Posted on 05/08/2011 7:03:22 AM PDT by Entrepreneur
My company and many others are seeking a way to clean the “return water” to a safe level and get it back in the aquifer or other suitable end use.
My company is involved in this project with the API and other O&G organizations to get this process “green” and to focus on the end result of the chemicals used.
Many chemicals used are common things we see in our food chain/processes. Guar gum (which right now is so limited because the guar gum trees are not producing enough for both FOOD uses and in the oilfield) as a suspension method for the sand (proppant) and we use plain ol’ grain alcohol as a surfactant (when we can) and we are also using a food grade chemical as a scale inhibitor (when we can).
Formation pressure and temperature dictates what we use.
Companies like ours want to keep our propietary chemicals “mixes” private and profitable, and that is where it gets interesting and raises the concerns with us and our competitors.
Also, Remember most don’t understand that 2 types of fracking one is for natural gas and the other is for oil...similar concept...different science.
Fracking a vertical well is different than fracking a horizontal...
YOU are correct! Job creation for useless govt paper approvers and pushers...that brings NOTHING to the bottom line except higher taxes to support “paper pushing tax collar sucking leeches”...
They need to let INDUCTRY figure out for itself by making the penalties for failing to test and study and insure safety worse than they are.
If a company knows they will actually go to jail and lkose everything if they do half assed testing the then puts people in danger, then they will be careful
Now, it just converts responsibility to government bureacrats to pronounce something safe. And we know how wise they are.
Same with allthe bureacracies. Oversite only, making sure they document everything, and etc.
We spend TRILLIONS trying to conform to often useless government regulations.
Same with the patent office. File a patent for aything you want, let the market determine who was first. To leave it up to idiot bureacrats to research every idea is insane and leaves many inventions off the table.
File it, they stamp it. All records available- so if some one else comes along later with the same patent, you have the ability to enforce it.
Did you look at the panel?
Dr. Stephen A. Holditch has been the Head of the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering since January 2004. He joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1976 and has taught most of both the undergraduate and graduate courses. In supervising more than 100 MS and PhD students, Dr. Holditch has focused his research in areas involving gas reservoirs, well completions, and well stimulation.
It not that the panel is a bad panel. It’s that there is a panel at all. It is a delay tactic. With Dr. Holditch on it, it is an especially good delay tactic.
And if the tire pressure is low, you will air it up at the gas station that uses an electric air compressor. Oh no! Where does the electricity come from to inflate the tires? Fracking natural gas! Let’s tell the Democrats that the way to inflate their tires to the proper pressure is to take a really deep breath, and then we put the pictures up here.
The EPA is not gaining the ground that it had hoped for. Cap and trade is dead. Global Warming has been exposed.
They need to stimulate the political activists in advance of Nov. '12 thus a new created environmental crisis.
The seven-member panel, which does not include any industry executives, will submit a preliminary report in 90 days followed by formal recommendations in about six months...
Way to go there Chu, no deck stacking there buddy...the only group missing are the global warming loons.
Regards,
GtG
Returning the "process" water to the aquifer is more then a little creepy as you get only one chance to get it right. Wisconsin doesn't let you use injection wells to return water used as the thermal source for home heating with a "geothermal" heat pump. You have to lay a closed loop of plastic pipe near the surface with a consequent loss of efficiency. There is nothing chemical about the process just extracting or rejecting heat but they do not allow it.
Regards,
GtG
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