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Permalink Reply by TL DS1 on December 31, 2014 at 7:34

Seems to be for reworking older wells. I don't know if it would work in our tight shale.

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Permalink Reply by William C. Morrison on January 5, 2015 at 10:48

Don't think FROT is trying to surpass Fracking, it sounds more like a water jet cleaning operation.  I note all the gas wells around us flow detergent down the well casing to keep it clear.  Then every so often they have to run a flexible tube down the well bore to clean it out because the detergent is not effective any more.  I would think FROT would be a sort of replacement for reworking the well to clean it up and allow more flow.  No where close to Fracking in my thinking.

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Permalink Reply by Clyde T. Williams on January 6, 2015 at 6:37

Probably one of the Russian technologies for cutting - they did a lot of basic research and tried to get it into product development - lots of mind opening techs.  Plasma-heat/gas cutting, ultra-high pressure cutting, and abrasives - slicing is a form of perforating using hot-gas or hi-pressure abrasive fluid cutting - refineries often use hi-press water jets to cut tank bottoms

On the surface the techs can be controlled and transmission lines are very short....downhole forget most of the techs....try to control 6000+psig going downhole 8000ft and 10,000ft along the laterals...lots of luck - I don't think anyone has the steels to deal with it...plasma-guns at 16,000 MsdDepths and controls same problems...

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Permalink Reply by William C. Morrison on January 6, 2015 at 6:47

Water jet cutting is not new technology, we have been using it for years to cut rocket solid state propellant in to manageable pieces.  You can not use flames any where near rocket propellant.  So the missile cases are cut with high pressure water jets and then the actual propellant is cut up in chunks for burning.  Burning is sort a relative term, some of it is extremely violent just short of detonation.  We, USAF, have gotten rid of tons of rocket propellant by burning.  It is generally done in open pits well away from any people or facilities, just a big hole in the ground.

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Permalink Reply by Lerret on January 6, 2015 at 16:25

Gas-Frac is the only process I know with some possibility of replacing fracking as we know it by using propane as a frack fluid and not slick water.

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