Details of Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)

[@andredegraaf1643]

Great and articulate explanations by the people being interviewed. Very informative program.

[@michaelogden5958]

It's good to see a non-hysterical overview of the process. Thanks!

[@Okfalls]

Wow this needs more exposure! Well done Ezra!!! Biggest point here is the recycling of Frack Water, second is the effort towards Safety and protection of the environment.

[@theeagle3349]

how much did you get paid for this bollocks

[@TheAncientOneOfDays]

Hey you POS, drink some more and filter it through your kidneyes and pass the bucket to you kids and make your wife drink. disgusting fracks you all are

[@fogboyenterprise2724]

@@TheAncientOneOfDays Do you complain when your house is heated too?

[@kevinbashnick]

Frac. It's Frac-ing there is no K in fracture.

[@StandngOnBusiness]

I have to give it to this reporter he asked every question I had in my head and more and I haul sand to these jobs everyday and had zero clue what’s going on

[@1776adb]

Best discription so far

[@FolkloreMcgrin]

Thank you for the report!

[@DengKhor]

This is what I'm doing for living. Safety is the first priority and in God's will we all the oil workers will be safe to support our family.

[@shishkabobby]

It was a bit ra-ra, but generally a great presentation. The last sentence was a bit of asshattery.

[@alfy234]

Best video I’ve seen and I’m in my 4th year Fracking

[@UselessTrucker]

So where does the water come from and where does the ruined water go?

[@johnmiller632]

the water comes fromwerever they can get it when they 1st stared with this carp they just dumped it back into strems+rivers not good!then they tried to treat at waste plants but its to dirity so then they built holding ponds not good eather now they drill holes in the earth +pour it down the hole now what do u think about that?

[@douglashinckley7316]

The reclaimed water will be recycled and reused in more fracking.

[@josephv5346]

lol

[@o0anonymity0o]

So that it can eventually rejoin the water table the long way around? So that we don't see the results for 50 years vs. 5 years? Oh, that makes sense....capitalism.

[@jeremydeveraux4785]

@@o0anonymity0o God bless Capitalism!

[@jakebdeltoro5191]

Micheal hayne. Produced water can be re used. If it is too contaminated to be treated it gets taken to a SWD and disposed of thousands of feet below the water table not into ponds and lakes.

[@valeighaochoa3038]

I might be getting a fracking job any legit tips

[@wt1370]

Lots of tips. But you need to be more specific for me to help

[@fogboyenterprise2724]

Be prepared to be flamed for being new, take nothing to heart, tomorrow is a new day. Get ready to work long obscure hours and get paid very decently for doing grunt work starting out, don't complain, and don't talk back unless it's out of actual humour when the situations not serious - going against any of these will get you canned quick

[@kevinbashnick]

Don't do drugs

[@ernestwiatrek3940]

Question: I have fracked wells in the Eagle Ford tight shale zone in Karnes County, Texas. Approximately how large and how long are the "cracks" perpendicular to the lateral lines? I've heard around 1000+ feet, typically. The wells are about 10,500 feet deep. Any info you could provide......

[@antoniomathiotte4585]

Carry on, America. The founders are blessing you wherever they might be.

[@fogboyenterprise2724]

I wonder how many hours of orientations he had to sit through just to do this news piece

[@try_neat4553]

probably one or none

[@boblynch7348]

Thank God for American ingenuity!

[@captur69]

The energy involved in franking is unbelievable....ie diesel, oil,etc...very unnatural process to the land..

[@abysaxen7367]

Torpedoes were used earlier in oil wells to increase the well flow laying the roots of "Fracturing" know more : oges.info/library/141575/DID-YOU-KNOW_-Torpedoes-were-used-earlier-in-oil

[@jbg71384]

They had the green hat vacuuming the water, lol.

