Posted on 02/24/2014 4:58:18 AM PST by thackney
Has NOW decided that media is run by the Dems.
Fracing has been around for a very long time, it is not something that just popped up to save us all.
That combined with directional drilling has been a savior of our oil industry
Fracking has been around since the 1920’s. 2 million fracks so far.
Having designed high pressure equipment for fracking systems, I think I might have a basic understanding of what’s involved.
And Hydraulic Fracturing since the late 1940s.
Sadly, not enough voters have a basic understanding...
Sadly, not enough voters have a basic understanding...
If folks would listen to someone like Bill Wattenberg they would understand tracking very well
Every time I hear the word “fracking,” I think of the newer Battlestar Galactica.
They guys I know that are in the industry would say this author doesn’t know much either because it’s “fracing” (or “frac’ing”) not “fracking”.
To ignore the most commonly used name in public writing would be silly.
Even back in the 1990s, The Oil & Gas Journal referred to the process as Fracking.
As you know, there is a perfectly logical answer to this misleading finding.
Much of Pennsylvania is underlaid by coalbeds. There is such a thing as "coalbed methane" -- methane given of by and associated with coalbeds. These coalbeds -- and the associated methane -- are shallow and often within the water table. Ergo, methane and ethane were often found in Pennsylvania well water before fracking began.
Fracking is conducted in formations at depths well below the water table and where coalbed methane is found. Shale gas and coalbed methane are totally separate and unrelated deposits.
Agreed ... but apparently that k drives a lot if them nuts.
I think it best to embrace the term rather than give environMENTALists power in using the term.
A long time ago, my family had a drilled well, it suddenly started putting out less and less water, so my dad, this was back in the sixties, went to the hardware store and got a stick or two of dynamite.
He took the well cap off, attached a weight from an old window to the stick of dynamite with a three foot cord, lite it, dropped it into the well, and a few minutes after the explosion, around 150 feet or so down, we had more water than we knew what to do with.
My dad was fracking well before the word fracking was ever used. And he was not alone.
Today, thanks to the BATF, the EPA, the FBi, and a bunch of other federal know it alls, frackin a well is no longer an option cause you can’t buy dynamite.
I was talking to a preacher yesterday, we were talking about federal intrusions into our lives, he said; “______ there is a special place in hell for bureaucrats.”
I agree with him, God has to have a special place of torment reserved for the pond scum who have ruined our country and our lives, under the color of law.
I know I'm distracting from your story, but did your Dad put a large hunk of lead in your family water well?
Obviously, the majority of US voters don’t understand much of anything.
For your info, your Dad was following a long established practice.
Fracturing can be traced to the 1860s, when liquid (and later, solidified) nitroglycerin (NG) was used to stimulate shallow, hard rock wells in Pennsylvania, New York, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
http://www.spe.org/jpt/print/archives/2010/12/10Hydraulic.pdf
Window weights are generally cast iron, but even if it were lead, it won’t do a damn thing to water quality, as elemental lead in that form is nearly insoluble in fresh water.
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