[Smokin' Joe]

Nail polish remover? That's acetone, and not used in drilling fluids (WAY too much of an explosion/flash fire hazard, and the crews would be sick, too).

Note, too, the article confuses drilling (cutting the wellbore) with fracking (a different process in which the already drilled wellbore is fractured at depth by using fluid and a proppant--usually sand--to make fractures and shove the proppant in to hold them open).

I hope they find the problem, but I'd look in the clinic basement and storage areas of the clinic for leaking chemicals rather than waste my time blaming a drilling rig.

Maybe someone has a drug lab nearby and is looking to blame the oil and gas inductry.

[saganite]

Smokin Joe

I googled acetone as a fracking agent and came up with some articles that say its used for such. Of course I bow to your knowledge but are the articles wrong?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: Nail polish remover? That’s acetone ::

Some remover is made with Ethyl Acetate, a known upper-respiratory irritant. And your right, neither is used in fracking fluids.

I wonder of there is a need for Acetone or Ethyl Acetate in the “smelting” business.

[Oatka]

I hope they find the problem, but I'd look in the clinic basement and storage areas of the clinic for leaking chemicals

But they'd better BEWARE of them HJARNOR! eaters.