They'll be surprised when they find out its water, sand, guar gum and things you can find at your local grocery store or WalMart:
Posted on 03/20/2015 10:41:22 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Obama administration said Friday it is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations.
A rule to take effect in June also updates requirements for well construction and disposal of water and other fluids used in fracking, a drilling method that has prompted an ongoing boom in natural gas production.
The rule has been under consideration for more than three years, drawing criticism from the oil and gas industry and environmental groups. The industry fears the regulation could hinder the drilling boom, while some environmental groups worry that it could allow unsafe drilling techniques to pollute groundwater. …
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What STATES do in their own territory IS NONE OF THE FEDERAL GOV’Ts BUSINESS..
or should be.. right after the next Civil War..
It’s called soap. I’ll speel it fer yuh. S O A P.
Soap is a surficant and emulsifier. When combined with hot water it makes H20 more than 100 times wetter.
To this they will add sand and gravel to make a heated slurry, which is then piped under high pressure to scrub the oil off of and out of the fractures in rock, under the ground.
“So Soap, Alex, for $800”...
They'll be surprised when they find out its water, sand, guar gum and things you can find at your local grocery store or WalMart:
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So, the petroleum industry is fighting disclosure because they’re afraid that they will have to tell us about all of the harmless grocery store products they use?
I call shenanigans
One driller does not want to give away proprietary information to another driller.
Several States have already made this a requirement, including Texas.
Most typically, the info is put at this public registry.
They aren’t all harmless, but they’re common. You don’t want soap or antifreeze in your drinking water. But the point of fracking is that you put the chemicals down multiple layers of cemented steel pipe into oil and gas zones, not freshwater zones, that are located thousands of feet beneath freshwater.
Disposal of recovered fluids can be a problem, but no more so than from any other industrial facility that is required to treat water for discharge. Options include deep well injection (which in some areas may cause mini-quakes), re-injection for fracking, or processing to remove contaminants. The water cannot be discharged into rivers and streams without cleaning nor disposed in above-ground pits where seepage may contaminate freshwater. Here in the SW oil patch most frac water is injected into the same wells used for disposal of brine water from oil production wells. The latter has been ongoing since the 1950’s with no problems with mini-quakes.
Huh?
Liquid, non sudsing, soap.
I use to sell it in Oklahoma and North East Texas to oil companies.
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