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Posted on 02/09/2026 9:36:24 AM PST by Libloather
In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli used a tube of mercury to first measure pressure. In 1897, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine with financial help from the Krupp family, financiers of the Third Reich. Four thousand years ago, the Egyptians invented the pump. Collectively, the above are the bedrock of fracking.
In 1949, Haliburton performed the first frack job ever. In 1865, E.A. Roberts received a patent for loading a torpedo with nitroglycerin and dropping it into shallow Pennsylvania wells.
Fracking is science, but not a dark one. To date, there have been about 2,000,000 frack jobs in the U.S. My company alone has done thousands of them without incident. Yet, the public has been slow to catch on, or is suspicious, or distrusting. That is mostly a byproduct of the culture wars and the rich deceiving the poor, but more on that below.
By process, rock mechanics determine the pressure needed to fracture an oil and gas formation. Completions engineers use that data to calculate fracture pressure and propagation, the amount of frac slurry required, and at what rate it should be pumped. A frack company then mobilizes on-site alongside a wireline company. Wireliners isolate the wellbore a few hundred feet at a time into "stages," shooting 20 or 30 holes through the casing and then pull off. The frac fleet starts in with a mix of water, sand and chemicals that they pump down the vertical section of the wellbore, a mile or two deep, and then out into the horizontal section for another two, three, or four miles. Most shales are pumped at 3,800 gallons per minute against surface pressures of 10,000+/- psi.
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I have participated in and been on location on hundreds of fracs around the country. It is safe. the Formations are protected from contamination. It is very expensive, but it allows a producer to drill many wells and increase recovery out of rock that would not otherwise produce. There is enough oil and gas to supply the world for hundreds of years. Bank on it. I did.
teeman8r wrote: “there is more water under the surface than on it... and we do not want it to resurface.”
IIRC my Bible correctly, it was a real disaster the last time those waters resurfaced.
Back when I was a child living in Oklahoma oil fields, fracking was done with nitroglycerin. About five miles from where I lived two frackers were killed loading the ‘torpedo’ with nitro. No one knew what had happened. No body parts were found.
The Krupps were steelmakers who, incidentally, first made their fortune exporting railroad wheels to the US. The three interlocking circles used as a Krupp trademark (now Thyssen-Krupp) are symbols of rail wheels, not gun barrels, as is often asserted. They did make heavy guns in both WWI and WWII, including the Paris Gun and the huge "Karl Gustav" used in the siege of Sebastopol in WWII.
As far as the Third Reich goes, the then head of the family chain-smoked Camels and in 1939, seeing where the winds were blowing, had a whole room in the family mansion stuffed with cartons of Camels.
We’ve been using funky little barbells as proppant instead of sand. Same ability to keep cracks open, but easier for fluid to go around.
Works better but not sure it’s worth the expense.
I think it may find it’s best use in lower flow/viscosity formations.
Where I live in Alabama it’s common to buy and sell property without owning the mineral rights. The steel and coal companies bought tons of property in the past, then sold portions of the property years later. When they sold they put in the sell contract that they’d maintain the mineral rights. So the house and land (1.5 acres) I bought two decades ago had a clause that I wasn’t buying the mineral rights of the land. The owner of the home before me never had mineral rights, nor will I have mineral rights to sell when I eventually downsize and sell my home to the next owner.
There’s a great miniseries on Netflix on how Germany paid for rearming. Talks about the roles of the big industrial families.
It was a giant off books deal. Reminds me of the federal reserve and treasury printing money.
STARBUCK!!
Guess he was hoping the war would end before the Camels ran out ...
When the oil runs out...there is plenty of liquid methane deep off the atlantic coast.
Slant Drill Baby, I’ll Slant Drill you!
I wondered if someone would post verbiage from Landman. That was a great episode.
He may have still has a few cartons in 1945.
I love it.
The Earth is comprised of 78% water, and you are concerned about "our water"?
Have you ever seen a desalinization plant in operation?
Of all of the resources on the planet, water is in abundance.
It rains every day because moisture evaporates and then comes back down.
Ingenuity is the mother of necessity.
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