which are plentiful in salt deposits). Impressive is too weak a word for these kinds of depths. Todays infographic comes to us from Fuel Fighter, and it helps to visualize the mind-boggling depths of the worlds deepest oil well, which is located in a remote corner of eastern Russia. . https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFHtvDA0W34I&ved=2ahUKEwj73Ky8897hAhVDmIsKHbfZCfAQwqsBMAB6BAgGEAU&usg=AOvVaw3fMJb2nOZzbkk6cRpI1kqX. Terrific post. The second drilling campaign at the Chayvo field, located offshore Sakhalin Island, targeted a new reservoir zone using extended-reach wells from onshore. All rights reserved. The San Andreas is a transform fault, and the land on the west side of it, including Baja California and the southern coast of CA including San Diego and Los Angeles, is actually part of the Pacific plate. Get to know us - Dr Bertha Rogers At our practice in Oxford Circus (W1W), all of our therapists are qualified psychologists, psychotherapists or counsellors. That email address is already in the database. Societies dont produce energy, businesses do. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? The overriding factor is economics which is frighteningly skewed today in the world of wind and solar. Wells. When the overburden consists of 8,000 of seawater and 2,000 of halite, 30,000 of overburden weighs a lot less than it does when its all composed of more dense rocks. No doubt We have a Sinclair dino sign on the fence in our driveway and about a dozen inflatable Sinclair dinos I always pick a couple up at Sinclairs booth at NAPE. I recall the interview I saw, in which after he stepped off his platform, he thought he was not falling and was going to die when his oxygen ran out, since he was so high there was no sensation of wind rushing past him. So I got a few numbers wrong but hey that is why I dropped the bits of science I did not like at school to concentrate on the real important stuff like real sciencesocial science. Did it ever pay out the cost of drilling to 31,000? Aristotlesolely sees argument through the three. My gas & electric bills are paid for with money. Those are from the time when the Atlantic was just a rift valley or a narrow sea and vast amounts of sediments was eroded from the escarpments on both sides and deposited in the rift, together with salt from salt lakes and restricted hypersaline arms of the ocean. Individuals should consider whether they can afford the risks associated to trading. Independent producer John West in 2006 preserved artifacts in the closed Anadarko Basin Museum of Natural History in Elk City, Oklahoma. The basin contains sedimentary deposits ranging in thickness from two thousand feet on its northern and western flanks to forty thousand feet in its southern portion. The rock bends and cracks, there are slumps and slides which displace large blocks away from the river mouths. but then again it has been implied that I am ignorant of geology. EROEI is just about the dumbest concept to ever come out of academia. The ultra-deepwater Lower Tertiary play in the Gulf of Mexico and the deep subsalt plays offshore Brazil are often cited as examples of abiotic oil because the reservoirs are supposedly too deep, too hot and/or too highly pressured to be in the oil window. UA is committed to providing accessible websites. One of the cable tool sections would eventually yield, unscrew, and be removed.. In 2008, an oil well was drilled to 40,318 feet in Qatar. These are the sort of questions that spur invention and lead to groundbreaking discoveries. When controls on gas prices were lifted, Anadarko justified the faith and perseverance of The GHK Company and other operators who pioneered in deep drilling. Long wells arent deep wells. The Depraved and MOST Deplorable Vlad the Impaler, The Worlds Deepest Oil Well: How Bad Science Spreads on the Internet, Increase in U.S. Wildfires Due to Climate Change, Climate Change Will Increase the Number and Severity of Tornadoes. Hope its obvious that that was for Gordon too. Ten years ago, the latest data from the Energy Information Administration shows, the average depth of U.S. exploration oil wells was almost 7,800 feet. http://old.fai.org/news/personalities/35338-judyleden, While not a hot air balloon, Joe Kittinger jumped out of a balloon gondola at 102,800, http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2014/August 2014/Kittinger.aspx, Yeah, but did she do it with no oxygen or even a heavy coat? A 1974 souvenir of the Bertha Roger No. including Medicare and Medicaid. Held by some guy named Larry, who had only planned to go up about 30 , but miscalculated. I recalled a paper on the geology/geophysics of the Chayvo field I knew the TVDs were unremarkable, but I just never had the time to look up the drilling details. Ill just keep drinking and reading. 