Posted on 04/02/2015 8:46:55 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Edited on 04/02/2015 10:06:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
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These guys are morons. Fracking has been going on since 1949 and approximately 600,000-700,000 American oil and gas wells have used the technique since.
Now, if you want to talk about horizontal drilling, now that is a different subject.
All, actually I am wrong. Hydraulic fracturing has been around since 1949 when the first well was fraced in Oklahoma.
The other fracturing technique was using explosive deviced dow the drilled hole, from dynamite to nitroglycerin.
Why does not MT appear on the map?
Because we have just begun to discover and exploit all the available Gas and Oil in this country. We have more oil locked in shale formations than we know what to do with.
We have become energy independent and it has saved us from a massive depression, so far. Obama and the Left hate it so much they try to stop it at every turn.
My understanding is that eastern MT is being fracked. It should be on the map. PA too.
You are of course correct.
But in common parlance “fracking” is used to refer to horizontal drilling combined with various other high-tech methods of freeing tight oil.
It’s not entirely accurate, but you waste your breath arguing against common usage.
Eastern Montana is in the Williston Basin, the same geologic province as Western North Dakota and even part of South Dakota, not to mention parts of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
For some reason the media have renamed the region "the Bakken" after one of many geological formations there, and one which outcrops nowhere (it is entirely in the subsurface). Now, while that makes as much sense as calling the Appalachians the Beekmantown (or the Knox further south), that doesn't stop the scribblers from doing it.
The Bakken boom really started in Eastern Montana (with horizontal wells not in the shale but the middle member of the Bakken Formation), in what became the Elm Coulee Field in Richland County in 1999. It didn't really take off until roughly 2005/6 in North Dakota, when some very good wells were drilled near Stanley, ND. It spread rapidly from there.
I think it is the top fracking states. Ohio is being fracked quite a bit around Youngstown. I just think these are the top states.
The majority of all wells will get a hydraulic fracturing treatment sometime in the life. Too many pretend that only shale play wells are hydraulically fractured.
By some estimates, up to 90% of today’s producing wells were stimulated by fracking.
https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/fossil-power/fracking-a-look-back
I agree. Just noting that the way language works is that words change their meaning based on the way they are commonly used.
I could be wrong, but from what I can see, the term “fracking” is presently used primarily to reference the complex of modern methods developed over the last 10 years or so.
I see it misused every day, even trying to use it as an adjective to describe oil and/or wells. Lots of people seem to like to use words they don’t understand to sound “up to date” with technology.
Quite right. I don’t approve of misuse of technical terms, I’m simply nothing that from a linguistic POV it doesn’t matter if you or I disapprove. :)
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