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.
They haven’t mentioned anything about water used in drilling, cement, acidiizing, drilling out any plugs, etc. Just the frac job. I have no idea how many zones they can produce from out there, but here in Texas often times more than one, though some are fairly small.
From the article I surmise the author doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
Some of what’s pumped gallon wise during a frac is sand and gel, not just water. But at today’s prices, I’m sure the benefits out weigh the price of disposal.
-— The production from the field is going to push it all back out.
That makes sense.
-— 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. -—
I thought the fracking water was held in a retention area and later reclaimed. Is injecting it into an inactive well the normal means of disposal?