A Reformed Fracker Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Toxic Lies

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An insider's view at the world of Fracking clean up.

Not exactly environmentally friendly.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fracker-exposes-fossil-fuel-industry-toxic-lies-brine-1235009419/

A Reformed Fracker Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry's Toxic Lies

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Still MOAR efficient ways to suck every last drop of oil from every crevice in every rock on the planet!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/new-technology-helps-us-shale-oil-industry-start-rebuild-well-productivity-2024-04-24/

New technology helps US shale oil industry start to rebuild well productivity

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An insider's view at the world of Fracking clean up.

Not exactly environmentally friendly.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/fracker-exposes-fossil-fuel-industry-toxic-lies-brine-1235009419/

A Reformed Fracker Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry's Toxic Lies

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That was a good article. Seems to over emphasize some of the obviously known issues (some of those mentioned have been happening since the 80's, they aren't modern inventions that came along with a 76 year old completion technique.

But a good article. It was difficult to tell sometimes, because of his gypsy work in multiple states, if he knew the differences between which organizations have regulatory primacy in the oil field in the locations he was discussing. You never see EPA folks related to oil field unless there is a big mess (oil on navigable waters being one) in Ohio, but in PA the state environmental agency is the primary enforcer (as opposed to someone like Oil and Gas Division in Ohio), not sure about New York, but they have some of those watershed issues that if you get caught polluting they will certainly hang you, and do regular testing to make sure it isn't happening.

Of the 3, Ohio is the most lax, and amusingly, the article doesn't mention the REAL issue burning up the industry/environmental relationship in that state. Some low end flunky wouldn't know that, but that issue is a doozy and I'm still waiting for it to hit the papers when some lawyer figures it out and a way they can make money suing to stop it. And industry will absolutely HOWL first, and then spend a bazillion dollars fighting it. It is a biggy, and structural in nature, not this someone dumping something here and there and doing a tell all.

There is a better story about NORM from WV, came out a year or more ago that is far more focused on that topic and thorough.

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Still MOAR efficient ways to suck every last drop of oil from every crevice in every rock on the planet!

https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/new-technology-helps-us-shale-oil-industry-start-rebuild-well-productivity-2024-04-24/

New technology helps US shale oil industry start to rebuild well productivity

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Bad conclusion early. Yet another case of some writer having information but not quite figuring out how to use it prior to revealing that in thir words.

This is a correct statement.

While overall output is at record levels, the amount of oil recovered per foot drilled in the Permian Basin of Texas, the main U.S. shale formation, fell 15% from 2020 to 2023, putting it on par with a decade ago, according to energy researcher Enverus.

This is not.

That is because fracking, the extraction method that emerged in the mid-2000s, has become less efficient there. In the technique, water, sand and chemicals are injected at high pressure underground to release the trapped resources.

Enverus certainly has researchers, and they usually aren't sloppy. Answering this question correctly wasn't hard, took about an hour (was in a hurry before this years Super Bowl started). It isn't about the less efficient application of hydraulic horsepower but rather well placement options and the underlying geology available as a play transitions from new acreage build outs and lease holding to more steady state development and refinement of interference patterns in small areas.

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Here is a perfect example of why you have no credibility and get yourself thrown in the cooler so often.

You start off fine responding on topic to a linked article.  You post some information of value.

But then you go and fuck the whole thing up because you can't resist throwing out a gratuitous insult at somebody.

Some low end flunky wouldn't know that,

WTF do you feel the need to demean this person?  Subcontext: You have to puff yourself up as the big expert by comparison to this guy.  At least we know the low end flunky's name and his job and where he worked!  That's more than we can say about you.  You don't enhance your credibility with this kind of disrespect of other people, you reduce it.

For insulting a 3rd party contributor of information to the Diner, you will get another short trip to the cooler.  Next one, I'll start upping the length of the sentences again.

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It isn't about the less efficient application of hydraulic horsepower but rather well placement options and the underlying geology available as a play transitions from new acreage build outs and lease holding to more steady state development and refinement of interference patterns in small areas.

So what?  They are drilling more and are down 15%.  Since every foot of drilling costs money, it's a smaller profit margin.  As long as the margin is enough they can service the debt they have, they'll keep drilling.  When they can't, they'll go BK.  Unless of course they can convince the financiers to roll over the debt in hopes the price they can get for it goes up.  Or convince the banksters production will increase again because they have a new, new fracking tech they are going to try, they just got some MOABs* from the military to blow the living shit out of the bedrock and oil will come spurting out like the cum shot in a John Holmes porn movie from the 70s.  That's what they hire geochemists for.



*- Mother of all Bombs

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