10.2523/IPTC-10573-MS. Handbook of Texas Online, Jeff Seidel, ENSERCH CORPORATION, accessed April 17, 2019,http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dqe01. Image from A Handbook of the Petroleum Industry, 1922. This can drop the rocks 20 plus km, which means its possible to have 20 km thick pile of sediment under 2 km of water. Some natural gas in the basin has unusually high helium content (greater than 0.3%). Please report any problems or feedback concerning this website to uaf-rcs@alaska.edu. Dating methods include vitranite reflectance and 13C isotope ratios in diamondoids (which arent diamonds). This water (variously known as "water of crystallization", "primary" water, or "juvenile" water) which originates as an integral part of the rock crystals is very highly mineralized, and is a primary concentrating agent for most ore deposits. But also keep in mind that the places where oil and gas are recovered are not the source of the material, but simply a place where the right conditions exist to trap a large amount of it as it percolates upwards . Hes completely on top of his subject and a master of communication. Has any oil sample been found to scientifically date to prior to the beginning of the Triassic period, approx. In this manner, they were able to eliminate rotation of the entire drill string above. This motion is typically a few inches per year. That is quite some subduction. A rope was wound around this wheels rim and led to the bull wheel shaft. The Lone Star Producing Company 1-27 Bertha Rogers hole or well was an oil-exploratory hole drilled in Washita County, Oklahoma in 1974, and was the world's deepest hole[2] until it was surpassed in 1979 by the Kola Superdeep Borehole, dug by the USSR. Its more like a very large trampoline where rivers dump enormous amounts of sand and mud, driving it down with their weight. How do we know? About as fast as fingernails grow. It was completed in a Lower Tertiary Wilcox sandstone (26,831 27,385). (I know. On Russia's Kola Peninsula, near the Norwegian border at about the same latitude as Prudhoe Bay, the Soviets have been drilling a well since 1970. Apparently, 12 kilometers was the maximum at the time before technical difficulties related to pressure, resistance, and heat became overwhelming. I think Ill stop (commenting, not reading). Max Clouds height obviously wrong, vertical drilling depths obviously wrong (um, length does not equal depth unless plumb vertical). 205 Indian Lake Blvd. Where applicable, the oil has been dated and matched to geochemically consistent kerogen in source rocks. Summary. David Middleton, thank you for your very comprehensive, informative reply. For permission, contact us. This isnt even wrong. Although the remarkable deep fishing achievement was celebrated, the Bertha Rogers No. Rosneft states it on its website, in a press release on the completion of O-14, that the total depth of the well, including the vertical and the directional section, is 15 km, of which the non-vertical section extends 14.13 km, or 46,900 feet. And the hotter it gets, the drier the gas. According to Lone Star Producing Company, the bottom hole pressure and temperature were an estimated 24,850 pounds per square inch and 475 degrees Fahrenheit respectively. As old ocean plates are subducted, sometimes islands, sediments, and anything else sitting on top of them is scraped off and accreted in the area adjacent to the subduction zone. A total of four oil producers and one gas injector were planned to develop the northern portion of the reservoir. We acknowledge the Alaska Native nations upon whose ancestral lands our campuses reside. We were using elevators and a slide table instead of slips. Doesnt the sulfur in matches contribute to acid rain? In addition to the important bearing that this discovery has on the general geophysical sciences, there is a potential economic impact. We were using Black Magic as the drill fluid which made the drill floor slippery as fresh owl defecate. They were 17,000 deeper than the deepest hydrocarbon bearing formation in the well. The Lone Star Producing Company 1-27 Bertha Rogers hole or well was an oil-exploratory hole drilled in Washita County, Oklahoma in 1974, and was the world's deepest hole [2] until it was surpassed in 1979 by the Kola Superdeep Borehole, dug by the USSR. ROBERT ALEXANDER HEFNER III, PETROLEUM INDUSTRY. On April 13, 1974, Bertha Rogers No. Geologists knew far more about finding coal seams than characteristics of oil-bearing formations. This becomes the hydrocarbon source rock. As drillers gained experience with deeper wells, patent applications included hundreds of designs for catching some tool or part that had been broken or lost in the borehole. Bertha Rogers. I had a fantastic weekend