Jeez, I just watched tops spinning for 24 minutes....I need to get back to work..

No kidding? That’s where I ended up, midstream is choice right now. Houston based. You?

Fair enough, agree to disagree; I appreciate the calm expression of opinion,especially on this site. Kind of refreshing, honestly

Meh, depends on the chemical. Our main goal during the process was to maintain pH neutrality while minimizing the amount of chemicals that we pumped in.

That is actually more associated with methane migration due to coal seams located close to the surface of the earth. In most of the instances where that happened in the NE, it was actually shown that that particular phenomena occurred prior to any fracing done in the area. Hell, I’ve actually done that myself when I…

The problem isn’t one of horizontal area so much as vertical depth. Most water tables are located 1000 feet or less below ground level. The specific type of well being fraced (no k), are more that 12,000 feet below ground level. Additionally, the layers being fraced are one of several impermeable layers between the…

Mechanical Eng, but good nose. We can be pretty similar haha. I also used to work as a well stimulation engineer

More or less. The primary reason that a hydraulic fracture is more stable than an injection well is twofold. First, the well is much, much deeper. This leads to considerable overburden stress (caused by weight of rock pushing down - think hydrostatic pressure), and horizontal stresses which minimize fracture…

That’s a big negative, sir. a 70 chemical suite would be far too expensive to be worth the time. 7 would be about the maximum.

chemicals, the types of which are protected as industrial secrets

100% agree

Excellent video description of a sleeve job, as well as a more detailed description of the process that I was referring too. It is an incredibly complex process which I feel is far too easily lumped under the hate-wagon term ‘fracing.’ What play are you based out of?

*edited to give props to author for linking to article describing injection wells in detail (last paragraph)*

In their defense, I feel like I have ‘digestive issues’ every time I partake of the Chipotle. I think I need to order more ChiptoleAway.

Some of the engineers that I work are in the process of using an Occulus Rift along with associated 3d CAD files to create a virtual walk through of some our our pipeline and metering stations. I can’t say I’m too interested in this idea for individual parts (as shown), but I have to say that it has some pretty good…

Getting up early for work.

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So, does this mean they are doing away with the 00- agent program?

That’s no moon...

That’s my morning maintenance routine. Keeps my swearing in peak condition