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Permalink Reply by Lerret on February 3, 2012 at 14:57

explain petro fracking please?

 

This is going to increase the cost to all producers in the area.

Permalink Reply by Polly Ann Foote on February 3, 2012 at 17:16

http://www.aogc.state.ar.us/PDF/H-1%20FINAL%202-17-2012.pdf

The above is the soon to be implemented order of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission as to disposal wells.  It appears to be more than a moratorium. However, what they have done, if I read it correctly, is say that any oil and gas company that has drilling rights somewhere else can use  any existing abandoned wells or drill new ones as injection wells.  I fear that means all that fracking fluid is going to be hauled to Columbia County.  Since Southwestern has leased thousands of acres in Columbia county they should have no trouble finding places to inject.  We already pass these trucks daily.

Permalink Reply by Bradley McWilliams on February 4, 2012 at 12:00

Ms. Foote, I don't think there is a lot of concern about SWN hauling fluid from the F'ville to south AR.  They are doing everything they can to stop hauling water to any disposal, let alone one nearly two hundred miles away.  At present, they recycle nearly all of their flow back water, and are quickly getting to the point of reuseing a substantional amount of produced water.  I don't know who's trucks you are seeing down there, but it's not SWN's.

Permalink Reply by Polly Ann Foote on February 4, 2012 at 14:15

http://www.magnoliareporter.com/news_and_business/local_news/articl...

It may not be SWN but county judge Atkinson says some of it is coming from the Fayetteville shale area in central Arkansas.

 

Permalink Reply by Bradley McWilliams on February 6, 2012 at 9:06

That could be, but I would think the current price of gas doesn't allow for hauling water that far, at least not for long...