Fracing a Natural Gas Well

[Rickey85]

yeah lets frac all over and poison our food and water. then die

[godlessthrash]

Iv been on smaller pads like ritz in columbia cross roads but not a bad set up not many frac or flow back tanks did they use a pond maybe off site ? I didn't see any poly tho

[meathead0724]

looks like environmental terrorism

[ea32da32]

Looks like a nice operation considering the elements you have to work in. I can tell there are many who comment and have never been involved in the 'working in the elements'. It's ok, you worry about chemicals and amounts of water, you ever look at your parents water bill, I doubt that. You have no clue, nor any right to comment on this. Try science, no don't bother, that would be a waste of resources too. We'll import the Chinese to make up for our scientific loss here. No sense in wasti

[GeoguyNEPA]

Water is pumped down the hole at about 3000 gpm.

[JonEApelcede]

Where I am from in Western NY, many wells and underground water supplies have been affected by well fracturing. The industry can make all of the claims that it cares to, but the people who live the aftermath never seem to get the same amount of "air time" as the energy companies...........I wonder why that is??

[dmta]

just had a second interview for baker hughes as a truck driver on a fracking crew. what all does the truck driver do ?

[JakeEvilclown]

Hmmmm. They claim they only put 5,000 gallons per frac well into the ground. Count the trucks here and figure how many gallons or tons of poison they are pumping into this well. Looks like they are lying about the scale and amounts. They have to be pumping way more than 5,000 gallons into this well. Probably closer to 500,000 gallons or more.

[PSUWayneCounty]

@JakeEvilclown Actually during the clip I stated that 800,000 gallons were used at this hydraulic fracturing site. And this is a relatively small 'frac' compared to what we typically see in Pennsylvania today (average of around 4 million gallons). No one is lying.

[JakeEvilclown]

@PSUWayneCounty Yup the numbers an industry gives is never accurate and with no regulations and checks sky is the limit. This is where I'm from. Shame to see this beautiful area destroyed forever for a little gas. My uncle even let them drill on his land. What a greedy idiot he is.

[brucenator]

@PSUWayneCounty Where were the 800,000 gallons of water drawn from? From what water supply?

[PSUWayneCounty]

@brucenator The water used for hydraulic fracturing in Pennsylvania comes largely from surface water bodies - rivers and larger streams.

[McGillicutty88]

@JakeEvilclown Hmmm why don't you go hug a tree rufus....you're a clown...everyones always gotta bitch about something they know nothing about..this is why this country is almost worthless because ppl like you. Since you specialize in being a clown go look up some of those vids and comment on them.

[a10fjet]

how are there only 23 ratings but 100k views?

[dannyboy5064]

this is a dated video since 2009 in pa u must use containment and 100000 other things to keep the envrionment safer i work for weatherford out of pa and we do it different then in tx we are alot more careful with our waste waters and stuff

[s46d45m17]

all that equipment means there is alot of money in natural gas.

[SuperMellix]

I have a question to all those who wish to stop natural gas fracing and oil exploration: How much of your present way of life are you willing to give up? Will you sell your car? Live in a smaller house? Choose not to go on vacations?

You can complain all you want about the way we produce our energy, but until we end our dependence on fossil fuels, this type of exploration will continue, and only accelerate. Sell your SUV, move to a smaller house, get rid of electronic devices. or it wont end

[bordenguy]

i frac and alot of the info is wrong. the frac van is a frac cat actually and the water isnt mearured in gallons its in barrels each tank is 500 barrels. we do things right and all the site where the piping runs and are tanks and pumps are would have a containment built so the acids and diesel fuel and water doesnt just go on the ground. this is why people are against fracing

[dav5419]

All the more reason for alternative energy sources.

[btownmxer]

I hate how these companies destroy the environment. Im so glad I use propane instead of natural gas...

[proaudiohd]

@btownmxer - Propane is one fraction of natural gas. It all comes out of the same hole in the ground.

[red5media]

"natural" gas. common people it is one of 3 fossil fuels, they want us to switch over to something that "seems" cleaner but it is a limited resource. rather than move forward into a new energy world, they want to keep us enslaved. get it? it's the same old trap just a new cage lined with promises of a cleaner fuel. its a scam

[kvnnagel]

Thats just a very small Frac... you should see the manifold on a 40 truck system. Thats just 5 pump trucks.

[chevymann999]

that is a BJ command center, so i think its safe to say BJ did that frac, i work the gas patch myself, i am flowback tho, and deal with all of the companies that do the fracs

[rocksiphone]

Good Video

[babsinva]

For those of you that understand what's going on I applaud you, and for those that don't - you may want to do further research before opening your mouth. I would suggest looking up biogenic gas, thermogenic gas, benzene, methane, AND looking into the gas rigs catching fire, water wells exploding, evacuations, dead animals in streams, cattle quarantine in Pennsylvania and then maybe just maybe you can open you mouth. Until then you look and sound uneducated.

[inactionvideo]

I will not slam this video, as it was made for informational purposes. What I do not understand is, if your trying to be proactive and be an information outlet, why now disclose ALL the compounds that are used in these operations. There was a lot that was left out that should have been HONESTLY been disclosed for the general public's awareness if this was to be used as an educational outlet. The long term repercussions and time will tell the truth of what is happening with these operations.

