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To: HiTech RedNeck
Isn’t pipe run down a shaft as well, to carry fracking liquid past the water table? The idea being of course to send the liquid down where it is wanted, and not lose any at higher levels.

The drillshaft is encased by one -- often two courses -- of concrete casing well past the water table. That's in order to block the very circumstance you've posed.

15 posted on 05/13/2012 7:24:06 PM PDT by okie01
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To: okie01

Makes sense to me — plug the hole up so that the fracking liquid actually WILL frack and not just, under pressure, come back up the hole that was drilled.

Maybe short lived radioactive tracers could/should be added to frack liquid just to prove to doubting Thomasinas, once and for all, that no it’s not getting into the water table.


16 posted on 05/13/2012 7:28:21 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Mitt! You're going to have to try harder than that to be "severely conservative" my friend.)
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