Posted on 08/22/2017 9:58:55 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Russian scientists and local oil field services companies claim to have created a technology for thermochemical gas fracturing that could be an alternative to hydraulic fracturing and could increase oil production by between 1.7 and 6 times, Russia’s news agency RIA Novosti reports, citing the University of Tyumen’s press service.
The chemicals react and emit heat and gas, which makes extraction easier and lifts well productivity, according to the scientists and researchers.
The other upside in the technology, the Russians claim, is that the main component in the chemical reactions is ammonium nitrate, which is often used as fertilizer.
According to Professor Konstantin Fedorov, Director of the Institute of Physics and Technology at the University of Tyumen and the scientific consultant on the project, the improved well productivity effect lasts between 300 and 1,000 days. Production increases by between 1.7 times and 6 times compared to the initial output level, although the scientists have seen tests with production increases of 10 to 20 times.
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Just tilt the continent up and attach a spigot to the bottom.
Like the old torpedo bombs just for fracturing wells in the past?
Apparently these new method creates a lot of heat and pressure that lasts a long time.....................
American made. The ZERO HOUR BOMB COMPANY of Tulsa. Now known as Zebco.
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Chemicals? That should improve the quality of water?
Frucking?
In a previous life I worked for Chesapeake Energy. My all time favorite Aubrey McClendon moment.... as an environmentalist feminazie was really going to pin Aubrey down for being such a “bad guy” for using such dangerous chemicals in the frack process. Aubrey says.... “you have chemicals and solutions under your sink that you can’t drink. Chemicals that will kill you! But yeah.... we agree with you 100%.... you DON’T want to drink Frack Water. We don’t want you to drink it either”
Might be the kind of stuff to inexpensively cook out the oil from oil shale kerogen in the green river basin.
The key word is cheap/inexpensive.
Seems like adding HEAT to the GROUND would advance (unfounded, ridiculous claims of) GLOBAL WARMING.
The same idiots that proclaim fracking as harmful to the earth are the same idiots that want to store carbon dioxide underground................
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