Alaska is about to get fracked up

[grntuscarora]

5. I thought so.

Last edited Thu Mar 1, 2012, 09:37 AM - Edit history (1)

That was then:

“The first experimental treatment to “Hydrafrac” a well for stimulation was performed in the Hugoton gas field in Grant County, Kansas, in 1947 by Stanolind Oil (Fig. 1). A total of 1,000 gal of naphthenic-acid and- palm-oil- (napalm-) thickened gasoline was injected, followed by a gel breaker, to stimulate a gas-producing limestone formation at 2,400 ft. Deliverability of the well did not change appreciably, but it was a start.”

“With the advent in 1953 of water as a fracturing fluid, a number of gelling agents were developed.”

http://www.jptonline.org/index.php?id=481


This is now:
"Water is also used in hydraulic fracturing where a mixture of water and sand is injected into the formation at a high pressure to create small cracks in the rock allowing gas and oil to freely flow to the surface. Hydraulic fracturing of a typical Chesapeake horizontal deep shale natural gas or oil well requires an average of 4.5 million gallons per well."
http://www.hydraulicfracturing.com/Water-Usage/Pages/Information.aspx

1000 gallons of fluid per well in 1947 to 4.5 million gallons per well today. I don’t think this is grandma’s fracking we’re talking about anymore.