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To: Smokin' Joe

Yes I know what fracking is...congradulations you are able to read a post and find an error...you must be so proud,


78 posted on 05/23/2015 6:31:28 AM PDT by ontap
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To: ontap
Actually, no, I'm not proud. I have spent the last 25 years working horizontal wells, and throughout the whole time this has been news, I have tried my darndest to teach people the difference between drilling and fraccing, oil rigs and pump jacks, and clarify a number of fundamental terms from the oil industry for folks who do not work in the oil patch.

I confess I have been a dismal failure.

I still see fresh reports in the media which call fraccing a drilling technique, and which demonstrate such fundamental misusage of basic terminology they belie a complete ignorance of how oil wells are drilled and completed. That is either the result of 'learning' from people who have no clue, either, or the result of refusing to do basic research.

Those mistakes ring out to people in the industry like someone describing auto repairs to a mechanic which would involve putting the fuel injectors back in the transmission or changing out the turn signal blinker fluid filter.

Sorry to have been so abrupt, but in the interest of intelligent discussion I will continue to call out such errors where I find them.

79 posted on 05/23/2015 6:47:46 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: ontap

“Yes I know what fracking is...congradulations you are able to read a post and find an error...you must be so proud,”

The fact that you can’t even spell it makes it hard to believe your comment. There is no K in fracture, but no problem it’s a common mistake made by those with little knowledge of the business.


80 posted on 05/23/2015 7:32:34 AM PDT by Dusty Road (")
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