[PSUWayneCounty]

@inactionvideo Thanks for your comment. The video was just meant to give people a visual idea of what the hydraulic fracturing process looks like. When the video was recorded and posted (Feb 2008) very few people in Pennsylvania had seen the process including myself.

[luthare2]

this pos web site will not let me put a web link in here but her goes, the most used compounds are tap water or well water that you could drink, Sand or fake sand, and KCL (potassium chloride)

[kurtizzyflush]

@inactionvideo Fracing has been going on for years. There should be some good data already available. Get some.

[ljones121]

@inactionvideo you can get it, off of the EPA website, as well as the American Petroleum institute's site. and there are 2 seperate EPA reports that concluded Hydro fracking is safe.. great video by the way PSU Wayne County,

[cabritorsss]

@inactionvideo The basics...jellied water or diesal is blended with sand and pumped at high pressure down the well bore where it is forced into the tiny crevices of the formation below. The equipent includes a series of 500 barrel frac tanks, a blender truck for mixing and hogh horesepower truck mounted oumps to pump the fluid. After the job is done, the fluid is recovered up through the well bore andthe sand remains as a porous medium to aid the flow of the hydrocarbons. (late but honest)

[meldaby22]

im glad to see someone that is positively portraying the industry, rather than a bunch of hillbillies being interviewed... the men in this film are all wearing correct PPE and appear to be normal and health... and the "pit" or "pond" as you called it- isnt seeping up a similar substance like the ooze from TMNT... amazing- fracing really is a safe and efficient way to extract natural gas from the ground... it is a shame that people are terrorizing the industry... thanks PSU!

[misterbuilder]

@meldaby22 I agree...we are cleaning up the Earth thru fracing...

[jaggatorpm]

To learn more about hydraulic fracturing, there is an excellent documentary on the subject at.... gas land the movie dot com

[CigarJunkie]

@jaggatorpm Gasland is not an unbiased "documentary" ... they portray a VERY negatively slanted view of the technology. It clearly smacks of the same extreme environmentalism and pseudoscience that the folks at U of P and East Anglia are known for... Michael Mann anyone? Pulling anything out of the ground is dirty business... and the left is very hypocritical... they use the tech without a 2nd thought that is made from those very materials in their propaganda against those materials.

[nomorepasswords100]

@CigarJunkie : If by the left, you mean scientists, then you are wrong. We think long and hard about the waste and pollution created as we use resources, like this computer, to coordinate the best use of our planet.

[JoeCool031619]

So how long does the "Flaring" process last? I have a site about 250yds from my house in a very rural area & for 3 weeks now it constantly sounds like a jet fly around my house from the gas being burnt off. It sounds like you would think a giant flame thrower would. I can't wait for this site to be completed. Thanks for the local jobs though. Oh wait all the workers are from TX. It took 18 hrs to plug a well gushing frac water last wk b/c guys from tx had to be flown in to pa to stop it. ???

[Rip73064]

They push propant, sand essentially, downhole and it holds the formation open. They do frac with only water sometimes it just depends on the formation

[Honeypott310]

I will no longer be using Gas to fill my grill or in my home. this process is disgusting, and dangerous to all drinking water within 1000 miles of the "fracing" Natural Gas is a scam just like Clean Coal. And we will pay for it with your health and lives.

[OttoDog111]

@Honeypott310

You're not very bright. Essentially, sand is placed into cracks in a shale formation, so that naturally occuring hydrocarbons ("gas") can be extracted from the well. In the Marcellus, the "Pay Zone" is about a mile below your water table, and is capped by a non-porous formation. Otherwise, the well wouldn't exist in the first place.

[Rdnck83]

That is definately BJ. 20 bbl/min. isn't much. Was the formation tight? The wells around here in OK we see anywhere from 50 bbl. to 90 bbl per min.

[Hooverdarnit]

fracing is another way of injecting poisons into the water table.

[OttoDog111]

@Hooverdarnit

You apparently know zilch about the geology of a well.

Wells only exist and are recoverable when they are "capped" (separated vertically) from water-bearing formations. If the "pay zone" is in itersection with a water-bearing strata, the well is known as a "wet hole", which is about as bad as drilling the proverbial "dry hole".

[exaltedangel09]

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[BrockRockswell]

YEs wardbla, I have open hole frac'd, right now I am sitting on a with 14 pumps, 10 stages. Bought all I am gonna say about that.

[z3160587]

No offense.

But the sit layout displayed at the beginning looked very unorganized!

Didn't picture such an operation to have so many individuals involved.

Looks more like a field trip to me.

[christo930]

We are paying a huge price for this gas, especially in terms of water. We really need to think twice about this, especially with NG prices so low.

[mongration]

damn thats one of the smallest fracs i have ever seen....

[8golftango]

lol, five pumps. wonder what the pressure and rate was.

[ranman1022]

Probably 3500 # and 1 BBL/M. LOL

[brokenpine284]

LOL I agree - not to metion the lack of PPE on location, or the tiny wellhead. What a dog & pony show.