in OK City Luckily I didnt loose pressurisation otherwise I wouldnt be here to write this drivel! Bertha Rogers is a poet, teaching artist, and founding director of Bright Hill Press and Literary Center in New York's Catskill Mountain Region. Organic geochemical analyses of fine-grained rocks from the 9.590 km Bertha Rogers No. The Kola superdeep borehole, drilled in Russias Far East during the 70s and early 80s, was drilled simply to see how far into the ground we can go. Bertha was a daughter of the late Toy and Ada O'Quinn Jackson. Become an AOGHS supporting member and help maintain this energy education website and expand historical research. If it's that water boiling hot deep down the well, why not turn it into geothermal energy generator? Where they were digging, the Moho is 16,000 ft deep, so the team fell far short of their goal. Although, it remained the deepest hole on the planet for five years. Of course since it was in the tropics it didnt have the dynamics to be severe but Im sure if it had been over the island there would have been flooding. Given the technology and funds, geologists would like to try to go deeper for core samples, but digging such holes requires much patience, money, technology, and luck. This sidesteps the basic question of how so much organic material (eliminating an abiotic origin) became so deeply buriedvia subduction, subsidence or sedimentation overlayin the first place to eventually allow its transformation into oil and its percolation upwards. At 31,441 feet, the Bertha Rogers well held a record at the turn of the twenty-first century as the world's deepest producing well. Greenhouse Effect noun the trapping of the suns warmth in the planets lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planets surface. I dont give energy back to the gas & electric companies in exchange for them being nice enough to heat and light my home. Consequently, in other places, oceanic crust plunges down into the mantle and is recycled. That was not drilling for oil, though. The American Oil & Gas Historical Society preserves U.S. petroleum history. It is not emotional. The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change, This eye-catching blog post was published in 2017 by Fuel Fighter. Its Abiotic, Rockefeller had his hand in creating the label, Fossil Fuel Nonsense. It's possible to draw a reasonable cross section of the earth based purely on remote geophysical (largely seismic) methods, but unless on-the-spot checks can be made, there will always be a certain amount of guesswork involved. . Other plates have been, and still are, doing so. U.S. petroleum history provides a context for understanding how to meet Americas future energy needs. 21, 2017, 7:33 PM. The most slots on a TLP (tension leg platform) is 32 on the Auger A facility on Garden Banks 426 in 2,860 WD. Did anything ever become of that effort? Submit a Correction The U.S. Labor Department describes an Oil Well Fishing Tool Technician (Occupational Title 930.261-010) as an occupation that analyzes conditions of unserviceable oil or gas wells and directs use of special well-fishing tools and techniques to recover lost equipment and other obstacles from boreholes of wells,, The government description adds that the technician plans fishing methods, selects tools, and directs drilling crew in applying weights to drill pipes, in using special tools, in applying pressure to circulating fluid (mud), and in drilling around lodged obstacles or specified earth formations, using whipstocks and other special tools.. Downstream from the Himalaya and the Rockies respectively. In terms of true vertical depth, the Bertha Rogers No 1 natural gas well in the Anadarko Basin used to be the deepest in the world, at over 31,400 feet. The deepest hole by far is one on the Kola Peninsula in Russia near Murmansk, referred to as the "Kola well." And within that pile of sediment we find rocks holding organic material which didnt get eaten by bacteria when it fell to the bottom. it would be interesting to read Fuel Fighters account of this well. It reached 40,230 feet deep. The Pacific plate is not being subducted beneath North America at the present time. Theres probably a little bit of everything in crude oil Its just mostly algae and phytoplankton. The Bakken shale members were deposited in a shallow marine environment under anoxic conditions. Very happy to have the memory of this and many more close shaves but I have moved on to live a very full and exciting life. The crust is divided up into sections called plates, which are all shapes and sizes, and may consist of all oceanic crust, all continental crust, or some of each. I especially like how they depict it as soil the entire way down. It is not uncommon for people to get stuff wrong, and not very surprising. McKinley. In order to get their single drill hole down as far as they did, the Soviets had to resort to experimental methods. 