How Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) Works
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Need for gas production. Where shale gas is located and why it has been difficult to get out. What ultrasound technology has to do with hydraulic fracturing. Difference between porous rocks and shale. Horizontal drilling is explained. Comparison of regular wells vs hydraulic fractured wells over time for both oil and gas. Where the fresh water aquifers are, and how they are kept safe. How the fracturing is done and why it is hydraulic.
If I ever go back to college, I want this guy as a professor.
Just keep watching youtube. It's a better education anyway.
@@trucid2 Especially if you do a Lemon Party.
This is the best explanation I've ever watched about hydraulic fracturing, thank you so much!
Discovered this guy after looking for info on Chernobyl after watching the miniseries. This guy gives the most enjoyable and easy-to-understand (I'm an ESL teacher with no degree) lectures I've ever watched.
This is a few years old now, but great vids. For oil, there was a series that basically went from finding the oil in the ground, all the way to using the different oils produced. This would be great to have a similar series for natural gas. It is sort of here in this playlist, but from start to finish, in order, like the oil was. But, either way, very interesting to learn a bit about all of these topics, keep 'em coming :)
Finally a professor that teaches science instead of socialism and race theory
You know colleges teach all sorts of stuff xD
Go to school for engineering... and every class will be somewhat like this
what a retarded ass comment from obviously a dumbass trump supporter
Glad I found this you tuber. He describes the processes and the science behind them in a clear and concise way. Great info!
You are completely oblivious
I consider myself relatively well versed in this subject and in watching this video I was just absolutely amazed and impressed with how well done and how informative it was. I learned a lot. Thank you for making it!
You’re completely oblivious!
Hard to believe I've only discovered this guy a week ago on Utube, excellent videos. While this ability to drill sideways and fracture is impressive and I'm glad we have it, I cannot imagine how this can be cheap enough to be commercially viable. Also one cannot ignore that there's only so much. Whatever relief this has offered should be used for long term benefit, not short term gain
Very delightful and most informative! Thanks David!!
This channel is really cool. I like this guy!
I frac for a living, he know his stuff
I am amazed by this ability, how the hell do you make a 90 with a drill that far down?
@@jeffreystroman2811 a special tool is used called a deviation tool which helps to drill kick off at a certain point in the well
@@jeffreystroman2811 its not a sharp 90* turn. It can take thousands of feet of vertical distance for the casing to make a 90-ish degree turn.
@@jdhill770 interesting I was wondering that. I'm invested in falcon oil and gas, they're drilling now in Australia and the horizontal portion is supposed to be happening now and testing results this month hopefully.
@@WCGwkf The only other nontraditional (fracking) play is in Argentina. The Aussies are most likely directionally drilling to get to traditional sources in hard to reach places like under a mountain.
These casings through the aquifer. Worried about life span, failure rate, compliance and monitoring.
well the wells don't last forever. Casings only need to last as long as the well. Once the well is done they close it. Literally. With explosives. Nothing will flow up after
Wells get cemented up after use. Even grounwater wells and monitoring wells. The casing doesnt have to last forever. And yes, there is a lot of oversight. I work in a groundwater monitoring field. It's a lot bigger than most people realize.
@@jlowe8059 yup. Capping and safety is a huge concern for anyone that runs, owns, or is around a well. At this point in history we’ve been taught how devastating poor safety can be for everyone - it’s also more economically responsible as the same reserve can have future applications you must be mindful of.
My main concern is preserving the structure of underground water. Underground water is a vital asset we can keep using indefinitely if it is done effectively. But fracking may break up the layers of non-permiable water and contaminating them. We can only get fracking once. But carefully managed artesian water structure can last indefinitely. Clean water is actually more important than gas. Especially for farming.
Terminus Est He addresses that in another video. Fracking is done at far greather depths than where the water table is at. I don't believe there is any chance of doing that since they aren't putting pressure on those water containing layers.
@@simonphoenix3789 you drink the Kool-Aid of course it’s completely dangerous and will always contaminate the well eventually. You’ve never seen concrete crumble eventually?
I’m not trying to be a tree hugger or anything, I live in oil country and benefit from oil, but I’ve worked on a frac site for a while and their is a lot this guy left out about fracking....
Like what? (serious)
@@kylethompson1379 he didn’t leave much out. If you adhere to oversight and geological guidelines he’s pretty damn knowledgeable. Those that don’t adhere to their responsibilities get hurt - financially or otherwise - in the long run and learn to do so.
Fracking is ingenius. My neighbours had a well drilled for water and when they were at 200ft, they had a small drizzle but then they fracked the well and now they have lots of water. Certainly I rather see people in one country drilling and fracking gas wells then attacking another country to steal their resources. There is plenty to go around.
Of course good environmental standards are important to go along with any project too.
So..... What happened to the kidney?
He doesn't care. He got his trip to Hawaii.
It’s exiting to know that our country is energy independent. It’s the best time in all of history to be alive.
Can you do a video "Did Joe Biden say he was going to ban fracking"?
"People" who complain about fracking don't know anything about what it even is.
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Fracking not so bad, but most of the workers that go with producing the wells are the problem.
What is wrong with workers?
@@lordcirth most are rude, have no respect for anything and in my area brought a lot of drugs with them. Many people have been killed because of their drunk drinking heavy trucks at high speeds.