[reflectinggod69]

Yeah this is BJ here... have worked for them for about a year now doing nitrogen fracs here in Ky.

[mnbvcx12m]

what part of kentucky are you workin in im originaly from western ky and lookin to maybe go back you guys hiring out there

[brokenpine284]

BJ= Blue Junk

[wardbla]

Any one ever open hole frac?

[ranman1022]

Are you high?

[slyshepperd]

I have been fracing for about close to ten years now, I just made my move to land frac in Okalhoma, before that I was in the gulf. We used to pump 12 pound sand (12ppg) at 40BPM and we ran tracers with protechnics and they injected in our line while we were on pad, sand, and flush just depending on what the company wanted! This equipment here sure looks like BJ if you ask me but I'm not familar with what you have in the northeast so!

[mnbvcx12m]

here in the southwest us we have protechnicks (i think thats how its spelled) they send radioactive isotopes downhole while we are pumping from pad stage through flush

[ranman1022]

It's Pro Technics ( Core Lab ) but yeah they have been tagging sand for decades then us wireline boys come in and show them where the frac went. =]

[leejones2232]

do you Universal guys ever do any work for Nornew inc? also if i remember correctly, going of what my father's told me, that all of the radioactive stuff goes down hole when the wireline company comes in and logs the well. Allegeny wireline comes to mind for that job.

[leejones2232]

yea, prolly be a better thing not to piss off your employer, any of you universal guys doing any work for Nornew in eastern NY? also for who ever said the radioactive stuff goes down with the sand, that's as far as i know of not true, from what i understand all the radioactive stuff goes down when they're logging the well, and i'd believe that's more up Allageny Wire Line's field of expertise.

[havnbuckfever]

im also a universal employee..ers to be more exact...remember that thing you signed??? be very careful what you say online man....i know i don't wanna lose my job...muahahhahahaha..you see Cr3ater...if we mention trade secrets or anything of the like

the give us the boot....

[Cr3ater]

Couple of questions, how fast do you normaly pump there and whats the max ppg of sand do yo use. Where i live, we dont pump faster than 15 bbl/m and no more than 1 lb/gal.

[hosickjr]

I work for Universal Well Services in Meadville Pa, and they don't pump radiation down the hole with the sand they pump liquid nitrogen.

[leejones2232]

so who is doing the fracing in this video, i'd figured it be Universal Well Services, but it doesn't look like their stuff.

[PSUWayneCounty]

I believe it was BJ Services Company, or at least they were involved with the frac.

[pabobfin]

I understand hydraulics and pressure, but why does frac-ing require anything more than clean water going down the hole? Anyone?

[maddcartoonist]

Hey I live in Denver and I'm thinking about taking a fracing job not sure if I'm going to take it but if i do how is it work wise? I'm not scared of hard work if the pay is good. So is it a hard job?

[mnbvcx12m]

i work for halliburton on a frac crew the hardest part is rigging up the lines and rigging dowm other than that its pretty boring durring the job we run everything from the frac van so its mostly standing around as for the pay i know with halliburton the pay is not as much as some other companies but the bennifits are better the only saving grace for us is the 80 hr work weeks

[wmichswingers]

Do you work in texas? My company hauls sand for Haliburton.

[mnbvcx12m]

no i work in new mexico 4 corners area

[mnbvcx12m]

we are fracing mostly all natural gas wells here in the southwest and usual pumpong is 35-65 bbl/min

[mbarnes99]

you dont frac a natural.

unless they are recompleting after the gas drive was depleted.

[mtbiker4870]

Do you work in the patch? I work in the patch so I know what I'm talking about. YES YOU DO FRAC NATURAL GAS WELL UPON FIRST COMPLETION, WORK OVERS ETC. With our new jet wash technology we are now perforating a horizontal zone 10 times (10 intervals) with a sand plug between each interval. We frac every interval (Co2, sand and water) befroe we even attempt to flow them. They make about 110 10 3m3 a day. Not bad.....(4 million in gas). SO, yes you do frac natural.

[patwhite010101]

uhhhh what are you talking about??????

[penubra]

Oh yeah? Come up to Pennsylvania sometime. That's the only way to release the gas in the Marcellus where I live.

[fratmonkey5]

Can you give me the location of one of these gas wells in PA?

[24kmex]

aw hell, ive been on site at 200 BBL/min.

[PSUWayneCounty]

It was close to 20 BBL/min.

[osiriszero8769]

hey, there are thinking of putting one of these drills within 300 feet of a mansion neighborhood along with a populated neghborhood. Look up bridlewood flower mound texas on google. Is it safe to put one of these in a neighborhood like this. Doesnt radioactive material get released and is there a health hazard?

[TOYDOLLSKID]

no theyres nothing dangerous about it. let them drill the well. frac it. produce the gas. and better the north texas economy.

[FreshBrewProductions]

Radioactive material used in hydraulic fracturing??? No...

[dleslie40]

yes protechnics  send radiation down to follow the sand

[dleslie40]

it'll be ok they are all over hte place the rich get richer

[luxhottub]

How fast, 18 BBL/Min?