Your problem is you dont know the truth they drill down 2500 feet ground water does not exist below 1000 feet ask anyone who drills for water????
Yes, I must be very uninformed on the topic of producing oil and gas. I hope you can help me learn more.
they drill down 2500 feet
Sometime more, sometimes less. Most of the shale fields are this deep r more.
ground water does not exist below 1000 feet
If you mean potable drinking water, I believe that is true. Too much salt content as you get lower, but there is certainly water lower, it is in the oil/gas fields as well.
Groundwater most definitely exists at depths of 2,500 feet (or even more).
Actually, I have drilled for water extensively throughout the Piedmont region of Virginia.
In most areas, if the rock fractures at depths up to 500 ft do not contain water, then there is little point in drilling deeper.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, though, and after drilling 5 or 6 600’+ ‘dry holes’ in one area we decided to keep going. We ended up hitting a water-producing fracture zone at about 850 ft, and another at 1050 ft. The water was very ‘hard’, but quite good quality otherwise. That was more than 20 years ago, and as far as I know, the well is still in use.
I do prefer 350-500 ft deep wells, though. Much less expensive.