Chemical Use In Hydraulic Fracturing
http://fracfocus.org/water-protection/drilling-usage
Posted on 05/16/2012 3:05:20 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
Liberals love to exploit scientific ignorance.
From Dow Product Safety:
Roughly 75% of the available acetone is used to produce other chemicals, and 12% is used as a solvent.
Applications range from surface coatings, films and adhesives to cleaning fluids and pharmaceutical applications.
Other consumer and commercial applications include:
Lacquers for automotive/furniture finishes
Cellulose acetate films and fibers
Photographic films and plates casting
Coatings and inks
Resin thinners and clean-up operations
General purpose cements
Degreasing and degumming agents
Paint, varnish, lacquer strippers
Nail polish removers
Various cosmetic products
Of course, that leaves out any illicit uses or illegal disposal of chemicals.
Acetone and ethyl acetate volatalize readily at room temperature and volatalize almost completely (no residue). They are great solvents and, because they are minimal chain organics, very few organic surface treatments (paint, polish, dyes) are insoluble in their presence (they strip just about everything). Smelters might use them for oil/grease removal but I doubt it given their flammability profiles.
I pointed out the smelters because the student said they (1) had a metallic taste in their mouth (another culprit might be sulfur compounds from somewhere) and (2) smelled the odor “+like+ nail polish remover” which means an organic solvent of some type.
Smelters would certainly use cold-dip degreasers which would involve a large tank of chlorinated solvents (non-flammable)
But they'd better BEWARE of them HJARNOR! eaters.
It’s the C.H.U.D. in the crud that’ll get ‘em...
Why would you introduce facts and reality into a liberal conversation assigning evil motives to oil companies?
(watching in the wee hours.....i can usually fall asleep, w nature shows on....but not when my blood is boiling.....)
As I stated, hydraulic fracking dates back to the 1920s, and it was developed by Standard Oil Co. (they also developed directional drilling at about the same time)
The pneumatic fracking you refer to, today would likely be liquid nitrogen fracking, IIRC, the nitrogen is mixed with small amounts of water to create a foam. Some propane fracking has been done, but it is not as efficient as other methods of fracking. IMO and from experience, condensate frac jobs are the most dangerous, due to having so much highly flammable liquids stored in frac tanks on location.
No whoops, as I stated, hydraulic fracking dates back to the 1920s, and it was developed by Standard Oil Co. (they also developed directional drilling at about the same time)
The pneumatic fracking you refer to, today would likely be liquid nitrogen fracking, IIRC, the nitrogen is mixed with small amounts of water to create a foam. Some propane fracking has been done, but it is not as efficient as other methods of fracking. IMO and from experience, condensate frac jobs are the most dangerous, due to having so much highly flammable liquids stored in frac tanks on location.
The whoops referenced my mistake, not yours.
The 1860’s fracturing was using explosives, not pneumatics as I incorrectly remembered.
http://www.energyfromshale.org/sites/default/files/Typical-Shale-Fracturing-Mixture-Makeup.pdf
Thanks, even better!
One more guess.
An environmental terrorist is bombing their place with chemicals in order to stop the fracking and oil recovery.
Simple. Because it's psychosomatic.
I was reading in my Alma Mater’s magazine about the fracking, and the guy said that yes there are hundreds of various chemicals used, but that it is primarily water, the propants (sp?) and a FEW chemicals that are designed to work in the environment of each specific well (I imagine things like temperature, pH, etc.).
Pretty much what your research has also shown.
Chemical Use In Hydraulic Fracturing
http://fracfocus.org/water-protection/drilling-usage
OMG - 0.49% of other “stuff”! This is SOOOOOOO much worse than even global warming! (Carbon Dioxide is about 0.04% of air).
I wonder if any of these oil and gas guys have filled a class with it and drank it to show how safe it is? I recall as a kid some guy did that with the raw outflow from the Taconite (iron ore) mill in Minnesota that was running into lake Superior. Although I don’t think I would drink it, I would be just fine with it running through the shale 5,000 feet below my feet.
I don’t recommend drinking every combination of fracking fluid, but some are better than others.
Clean fracking: Moving to replace chemicals
http://money.cnn.com//2011/11/16/news/economy/clean_fracking/index.htm?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher
November 16, 2011
Last summer a Halliburton executive did the unthinkable: He took a big ol’ swig of hydraulic fracturing fluid.
No, he didn’t have a death wish. And yes, he appears to be doing just fine. He did it to prove a point: fracking fluid need not be toxic.
What the exec drank was a new formulation of fracking fluid made with ingredients sourced from the food industry rather than the chemical industry.
As public concern over the controversial practice of fracking mounts, Halliburton and a host of other companies are racing to fill a major void: finding a way of cracking rock to unlock oil and natural gas that is also environmentally benign.
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CleanStim® Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid System
http://www.halliburton.com/ps/default.aspx?pageid=4184&navid=93&AdType=JPTCSTC
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