Shale Oil - The Rush for Black Gold - 11.20.2011
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- One of America's biggest energy challenges is foreign oil dependency. The U.S. imports about half the oil it uses, putting the nation's energy security at risk and costing hundreds of billions of dollars per year. New drilling innovations are unlocking vast new reserves and boosting local economies. But is the new drilling also forcing a tough choice between oil and water in drought-stricken Texas? This week, energyNOW! explores the latest U.S. oil boom.
Black Gold From Shale Rock
The combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in shale rock formations is opening up previously unrecoverable oil, just as those technologies did for natural gas. It's driving a boom in U.S. energy production and creating bright spots in a tough economy across America.
Correspondent Patty Kim visits Williston, North Dakota, the site of America's largest shale oil field and heart of the new oil rush, to check out life in an oil boom town.
Is The Oil Boom Worsening The Texas Drought?
Texas is home to America's second largest shale oil field, and business is booming - production has skyrocketed from under 1,000 barrels a day in 2004 to more than 8 million so far in 2011. But hydraulic fracturing in shale rock requires millions of gallons of water, a precious resource during one of the worst droughts in the state's history.
Anchor Thalia Assuras visits the Eagle Ford shale in Texas to see how rapidly expanding water use by energy companies is impacting the state.
Interview: EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
Fracking operations may be competing for water supplies in Texas, but they have also raised concerns about water safety in other parts of the country.
Anchor Thalia Assuras sits down for a one-on-one interview with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to discuss pressing energy and environmental issues, including fracking.
Before anyone has anything to say about the oilfield ; you have to realize everything has oil in it including your keyboard you type on, vehicles you use to get to work,your cellphones and the markers you write on your protest signs. Get over it, if its such a big deal than go ahead and not wear shoes and ride your donkey to work.
its right that oil is used evrywhere and that its important, but there are other ways to get oil than destroying other people`s existence by fracking the shit out of a country. Some people can even burn their water now. If u had to experience shit like that u would not have written your dumb comment.
Think of the fact that the FRACKING is taking place on average about 15,000 feet below the surface. The EPA is not good for America. Drill baby DRILL ! ! ! This is a message from a American for America. Oil spills are unbeleivably bad and I don't like what happened in Houston Either. Valdez was bad and the impact is still there under the surface and that is not acceptable. At Valdez the Herring never came back and it was on of the greatest place in the world. We need and can do better with design and holding people accountable.
we do not import half of our oil. we are actually EXPORTING oil.
This video is funded by a front group of Chesapeake Energy, an Oklahoma company that is involved in fracking.
I hope they are enjoying their earthquakes.
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The poor workers are getting cancer like no tomorrow from the 600 chemicals they use.....
Don't Frack Ventura you are stupid please contact me on facebook i can educate you on fracing
+evildude5t5 Why frac at 2.00 a gallon wasting millions of gallons of water?
Listen before you scrutinize me. Yes I do have a Bachelors in Civil engineering (which requires a massive amount of chemistry) via Clemson University. Thanks for asking. I have seen some of these facilities an from a scientific point they are cleaner than any off shore drilling. You blab on like you know what you are talking about. While you set in your moms basement and browse the internet. If you can't find a job go apply in North Dakota, where you might get a real life. Have a nice day.
If world's convention oil reserves are going to peak in 500 years from now, can you explain why USA's oil production peaked in 1970s? It seems to me that one of the ever biggest and major oil production countries peaked roughly 40 years ago... where did you get that number? If we are already digging for tar sands and shale oil - it means only one thing - we are running out of easy to access oil which means: We are soon peaking production of conventional oil and that's it, it's a fact...
Ouch lol, those poor business owners resorting to foreign students. WOW that was hardout.
Reducing our dependency on foreign oil has already created more job security. Look for major growth in next 10 years.
Timothy Smith, Petro Lucrum
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+Timothy Smith, SFO AT 2.00 A GALLON we should buy it from other places. wasting millions of gallons of water to get at shale is a waste of water.
