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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on January 5, 2012 at 4:04

its not just frack wate rthat has to be disposed of. We operate a well that makes 18 bbls of water for every bbl of oil. Without our SWd we would have to plug the well.

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Permalink Reply by P.G. on January 5, 2012 at 3:00

Isn't injecting waste water similar to fracking only at shallower depths...?

Water can't be compressed so something has to give if it's forced into the earth right?

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Permalink Reply by The_Baron on January 5, 2012 at 4:01

wrong.

 

Normally you inject into a formation that has high perm and porosity. The water moves into the pores in the rock. The trouble begins if you have faults in the formation, the water can act a a lube and cause those faults to slip. It looks like they were injecting to much water under too much pressure  which could be forcing the water into these faults. (my non-geologist explanation)

 

We operate a Salt water well that actually takes the water on a vacuum. We joke that if we knocked off the wellhead it would suck in our atmosphere and we'ed be living like Spaceballs.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by essay on January 5, 2012 at 7:51

i lol'd

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Permalink Reply by Hopeful About Natural Gas on January 5, 2012 at 9:48

Here is Scientific American's story about the Ohio earthquakes.  They are setting up a series of articles to look at earthquakes from fracking.  Not good news, but perhaps important.  There are scientists who says that natgas is not causing the earthquakes, but it will be awhile before things are sorted out.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ohio-earthquake-li...

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