-— According to the article, it takes as much water to frack a well as to meet the needs of a family of four. Is that a lot? How much oil and gas would they get from that well? -—
It’s hard to know what they mean. Most of the water is reclaimed, but a percentage remains deep underground in the formation, thousands of feet below the water table, where it will stay virtually forever. I don’t know how big that percentage is. It’s the only practical downside to fracking.
The water used in the hydrofrac comes out. Most of it comes out in the hydraulic fracturing process. What little remains after that point comes out in the production. It is pushed in from the play to the well bore. The production from the field is going to push it all back out.
Where hydrofrac water is left in the ground is the disposal of the water along with produced water during production. It is injected into deep formation, but this is not an injection into a producing well.
