[Dusty Road]

Trying to see an advantage to this or a purpose and I see none, it would be far cheaper for me to bring in caliche for roads or pads. By the time you've seperated the cutting from the mud you don't have allot left. As far as spreading it over a wide area we do not we just roll the pit walls over, plant over the top and we're done. I see them with a backhoe digging out the pit and that seems foolish, the time to seperate would be during the drilling process with a shaker. Again I repeat theres not that much solids remaing after completion, certainly not enought to build a usable pad let alone roads going to it. Looks more like somebody is chasing grant money!

[Dusty Road]

let me also add that as a Texas Boy he should know better than to say what he did, the RRC does nor require us to remove the material. There are specific guidelines as to how we deal with reserve pits and none of it requires removing material from the site. Some states are different, NM won’t even let me dig pits so I use shell shakers and steel mud pits. This might make a little sense in that process.

[EERinOK]

I am tying to figure that out too.

I just roughed out 10000 feet of 8.75” hole and another 10000 feet of 6.25” hole, recovering say 100% usable rock. that would be a typical Bakken horizontal. One could never recover 100% of the cuttings as usable, some are ground to dust, but that might be offset by out of gauge hole.

that’s right at 6300 ft3 of material. If the road is 16 ft wide and had 2 ft of fill, then you could make 200 ft of road. or a 60 by 60 foot pad, enough to park the drillers trailers, but not build a location.

I am not against innovation & business ventures in the patch, but I’m really struggling with how this makes anyone a buck.