Brian Sullivan Fairfield Energy
Successful Industry Professional
Excellent Returns
Brian Sullivan, former CEO of Fairfield Energy, prided himself on pursuing better than average returns for his fellow partners in productive oil and natural gas fields of the Midwest. Many prospectors find themselves with unproductive fields too often, but Sullivan knows how to avoid common risks, and provided many better-than-average returns. Sullivan always worked hard to solve any problems that may come up with oil and gas development, and to work with his partners towards the best returns he can.
Location: Dallas, TX, United States
The Best Oil Exploration Techniques Used by Prospectors
Drilling for oil is a risky and sometimes fruitless exercise. Many prospectors try and fail to find the next huge oil reserve locked deep in the earth. There are many different ways that scientists find oil before they drill. One way is with a geophysical survey. Geophysicists use extremely sophisticated equipment to create pictures of the inside of the earth where they can look for an oil reserve as deep as 30,000 feet. Most geophysical surveys involve sending sound waves into the ground to analyze how the waves bounce off of various geophysical features, such as dense and loose rocks, and hopefully the unmistakable feedback caused by a liquid oil reserve.
Geophysical surveys can also involve equipment designed to test for changes in magnetism and other factors that, when analyzed by a team of geophysical experts, show the signs of an oil reserve. When drilling for oil, prospectors have to worry about three-dimensional characteristics, including forces pushing and pulling on all sides, and various layers of rock that go deep into the earth’s surface. Another tricky problem that prospectors and scientists face when drilling for oil is the constant shifting the crust. Rock moves up and down usually over thousands of years within the earth’s crust, and sometimes this motion causes sudden shifts in the earth’s surface, resulting in earthquakes that may reach the surface or stay underground. Either way, it’s a problem for surveyors.
Brian Sullivan Fairfield Energy, once a part of Fairfield Energy, achieved much in the sometimes risky field of oil and natural gas, but he uses all of the resources at his disposal to pursue the strongest returns possible.
How to Find Oil
In days past, prospectors used crude methods to find oil on a tract of land. They read the signs at the surface and looked for oil seeping from the ground or spreading into a creek. There used to be more guesswork involved in scouting for oil. Some prospectors still drill on untapped land wherever they get a good feeling in the hopes that they strike oil. Today, however, the process of finding and exploiting oil reserves has gotten much more scientific and exact. Today, oil companies employ formally trained geologists to analyze the signs of oil they receive from their sophisticated equipment they use to map the many structures beneath the surface of the ground.
The most common way scientists look for oil is with a seismic survey. Seismic surveys are conducted by sending vibrations deep into the ground and analyzing the reflecting sound waves as they return to the surface. Geologists today can analyze those echoes and determine if there’s oil on the land tract, how much there is, and how far below ground it is. Prospectors then use this information to drill at the correct position to reach the oil. Scientists send sound waves into the earth using either explosives or thumper trucks, which sit on the surface and slam heavy plates into the ground.