Heating of Oil Shale creates an overturn event deep beneath the soil. The amount of energy coming up from the core is estimated to be 65mw, or .065 watts per square meter. Using this we can calculate the amount of energy that has been accumulating in the region from the rising heat alone.
There are 2,589,990 square meters to one square mile and at .065 watts per square meter, there is 168,339 watts per square mile. The oil industry is currently operating, in the Bakken Region on the US side, 12,000 square miles and have been operating since 2007.
At 168,339 watts per square mile, and 12,000 square miles of operation, there would be more than 2 billion watts, or 2 gigawatts of power every hour. Watts is calculated per hour, so this converts to 48 gigawatt hours per day, or 17.52 terawatt hours per year. Over the course of 10 years this would be 175.2 terawatt hours of energy stored beneath the surface due to the artificial overturn to date. This is more than the entire energy used by human activity around the world for a year. "In 2014, world primary energy supply amounted to 155,481 terawatt-hour." This accounts for only the energy from the core that is being stored beneath the Williston region and does not include the energy being injected, this would have to be added to this calculation.
There are 2,589,990 square meters to one square mile and at .065 watts per square meter, there is 168,339 watts per square mile. The oil industry is currently operating, in the Bakken Region on the US side, 12,000 square miles and have been operating since 2007.
At 168,339 watts per square mile, and 12,000 square miles of operation, there would be more than 2 billion watts, or 2 gigawatts of power every hour. Watts is calculated per hour, so this converts to 48 gigawatt hours per day, or 17.52 terawatt hours per year. Over the course of 10 years this would be 175.2 terawatt hours of energy stored beneath the surface due to the artificial overturn to date. This is more than the entire energy used by human activity around the world for a year. "In 2014, world primary energy supply amounted to 155,481 terawatt-hour." This accounts for only the energy from the core that is being stored beneath the Williston region and does not include the energy being injected, this would have to be added to this calculation.