Posted on 04/09/2012 12:37:12 PM PDT by Rio
The new-fangled wells are essentially vertical wells with a horizontal bend at the oil-rich lime formation. Fracking, a technique used in Kansas since 1947, pushes water and sand down the hole to open up natural fractures in the rock and increase permeability. That combination of old and new technologies allows producers to extract as much as five to 10 times more oil and gas from a horizontal well than a conventional vertical well. {snip} Drilling has only just begun. Barber and Harper counties are "ground zero" of an oil boom anticipated to spread north across a wide swath of the central Kansas prairie.
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The greencommies must look at this as dark, evil and bad news.
Exactly! It won’t be long until they claim the water is being poisoned and that fracking causes earthquakes. Green whackos are anti-progress and anti-capitalism. It has nothing to do with the environment. That is just cover.
it’s certainly a black day for them.
Not to mention the inevitably higher occurrence of tornadoes coincident with the decrease in rainbow sightings.
Poor Dorothy will hardly be able to recognize the place when she gets back, thanks to all these heartless capitalists.
Gaia is NOT pleased!!
Do you have to own all the land above the horizontal bend to extract oil/gas from it?
DBD, indeed!! This play is sneaking closer to where I have some land with leasing availability. Just waiting for the letter, phone call, smoke signals...whatever.
Should see the expressions on the morons’ faces when I tell them fracking has been around for 70 years.
Should see the expressions on the morons’ faces when I tell them fracking has been around for 70 years.I'm sure they have a pre-programmed come-back. Or they can get back to you with one.
George Mitchell, who is 91 if my research is correct and is the father of Fracking (again if my research is correct) should be a household name and get some sort of Presidential Award. For his dogged determination in getting the techology to work maybe more transformative in a positive sense for our Nation than these toys Steve Jobs gave us that are made in China and get everyone in a zone when they should be with other humans.
Basically, yes. The lease on my property includes any drilling/extraction that occurs under my property regardless of whether an actual well is placed on my property.
“Gaia is NOT pleased!!”
Apparently, she never is.
You noticed that - good for you!
Gaia can never be pleased, lest charlatans, hucksters, and shams like AlGore would suffer a marked loss of income.
It’s just plain “good business” to keep the Earth Goddess ticked off all the time...
No.
Great news for the Kansas economy. I currently live (not in oil though) in West Texas, which is utterly booming right now due to oil. The economy is just fantastic. I hope it expands north into the area near Wichita. They need some economic help with the aircraft layoffs the past couple years. I greatly miss Kansas (think it wouldn’t be so bad if I were further east away from the desert, but still). I hope the economy really picks up there.
They still have a strangle hold on refineries unfortunately. Oil shale had a process where the well was heated also to get the oil to flow better. Someone needs to design an in well refinery to partially refine oil and increase refinery output.
Facts don’t usually affect these people. They are true believers.
So someone else can drill under my land?
Isn’t that what Hussein said the Kuwaitis were doing to Iraq?
No, but you do have to secure royalty agreements from all of the mineral rights owners.
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