1 reached a total depth of 31,441 feet where it encountered liquid sulfur. As gas prices equate more closely to value, the nations needs may be met increasingly from this massive sedimentary basin, a focal point in drilling innovation and geological interpretation. It doesnt support the myth of abiotic oil in the slightest. The main target depth was set at 15000 m. On 6 June 1979, the world depth record held by the . Details of course are sketchy is some cases, being as how people are trying to get a clear idea of events that occurred long ago, and for which there is often incomplete, conflicting, or unclear evidence. The tops of the extensive squall line were well over 10000ft above me! We were running a three inch drill string on the bottom section of the well and a four inch drill string on the top. We wouldnt need offshore rigs to reach a lot of that oil and gas. Even deeper oil reservoirs have been discovered in the oil window, many of these will be coming on production over the next few years. Actually, the Earth does have a shell, called the crust. Around the Caspian Sea and the Gulf of Mexico sedimentary basins are over 15,000m deep. Several sciencey websites also described it as the deepest oil well in the world and/or reposted the Fuel Fix infographic: And it generated hilarious comments like this: Remember folks: oil may be found 13 km deep but oil thats of biotic origin! For years, this concept has served well as a working hypothesis for earth scientists. My name is Bertha Martinez-Carmona and I am here to help you find YOUR home and listen to your needs to best assist you! Its possible that crude oil-like substances can form at higher temperatures however, producible volumes of oil havent been found below the oil window. The place on the East coast called the Appalachian mountains has been, over billions of years, the site of numerous cycles of uplift, orogeny, erosion, etc. Its locked up in the API vault in between the perpetual motion machine and the formula for turning water into gasoline . Drilling time and depth improved with the addition of steam power and tall, wooden derricks. For 20th Centurys final quarter the Basin remains the frontier of deep drilling technology centered on Elk City, Deep Gas Capital of the World. At least it is easier than ever to check stuff, but the problem is, one has to have the idea that something is wrong or at least dubious, in order to make a decision to check. I ask this in the context of modern fracking technology, such as might be employed in the UK in Lancashire, if the political hurdles are ever overcome (which I now doubt they ever will be). Mrs. Rogers was born in Halifax County, VA on July 5, 1940 to the late Albert Nick Stanfield and Bertha McCargo Stanfield and was married to the late James Lowell Rogers. Those that hit one of the deep productive zones had an extremely long production life for a gas well, and still had all the remaining upper zones remaining to complete in the future. Related: Forget Tesla, This Is The Most Impressive Electric Vehicle Of The Year. Jackson, TN 38305 I worked for Enserch from 1981-1997. In a note of totally unrelated trivia: Lone Star Producing became . Uplift occurs by any of several mechanisms. That guy was brave. Blasphemy! Excuse my ignorance, but how does a liquid crack? abiotic theory of oil formation. It was picked up by Internet news sites like Business Insider, The worlds deepest oil well is over 40,000 feet deep Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist Mar. At the same time as rocks are being lifted up into mountain ranges, erosional processes are wearing them down again. Dr. Bertha Alarcon Vargas, DDS, is a General Dentistry specialist practicing in Pomona, CA with 33 years of experience. Since that strain was always to the left, the die gradually cut a thread in the stuck cable tool. My thought would be that the molten sulfur was either gaseous or liquid hydrogen sulfide or even sulfur dioxide. Many more wells need to be drilled into a chalk reservoir than a sandstone reservoir because of the properties of the reservoir rock. The first oil well drilled in Texas in 1866 was a little over 100 feet deep: the No 1 Isaac C. Skillern struck oil at a depth that, from todays perspective, is ridiculously shallow. While the Chayvo wells are impressive in terms of measured depth, they arent particularly deep. This quote from Arrhenius establishes the fact that the Greenhouse Effect, far from being a misnomer, is so-called because it was originally based on the assumption that an atmosphere and the glass of a greenhouse are the same in their workings. 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