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Permalink Reply by Hopeful About Natural Gas on August 22, 2011 at 17:58

yum yum!  I wonder when will MacDonald's start selling Big Fracks???

 

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Permalink Reply by DrWAVeSport Cd1 on August 23, 2011 at 4:50

sesport II,

Why do CEOs, who always have opportunities to influence and affect change, always miss the mark?  They all need to go to CEO School and take a class in Persuasion and Propaganda.  They would learn the difference between the two.  Persuasion:  Halliburton CEO Lesar addresses concerns and drinks frac fluid.   Propaganda:  Halliburton CEO Lesar addresses frac fluid saftey...and then calls up an employee to take a "swig."   Point of demonstration: frac fluid safety.  Point of news story ends up: CEO gives "swig" to employee.  CEOs never cease to amaze me! 

Thanks for the find. 

HANG:  Mackie D's "Big Fracks"   LOL

 

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Permalink Reply by Dan Arnold on August 23, 2011 at 9:46

The rabid environmentalists use sensationalism to draw attention to their cause. It is unfortunate that the oil and gas industry has done such a poor job of managing the #2 cause of concern, the chemical composition of fracking fluid, that an individual representative has to go to such lengths.

How will we address the #1 cause for concern, the very process of horizontal drilling and fracturing? The industry is running those brief PR blurbs on television, but they spend less than ten seconds addressing the issue. The water table is up here, we drill down here, end of story. We can do better.

 

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Permalink Reply by BirdDawg, plain ole' idiot on August 23, 2011 at 14:48

I've been known to take a swig. But I ain't going there. But I am not anti-frac.

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Permalink Reply by Clyde T. Williams on August 24, 2011 at 6:22

I remember a long time ago when DDT was the issue and pros would eat DDT powder in front of the cameras and yeah as a powder no problem - as an oil emulsion something quite different...

 

Remember also that it is not the backflow and doesn't have any diesel, acids, biocides, deoxygenators in it... and maybe he did a purge later...

 

Theatrics are always fascinating but show me the chems and their mg/L any day

 

It can't be a frack burger but it can be a DQ fracking shake, and yeah they can be/have been a problem on the surface and downhole. When we put 8000-12,000psi behind them they can be quite a problem...above, in , and below.  I worry more about the backflow with all of the formation goodies...and where things go when pushed past the formation breaking point...

 

What sorts of pressures do they use in the Haynesville at 20,000ft?? 10-15Kpsi??? (remember the DeepWaterHorizon in 5000ft of seawater and 15Kft of formation = >8000psi??  In California we are generally have very shallow/heavy oils (8-10) and 5-6Kpsi is considered fracking pressures at less than 5000ft...

 

Tom

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on August 24, 2011 at 13:18

Why, if you have developed a method of droping the sand from a frack job when it hits a certain PH level, that is high tech. Why give that up after spending millions in developing the process?

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Permalink Reply by Clyde T. Williams on August 24, 2011 at 13:34

All they have to do is tell someone somewhere sometime after using HCl or H2SO4 or Critic Acid on well 12345, no details no quantities, no depths, no number of times....Huh??  Why do you think Perry approved it for Texas....lots of Texas smoke and a few mirrors but the Feds don't understand or know much about it and a well's/play's chemistry..  So the millions are still safe even though others may not be.

 

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Permalink Reply by Bill R on August 24, 2011 at 13:41

Having a Peon take a swig... not a big deal... probably will back fire and cause more issues for Halliburton...

 

If the CEO took a big swig, it might have had a little more fat into the fire for them...

 

However, if the whole group took some and passed some around to the press and other attendants, then that would have made an impact and would have made a statement! 

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Permalink Reply by Clyde T. Williams on August 24, 2011 at 13:52

Me, a peon, in the 1960s ate my spoon of DDT dutifully - no taste as a powder about as meaningful as gulp gum guar, citric acid, and kaolinite - dumb in both cases - probably had a Lone Star afterwards.

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Permalink Reply by Two Dogs, Pirate on August 24, 2011 at 14:23

Clyde, I am 60 years old and been covered with DDT, your post trys to put down the use of this product. Where do you justify the deaths of millions of folks that could have survived  in Africa by the use of DDT?

 

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Permalink Reply by jlgm on August 24, 2011 at 16:33

Then why, as in the case of "Cattlegate," do the companies opt to settle rather than prove themselves in court?  Why did the state fine the them?

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Permalink Reply by Clyde T. Williams on August 24, 2011 at 16:50

DDT is decades old - let's worry about getting them done right for all of us NOW.

We are having our first fracking discussion with Plains in LosAngeles tomorrow...sources of water, pressures to be use/duration, nearest known abandoned wells, but ours are much shallower than the LA wells...8000ft is considered bottom of the world...5-6000psi and 150Kgal/not bbl of water for one frack. It is pass you all's bedtime ain't it??

 

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