Natural Gas Well Frac Pressure Release (part 2)

This is a few minutes later when we opened the valve a little bit more to release more pressure. The pressure was significant enough to blow like this for the better part of a day.
We have just reopened the well head to release the pressure built up from the nitrogen that was used to fracture or "frac" the shale underneath. A pipe was set to release the pressure into the waste pit to muffle the sound.

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Science & Technology

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• natural
• gas
• well
• frac
• pressure