![]() ![]() Technically that's an EPA violation, but with something like 6 regulators covering all of America's oil fields good luck catching them. But when the crew rigs down, the extremely concentrated chemicals in their hoses are regularly dumped out on the ground. When shit's pumped down there, the only way back up is through the pipe of an oil well. What they DON'T want you to talk about is SURFACE contamination.įrom the ground down is pretty secure. If it did, it should be headline news because it's a smoking gun. AFAIK, That dye hasn't come back up since. Plus, from time to time we even had guys injecting nuclear tracking dye into what we were pumping down so it could be proven that the water was coming up through the water table. Even under the most freakishly extreme condition you couldn't get above 6000ft below. We knew how big cracks we were making were, and could calculate the tallest they could possibly be. The bosses I worked with loved it when environmentalists complained about the chemicals coming up from the well because it was super easy to disprove. Water tables stop well short of 1000ft below. The oil wells I was on were drilling horizontally (and sucking oil from) around 10,000 feet below. At a $25mil++ investment, there's alot of very rich eyes with very explicit contractual wording making sure they aren't losing an ounce of profit due to shoddy construction. Plus, the "straw" sucking the oil out of the ground wouldn't operate as well, which means lower profits. Otherwise the fracking process would blow out the entire well pretty dramatically. All the below-ground well stuff is pressure-tested and rated to hold way more than what normal operations will ever see. Namely, issues with nasty chemicals isn't from the bottom up. Namely, issues with nasty chemicals isn't from the bottom up.Īll the below-ground well stuff is pressure-tested and rated to hold way more than what normal operations will ever see. I was a fracking field engineer for a bit. I was a fracking field engineer for a bit. ![]()
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