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To: thackney

No one said the term ‘fracking’ was for the entire industry. The term does encompass most drilling in shale formations.

Like it or not the term has become general usage even for drillers in the Bakken.

I am not going to wag a finger like you and other hard-headed purists on this thread in a ‘mark your territory’ activity like dogs and fire hydrants. It is easy to sense that the two or three detractors on this thread have no fracking experience.

The term is fracking and it is now widely used in the field and in media. It’s also called ‘fracing’ without the k; look it up.

Fracking in its current form is relatively new regardless of those who say it was used decades ago. The complete technology used today is highly evolved to what it was decades ago. Fracking technology today is the driver behind all the drilling in the shale. That fact is indisputable.

Fracking as a term is used to generally describe the renaissance in American oil production. It has nothing to do with those that read the Oil & Gas Journal and pretend to be frack experts. I am not an expert and I don’t need to be. My company is one of many owners and dealmakers that axquire and move ‘frack oil’ to end-users. We also do the same for crude, LNG and refined product but our main business is water purification which is why we are in the Bakken in the first place. I am not going to tell other principals in my company to stop using the word ‘frack’ just because some yahoos on a conservative forum have a hard-on for their past life experience in the oil patch but who have no experience using frack tech.

So sit back in your easy chair and real Oil & Gas and pretend you are still in the game. I sense you are far removed from it.

This thread is about environmentalists using whatever means they can to shut down fracking. It’s not about thumping one’s chest crying “Look at me! Look at me! I know! I know!” and other unassorted bullshit.

You can take it to the bank that environmentalists and foreign interests want to shutdown fracking wherever they can. That’s a fact.


253 posted on 04/15/2014 6:43:58 AM PDT by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Hostage
You can take it to the bank that environmentalists and foreign interests want to shutdown fracking wherever they can. That’s a fact.

Who is funding them? I suspect you'd have to look to Riyadh for answers.

254 posted on 04/15/2014 6:46:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Hostage
No one said the term ‘fracking’ was for the entire industry.

Your words:

My involvement spans from the wellhead to terminal storage and exchange or transport. I call the entire activity ‘fracking’

I guess you need to explain again what you think fracking includes and excludes.

My company is one of many owners and dealmakers that axquire and move ‘frack oil’ to end-users.

You are writing/receiving checks, and promoting ignorance.

So sit back in your easy chair and real Oil & Gas and pretend you are still in the game. I sense you are far removed from it.

I'm wearing my FRC's today because I'll be in a NGL plant again today. I'm the lead engineer for several projects. These days I spend most my time these days in midstream work but I have worked in production fields in the Middle East, Alaskan North Slope, Texas and California. I have some engineering design and construction experience in Chem Plants and Refineries but that is a more limited experience.

As long as you write false statements and promote ignorance on Free Republic, I'll call you on it. I could care less the language you want to use internally and pretend you are part of the business.

257 posted on 04/15/2014 8:36:36 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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