Forum Post: Fracking?? Pffftt. Try Acid Jobs.
Posted 11 years ago on June 2, 2013, 11:28 a.m. EST by shoozTroll
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If you thought fracking was an issue, wait until you read this.
Keep in mind, this is being done in an active seismic region.
Will it take A hydroflouric acid geyser during an earthquake to convince them, this might be a problem?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/28/us-california-oil-insight-idUSBRE94R0CO20130528
Hydrofluoric acid is a frightful contact poison.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrofluoric_acid
Yes, yes it is.
There are far too many who've ignored this post for the usual esoteric, pointless arguments about political "purity".
Meanwhile, the acid jobs continue, unabated and unnoticed.
You made some good points shooz.
There was an article I read yesterday on someone chopping down the forest the monarch butterfly's return to in Mexico every winter, but no here seems to care about such things anymore.
It's just another beautiful and amazing creature......gone.
So I didn't bother to post it.
It's all about distractions around here these days..
hydroFLUORIC acid is used to etch glass
BUT, to me - here was the interesting sentence
"You can complete the well without fracking it, but it changes the economics pretty drastically," said Dan Eberhart, head wellhead specialist Canary LLC.
Does this mean that this entire process can be done with WATER only?
It will just cost more?
update: silly me - I just called two fracking engineers at Canary. Neither mentioned HF and one explained that the chemicals shot down the wells with the water and sand are "food grade" used to lubricate the sand as it penetrates the rock and all come back up with the extracted oil.
I decided not to ask why Haliburton, etc demanded laws to keep the chemical lists secret.
I do not know if these engineers were spewing the party line or if they knew the truth.
This "acid job" fracking is new to me, but is apparently only being done in California?
Melting rocks, doesn't sound very "food grade" to me.
"It is an old well completion method that involves pumping chemicals such as hydrofluoric acid into wells to melt rocks and other impediments to oil flow, and companies are not required to report when they do it."
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Most of what they do these days would qualify...........................:(
As insane.