Posted on 07/30/2013 6:37:12 AM PDT by Lorianne
Actually, there are companies which frac using compressed natural gas, too. It could be do-able, even without millions of gallons of water.
...the company’s 16 million acres of land... contain between 133 billion and 233 billion barrels of shale oil... just 3.5 billion barrels, worth almost $359 billion... at today's oil price, will be able to be recovered.
They have an ocean a few miles away.
“Actually, there are companies which frac using compressed natural gas, too. It could be do-able, even without millions of gallons of water.”
Actually those companies are using LPG gas not Methane propane and butane are the “gases” used at the pressures of fracturing they are liquids which is necessary to carry the propants which are mostly specific grain sized sands.
Hydrofracing can use salt water if the gelling agents and additives are formulated to take into account the salts in the water its hell on the pumps and pipes though so naturally one would want fresh water or brackish at best.
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