Posted on 03/22/2012 12:01:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Might require more then one rope. :)
They are reuseable. It don't git much more 'green' than that...
Only the exposure of Anthropogenic Global Warming as a hoax/corrupted research/conspiracy to manipulate carbon credits markets (take your pick or 'all of the above') shot the cloven hooves out from under the EPA plan to restrict or regulate gas (and oil) drilling on land out of existence.
The studies on greenhouse gasses produced while drilling and producing wells in the Bakken were done a couple of years ago, putting a halt to drilling on Federal Leases in North Dakota and Montana at the time.
I have been working wells on private leases, and there are plenty of those to drill, yet, but if the AGW thing hadn't been exposed, chances are we'd all be sitting at the house.
That said, consider the devastation, not just on the oil industry, but on all aspects of a booming local economy, of declaring a 'moratorium' on fracking, for instance, and the picture just isn't pretty, unless you are in a position to wait things out, pick up bargain commercial property and hang tough until things pick up again--could be thirty years.
Now it's Katie-bar-the-door as the Environmental Protection Racket is after any and all means, fair or foul, of implementing the agenda of keeping America weak, regardless of the presence of research, or of any valid scientific pretext.
Obama and the rest of his fellow totalitarian travellers know that sooner or later a mother will sell her soul for a crust of bread to feed her starving child, and that is the level to which they want to push, if necessary, to reap the harvest for their Master.
It has nothing to do with science, little to do with energy (except as a tool of policy), but everything to do with control.
The industry uses "frac" as the verb and an adjective and "fracing" as the deverbative adjective. It's short for "fracture", which has no "k" in it.
A frac job is performed by driving up pump pressure on a confined hydrostatic mud column, fracing into the formation, running up pump pressure to propagate the frac set, injecting proppant, and then reversing out frac fluid ("wash water" in some usages, which also applies to coproduced connate fluids during a completion job), flowing the well, and cleaning up while prep to test.
That's real industry usage.
Ping.
BTTT
Pay attention to this one.
I hate making price predictions on FR. There are too many variables that can effect price. In spite of that, I think we will see a real plummet in Natural Gas price this fall, when storage facilities for winter gas reach maximum capacity prior to the winter demand picking up above average well production.
If we have early winter weather, it will likely be put off for a year, then it will be a more severe plunge the next fall.
I don't know what I would do if I caught some enviro wacko damaging my equipment. If I could shoot them. I might.
Just now, first reponders at natural gas compressor site in NE Penn. Springville. Some sort of explosion. Smoke coming from site. Cause of explosion unknown at this time...
I hope they know how to fight a compressed natural gas fire.
Hint: You don’t.
You put out fires that spread and keep it contained.
And you need to know the condition of the block valves to the pipeline if it a major transmission line compressor station.
Less concern if it is a gathering system (lower pressure, lower volume) fire.
I hope they know how to fight a compressed natural gas fire.
Hint: You don’t.
You put out fires that spread and keep it contained.
And you need to know the condition of the block valves to the pipeline if it a major transmission line compressor station.
Less concern if it is a gathering system (lower pressure, lower volume) fire.
That was interesting.
Not only did I double post, but in my ping list, post #32 shows before post #31.
Does yours show it the same?
Yes. Odd...
I heard the report as well.
I would not be surprised to find out this was enviro-terrorists. They hit a Chesapeake facility a few weeks ago for about $300K in damage.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2859914/posts
I missed that earlier attack; thanks for the link.
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