Shale Oil

blackpup · Jul 15, 2012

US. energy dependence on imported oil reduced by increased production of domestic shale oil. Ex BP. boss says shale could eleminate US. dependence on imported oil in thirty years.

BBC News - Shale will free US from oil imports, says ex-BP boss

Lord Browne said the sector needed stronger government regulation to prevent any bad practice.

He said: "Shale gas has a very bad reputation, as a result of the weak players cutting corners.

"Regulation tightening would be welcome."

Gee I guess BP. must have been one of those weak players, when they spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hypocite

jimmy

EnglishLady · Jul 16, 2012

Fracking still worries me

In the UK, at the only two spots fracked (is that a real word

) there were two minor earthquakes.

Do we really know what is going to happen to Mother Earth when fracking becomes the norm ......

skyraider · Jul 16, 2012

EnglishLady said:
Fracking still worries me

In the UK, at the only two spots fracked (is that a real word ) there were two minor earthquakes.

Do we really know what is going to happen to Mother Earth when fracking becomes the norm ......

Depending on ones frame of mind if any of us have a mind left, fracking has many definitions imho. I'm now going into uncontrollable laughter and oxygen deprivation.

EnglishLady · Jul 16, 2012

skyraider said:
Depending on ones frame of mind if any of us have a mind left, fracking has many definitions imho. I'm now going into uncontrollable laughter and oxygen deprivation.

ROFL, so u can't sleep either huh

skyraider · Jul 16, 2012

EnglishLady said:
ROFL, so u can't sleep either huh

1000000000000000----------444444444444444444444444444 lol

OntarioVanMan · Jul 16, 2012

IF and I say IF fracking is helping the earth relieve pressure off some fault lines prematurely then that is a good thing.....better to have a 2.1 now then a 7.1 later....you are talking about moving a continental plate....

BobWolf · Jul 16, 2012

I belive It was planed just to controll North Americian oil prices. It conviently happeneed when congress aproved aplications for North Americian companies to build and operate deep water oil platforms. Then the moritorium on drilling both on land and off shore. Blaming corperate greed on the middle east was getting old.
We have so many oil wells that the government wont allow to small oil companies to operate that we can end the imported oil issue in five minuites jus by simply turning on the pumps.

Bob Wolf

EnglishLady · Jul 16, 2012

OntarioVanMan said:
IF and I say IF fracking is helping the earth relieve pressure off some fault lines prematurely then that is a good thing.....better to have a 2.1 now then a 7.1 later....you are talking about moving a continental plate....

But and I say but .... lol

"In the region surrounding Youngstown in northeastern Ohio, where the (fracking) boom is in full swing, seismic instruments recorded nearly a dozen small quakes in 2011, with a magnitude-4.0 tremor reported December 31"

More like it is the cause not the solution IMO of course

layoutshooter · Jul 16, 2012

They have been fraking since the mid 1800's, since day one of the beginnings of the oil industry in Titusville, PA. Nothing new.

EnglishLady · Jul 16, 2012

layoutshooter said:
They have been fraking since the mid 1800's, since day one of the beginnings of the oil industry in Titusville, PA. Nothing new.

There has to be a difference ...... modern chemicals, modern machinery and so on and so forth.

BobWolf · Jul 16, 2012

The United States is riddled with major fault lines theyre just not as dramatic as the pacific coast look at any U.S. geo fault line map. I live on the Clarendon fault systeme in western N.Y. The main fault line starts in Cananda, travels under Lake Ontario, south thru New York State and ends in western P.A.
Now, with that said right allong the fault line there are hundreds of rock quareys several covering a couple hundred acres. Now if that dosent open a fault I dont think fracking will.

OntarioVanMan · Jul 16, 2012

I think and ya know how that goes....LOL Connecting Fracking to earthquakes is akin to linking humans to global warming....IMO

OntarioVanMan · Jul 16, 2012

BobWolf said:
The United States is riddled with major fault lines theyre just not as dramatic as the pacific coast look at any U.S. geo fault line map. I live on the Clarendon fault systeme in western N.Y. The main fault line starts in Cananda, travels under Lake Ontario, south thru New York State and ends in western P.A.
Now, with that said right allong the fault line there are hundreds of rock quareys several covering a couple hundred acres. Now if that dosent open a fault I dont think fracking will.

funny I just watched a show about the quakes of NYC and Boston....and the bigger one that struck Mesina NY and crossed into Cornwall Ont...

BobWolf · Jul 16, 2012

Exactly.

Gotta go to work, maby Ill have water front property when I get home.

Go hanson agrigates go!!!

Bob Wolf

BobWolf · Jul 16, 2012

Yep, that was from the Clarendon Linden systeme.

OldGuy · Jul 16, 2012

EnglishLady said:
But and I say but .... lol

"In the region surrounding Youngstown in northeastern Ohio, where the (fracking) boom is in full swing, seismic instruments recorded nearly a dozen small quakes in 2011, with a magnitude-4.0 tremor reported December 31"

More like it is the cause not the solution IMO of course

Of course they're going to record tremors, they're using thousands of PSI to move ground and make a cavern.

layoutshooter · Jul 16, 2012

EnglishLady said:
There has to be a difference ...... modern chemicals, modern machinery and so on and so forth.

A, big, uncontrolled boom in the old days, Using nitro. Now they use mainly water and the area is encased when they frack it. Today's fracking is more along the lines of a large water hammer. No one is going to be blown up either.

Besides, there is starting to be a glut of natural gas so activity is likely to slow.