We in Louisiana are leading the way with technology,helping to make the USA energy independent.
And as you can see on the map , we'll be booming in the future while the liberal states keep decaying.
Posted on 09/18/2013 9:29:32 AM PDT by thackney
Green Field Energy Services, which pioneered the use of turbine engines for hydraulic fracturing, has completed its first hydraulic fracturing job powered solely by natural gas tapped from a nearby well.
Working with Pittsburgh-based EQT Corp., the companies used field gas to complete fracturing jobs on a Marcellus Shale well in Pennsylvania, according to a news release from the companies.
The companies completed multiple fracturing stages using pumps powered by natural gas. Hydraulic fracturing pumps fire millions of gallons of water, mixed with sand and chemicals, into rocks deep underground, causing them to crack and release oil and natural gas.
Green Field’s fracturing pumps use retired military helicopter engines that have the capability to run on diesel, natural gas and other fuels.
Green Field, of Lafayette, La., has previously performed fracturing jobs with 100 percent liquefied natural gas, but this was the first time that it had completed work using only gas tapped directly from a nearby well, making the process cheaper.
Some operators, including Apache Corp., have estimated that using well gas, also called field gas, can cut fuel costs by 70 percent. An Apache estimate said that if all fracturing jobs switched to field gas, energy companies could cut their industry-wide fuel costs by $1.67 billion.
These folks are proving me wrong.
They must be doing some processing of the well gas on site.
American Ingenuity.
Thack I run my AJAX motors off the casing gas but I do run it through a small scrubber tank first.
Green Field, of Lafayette, La.,
We in Louisiana are leading the way with technology
I know there can be a lot of variation in the composition of well/field/casing gas.
I suspect this would not work at all wells but probably enough to be worthwhile.
Cool!
And this, folks at NPR, is what WE call sustainability.
We in Louisiana are leading the way with technology,helping to make the USA energy independent.
And as you can see on the map , we'll be booming in the future while the liberal states keep decaying.
Not included in that map is the cline shale in West Texas. Check it out.
It seems like with all these shales Texas and Louisiana alone could make the USA energy independent soon. That is if the democrats , the Obama democrat and the Obama EPA leave us alone.
Liberals and Mexicans are moving to Texas because it is booming(partly because of the oil boom). Hopefully they won’t move to Louisiana and we can remain prosperous and free here.
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