Exporting American gas overseas is just plain dumb, especially when it destroys American water and pollutes American air quality. Look at clear.uta.edu and watch some of their videos about their research.
You think you have strange neighbors? My neighbor is a 24-7 oil well. Please support our lil neighborhood group: Google : Stop Ventura Fracking
Difficult question: oil or water???? Are u kidding me? Without water there is no live possible and without live the oil doesnt value anything. Oil is for "progress" only IF YOU HAVE live!!!
If people really want to stop the Canadian Tar Sands Keystone XL Pipeline and the Fracking being done in ND and soon CA. They need to advocate for new regulations in the stock market to get Crude Oil out of commodities futures trading where big investment banks gamble with the price driving the price higher i.e. "speculation". If speculators were gone and oil was priced with real supply and demand the price of oil would be around $50 a barrel or less making these huge oil projects unprofitable.
Translation: Hypocrite: The practice of professing beliefs, or feelings, that one does not posses. : Would seem to apply to yourself sir. Not I.
sure put all those chemicals there and pray that your drinking water will be safe I see Erin Brockovich part 2 releasing soon .
The oil companies get the Bakken and the locals get the fakken! Born and raised here and it sucks!!!!
...you watch too much Leftwing TV, kid. And....you don't get around much......
Sorry, but you're all over the place. I'm out of here.
Man, the administrator, I hate to say this, but what a dunce..
Isn't that interesting...2011 coincides with the start of a MASSIVE spike in Earthquakes in Oklahoma.
3 earthquakes a year, before this 'gold rush'...850 last year, at the height of the 'rush for black gold'. Thanks to fracking, our buildings are falling down and we are now the earthquake capital of the entire world.
we need to build mosques in all over north dakota
120 WASTE water wells to inject the waste water back into the ground at one mile down...no they don't recycle much....I want to see that plant...where would it be exactly?
The guy pissed must not have oil on his land.
This is why I recently bought property in both Cochise County and Mohave County Arizona. Closed on the Cochise property in San Simon last month. Just waiting on final approval from the Title company for the Kingman property. They are giving away this land for a song and a dance. LOL
Looking for a rain God..in texas
Fresh Water Treatment
Fresh Water is normally produced on cruise ships by means of salt water reverse osmosis (SWRO) units, which can be fitted with remineralisation systems designed to improve palatability and control corrosion potential of the produced water on a bigger scale taken from the gulf for water hogs frackers.
shale oil rock is black or dark grew and can burn with a match.......not her example of clean shale. The millionaire farmers don't like this.
Fracking made my beer go dry! So I went to the store to buy more and only to discover that the men doing the fracking bought every beer in the store! Damn you oil companies!!!!
lol
fracking is old technology. Water is always used before pumping it out.
This is praganda now......talking to rich farmers about oil.....
Peak Unfounded Optimism appears to be at least that long in the future.
And also, there is plenty of water. North Dakota was hit by a massive flood caused by a dam being opened in Canada
editorially independent - she should have put that footnote in the headline.....such nonsense.
I was there! in 2011 and it's all closed down NOW! 2017! Oil the price goes up and down, people get rich and then go Broke! Good by Oil industry ! I'll work in another industry! Thank You God Bless!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peace Out
Lots of rigs there again. STFU!!
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Thank you energyNOWnews for an informative video, even though I think these fossil fuel technologies is a step in the wrong direction. They will most likely just bring more pollution and slow down the switch to renewable energy. Is it really worth it?
at 4.50 a gallon I think so
I can solve the water problem!!!
I hav aeto say that oilwells add interest to flat empty lands.
They surely make 'em stink. Drive through Odessa TX and hold your nose. Get through as fast as you can. It's smells horrible, and it will make you really sick.
by interest, you mean earthquakes and pollution? I guess that's interesting to some people...
Use salt water since liberals think the ocean is rising lmao
mabey your on to something . Why cant they use ocean water from the gulf of mexico to frac with? does it absolutly have to be fractured with fresh water?
super taip ir toliau hebrite ;D
"dry hole country" "fracking"