Second, that would mean that on at least 2, 000 of those frac jobs, no such claim was made.
More than a million wells have been fracced in the United States since the first frac job six decades ago.
Demand for frac sand is rising as more energy companies explore unconventional oil deposits, but the supply hasn't kept up.
At one point he speculates about frac fluid migrating up from 2 miles below the surface to ruin the land.
And, there is promise in domestic resources from the application of horizontal drilling and staged frac technologies to tight oil reservoirs.
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You weep for your i-phone app, and you curse the frac crews.
Frac spreads, or the value of NGLs over dry natgas, are expected to stay elevated and keep many producers profitable despite weak natgas prices.
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Among those impacts are substantial water usage, damage to roads by heavy truck traffic, potential spillage of frac fluids and management of the chemicals used in the process.
U.S. Silica specializes in commercial silica used in a variety of industries, the most prominent being "frac sand" to stimulate oil and gas recovery in formations such as shale.
Since that day, more than a dozen other states have enacted their own laws or regulations requiring Frac fluid disclosure, and most have used HB 3328 as their model.
The rest of the entries are Spiral Stakes winner Black Onyx, Wood runner-up Normandy Invasion, Arkansas Derby runner-up Frac Daddy, Louisiana Derby runner-up Mylute, Falling Sky, Golden Soul and Giant Finish.
If demand for frac sand continues to rise, and if the general economic recovery continues to result in increased demand from other industries, U.S. Silica expects prices to go even higher.
Well, apparently it is an investment company with large holdings in Chinese soft drinks and the disposal of saltwater and frac fluid generated in oil and gas operations in Texas and Lousiana.
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Another recent article on the subject discusses the fact that the trade secret provision in the Texas law has been exercised roughly 10, 000 times in over 12, 000 frac jobs that have been disclosed.
The public should also understand that, in the case of an emergency, the frac contractor is required by law to disclose all chemicals that have gone down the hole to first responders on the scene.
With that stroke of his pen, Governor Perry made Texas the first state in the country to require by statute the well-by-well public disclosure of all the constituent chemicals, compounds and water volume contained in frac fluids.
And third, is it really surprising that, in such a highly competitive business environment, some of these Frac contractors would have one element in a complex formula that they would want to keep secret from their competitors?
Just as Coca Cola has protected its soft drink formula from Pepsi and other competitors for more than a century under U.S. Patent law, these frac contractors also have the right to protect their patented compounds and formulas.
After all, they support passage of a federal FRAC Act but what you seldom hear from supporters of that federal act is that it, too, contains a provision to allow providers of fracturing services to protect trade secrets.
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Chesapeake Energy announced on Monday it would put all its 487, 000 acres in the Fayetteville Shale, which current production of 415 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day, its 25.8% stake in Frac Tech, and its 20% stake in Chaparral Energy.
This story and others also invariably contain quotes from environmental groups or anti-development activists who complain about the trade secret protection clause in the Texas law, but who also have expressed longtime support for a proposed federal law commonly referred to as the FRAC Act.
FracFocus was created to address a very specific issue that had been raised by environmental groups: Several years ago, there was supposedly a hue and cry from landowners wanting to know the chemical content of the frac fluids that were going down oil and gas wells on their land or on adjacent lands.
At the end of of 2011, China energy majors Sinopec (SNP) and Cnooc (CEO) have expressed interest in acquiring a 30% stake in privately held Texas-based fracking company Frac Tech International to operate in the U.S. If that deal ever closed, China would gain the necessarily expertise to pursue shale gas exploration at home.
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