Re: Eagle Ford Shale Blow Out
Posted: Thu 29 Aug 2013, 12:29:02
The EF wells only produce a couple of hundred bbls per day don't they? Pretty wimpy stuff for a blow out
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Plantagenet wrote:WOW! That's impressive
Who knew they could get that kinda flow by fracking! Is it oil or NG?
ROCKMAN wrote:BTW I've mentioned areas in Texas where there is a lot of natural methane contamination in the fresh water aquifers. This well is in one of the worst areas. In fact just about 15 miles east a very nice NG field was discovered in the fresh water aquifer at 240’.
Proving it happens quite often will never stop the critics from pretending it is only because of neglect, negligence, mismanagement or is somehow caused by BP safety policies.
A point for folks who haven't heard it before: you can frac a shale until the cows come home but if you don't tap into a naturally existing fracture you won't make a well. The shale rock itself isn't producing all that oil/NG. It is coming from those natural fractures that have taken millions of years to accumulate the hydrocarbons in them.
rockdoc123 wrote:As toProving it happens quite often will never stop the critics from pretending it is only because of neglect, negligence, mismanagement or is somehow caused by BP safety policies.
how does one occurrence in several thousand wells drilled successfully prove that it happens quite often?
Plantagenet wrote:That's a pretty impressive NG (?) blowout from a tight shale --- I must say---- I thought they wouldn't even flow w/o fracking