tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-811591306049850735.post3094351190255553176..comments2024-03-26T11:29:49.221-07:00Comments on Frack-Land: Image of the Day: Zombie ImagesDr JVhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14105249808644069495noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-811591306049850735.post-48250426798441609302023-08-18T17:57:42.464-07:002023-08-18T17:57:42.464-07:00Thanks for a greatt readThanks for a greatt readJialinhttps://memoirsofjialin.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-811591306049850735.post-88227578664232226332016-03-28T16:07:27.348-07:002016-03-28T16:07:27.348-07:00I find your article valuable, but something key is...I find your article valuable, but something key is missing: the Jonah Field IS a fracking site. Ok, fracking is not new. OK, there is no shale gas here. But tell your reader that this landscape they see is the direct result of hydraulic fracking, and that this is the reason for such a small spacing between drillings. Then you will convey the full info and the reader will learn and form an opinion. Daniel Garcia-Castellanoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02249835207972834131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-811591306049850735.post-12701434824168337882015-03-05T01:03:44.458-08:002015-03-05T01:03:44.458-08:00"The resource is trapped in shale" - no ..."The resource is trapped in shale" - no it isn't. Read the links to this article. The Jonah gas field is a tight sandstone. <br /><br />"It's not all in one big pocket" - this is true of almost every oil and gas field, conventional or otherwise. Natural geological features, such as faults, impermeable layers or other sedimentary structures, often break up the productive intervals. If "it's not all in one big pocket" is a criteria for "unconventional gas" then almost every oilfield is unconventional. <br /><br />"it needs to be stimulated with fractures" - again, true of a huge number of conventional oil fields. Fracture stimulation (using explosives) was first developed in 1865. Hydraulic fracture stimulation was first developed in 1947. If hydraulic fracture stimulation, regardless of volume or type of well, is a definition of unconventional gas, then we have been producing unconventional gas since the dawn of the oil industry. <br /><br />The new technologies that have led to the unconventional gas boom are: 1 - drilling into and producing gas from shale rocks. Jonah is not a shale reservoir. 2 - using horizontal drilling. Jonah does not use horizontal drilling. 3 - using larger water volumes with reduced chemical concentrations (so-called "slick water"). Which Jonah does not do. <br /><br />More to the point, anti-fracking groups use this image to scare people about what shale gas fracturing would look like if it were to develop in the UK. This is scaremongering, and if they know what they are doing, it is a lie. <br /><br />Because Jonah doesn't use horizontal wells, a large number of verticals are needed, which takes up a large amount of land area, hence what you see in the photo with well pads as far as the eye can see. Instead, with horizontal wells the gas could all be extracted with a single well pad, so instead of the many pads you see there using modern unconventional gas technology, instead of the conventional tech used at Jonah, there would just be a single well pad in that photo. <br /><br /><br /> Dr JVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105249808644069495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-811591306049850735.post-923790652671436782015-03-04T17:53:16.594-08:002015-03-04T17:53:16.594-08:00Errrr that's an unconventional field. The reso...Errrr that's an unconventional field. The resource is trapped in shale and it needs to be stimulated with fractures. It's not all in one big pocket - literally the definition of unconventional gas. Stop telling lies plz :)Nathannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-811591306049850735.post-51686313169764771252014-09-28T14:37:55.732-07:002014-09-28T14:37:55.732-07:00There can be no excuse for the BBC's deliberat...There can be no excuse for the BBC's deliberate misrepresentation of the vertical scales.<br /><br />Every single 'ratio' is designed to be adversely misleading:<br /><br />The ht of the above-ground apparatus.<br /><br />The depth of the water table.<br /><br />The depth between water table and shale.<br /><br />It is little more than propaganda, and it's creator & the picture editor who chose it should both be reprimanded.<br /><br /><br />Joe Publichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07829909061904690380noreply@blogger.com