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2017-03-18 Arabia

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-18 14:19|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 The first go round required purchasing the fracking trucks, etc.. With plenty to go around now, maintenance and operations costs is manageable at lower barrel prices.

Posted by Nero White 3083 2017-03-18 14:34|| 2017-03-18 14:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Ain't the free market grand?

Good thing Obumble didn't figure out a way to tax it to death.

Posted by Bobby 2017-03-18 14:57|| 2017-03-18 14:57|| Front Page Top

#3 The Democrats will struggle to find some way mess up fracking. I think though that Trump is leading up to an Andrew Jackson moment on them all.

Posted by Jeasing Creque5352 2017-03-18 15:34|| 2017-03-18 15:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Besides what Nero White commented on in new fracking conditions this time around, we have a President that encourages this type of enterprise and development. With this one-two punch, OPEC gets up against the ropes, having to dig into their financial assets to maintain the status quo for their rubes.

It is very good news. And as far as the ME oil ticks going back to Bedouins again, that will be difficult because their aquifer left over from the Pleistocene and many springs and oases have dried up from the lowered water table.

It's a good day today, folks.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-03-18 16:56|| 2017-03-18 16:56|| Front Page Top

#5 If the world is a better place to live in 20 years, a large part of the credit will have to go to fracking.

Posted by Iblis 2017-03-18 16:58|| 2017-03-18 16:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Anybody read the definitive report linking fracking and earthquakes?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-18 20:48|| 2017-03-18 20:48|| Front Page Top

#7 I haven't read recent stuff on fracking and earthquakes, but the early stuff was pretty good - and fracking of the rock - pumping a slurry of liquid and proppant at high pressure to generate and propagate a fracture from a well out into the reservoir rock - creates 'earthquakes' far too small to feel, or even detect without very sensitive instruments. However, if the induced fracture intersects an existing fault that is close to the stress needed for it to slip, the pulse of pressure from the frac could trigger a quake, one that would probably have occurred naturally in a geologically short time. I am not aware of any evidence of such actually having happened, but I admit I am not current. There are a class of similar earthquakes that have been documented, though it was not the frac pulse but the far larger volumes of produced water being pumped into disposal wells that triggered them. The disposal wells may be handling water from fracked wells (documented case near FW airport), or any other wells (seem likely in several recent OK quakes), or even industrial process waste water.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-03-18 22:20|| 2017-03-18 22:20|| Front Page Top

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