[@wt1370]

It’s called containment brother. It’s all part of the job and adherence to regulations. If there’s a bunch of water laying around it’s harder to detect a potential leak. He’s still probably pulling in $75k+/yr

[@StandngOnBusiness]

Justin Gomez that green hat doing containment making more money than you

[@jbg71384]

@@StandngOnBusiness Shut the fuck up pussy. I'm sure he also makes more than you do. I was a Green hat in the oil field too. We got the worst tasks. That's why I was commenting.

[@DavidLee-ot4pz]

I admire the engineers that perfect this process and allow US to win the war of energy independence as declared by President Carter years ago.

[@rjohnson2813]

If you spell it with a "K" you have nothing to offer.

[@MarkZiegler]

They say the wells last for decades but I fear investors know better.

[@scotyfilms]

The big issue is, ALL OIL CASINGS WILL EVENTUALLY FAIL. Why? The earth moves over time, and when it moves even just a bit. It is going to break the cement and crack the Steel casings. When this happens, all hell will break loose in the clean water aquifer, destroying all of the purity in the water for human consumption. It might take 50years or 200years but this will happen and cause unseen amounts of damage to so many places all over America. There could be a solution. Do they fill the hole with cement when finished??

[@JBCarrera54]

If you put the same amount of energy into researching the process of oil drilling as you do trying to stigmatize it, you’d know there are multiple layers of cement surrounding each casing

[@JBCarrera54]

And as soon as everything is done, the well is filled with cement and a plug is welded on followed by land repair. After all of that, you can’t even tell the well was there

[@OutdoorCraftsman]

As a wireliner ( someone who inspects the casing yearly) that depends on your local state regulations some areas ie Alberta Canada they've been fracking since the 1960's and having yearly inspections. It is expensive but saved quite alot of headaches over my career

[@janegertrude9270]

@@OutdoorCraftsman thanks for your comment, hard to find much detailed info about Canada's fracking that isn't buried inside a thesis lols!. Appreciate your confirmation about the annual inspections. Cheers!

[@kevinbashnick]

Tell me how it ends in 50 /200 years

[@treasureministries]

Why are the oil companies taking so much fresh water permanently out of the system?? Can they not use salt water, sea water?? This is bad!!

[@robertnealy]

Dean Baumgartner salt water inland ? Haha

[@alphonsotate2982]

Why use dangerous chemicals guys use plain water and sand instead because the hydraulics of hydraulic pressure is what cracks the rock .

[@lizkekahbah1172]

Even if they didn't add toxic chemicals, the water would still be polluted by the arsenic and radioisotopes naturally underground, as well as by the petroleum products.

[@wt1370]

Lubrication for one thing, they’re not going to spend $ on unnecessary additives

[@hogsnplanes]

Truth no one wants to hear.

[@tommylyeah]

Marcellus Wellas.

[@eerfhcunl7212]

Nice. BP should watch this

[@tbone4u100]

It's really going to Boom after all the fracking.🕳💣💥

[@kevinbashnick]

No it'll mean lower prices as now gas fed energy plants are supplementing coal and nuclear power.

[@BrianOram]

excellent - more of these are critical

[@anibalmorales3769]

Just to show, what little information is given is what little information is believed as truth. In this reporting segment, there is no mention of the chemical mixture or the type of chemicals being used in the mix ( fracking fluid) to frack the shale. The issue is there along with the geology of the land, ie faults, rifts, etc. Also, what about the “reinjection” process, the very last process, where they dump that “recycled” chemical water back into the shale closing the well, is another point of concern. Blame the industry lobbyists, the good ole boys and your congressional body for allowing no transparency regulations in this industry. By law they don’t have to tell what chemicals they’re using the frack the shale. Everyone the reporter covered is completely invested, PR trained, and lets consider this is there bread winning careers so they’re going to show you the elements of “safety regulations,” ie containment tarps, etc. People don’t be blinded by half-truths. When there is money involved there is always room for corruption. Money is one hella-of-drug! And reporter do your homework. That’s the reason why fuk-stick ump is calling you guys “fake news” .... complacency is another hella-of-drug which is rampant in texas the dump star state.

[@wt1370]

Anibal Morales - No half truths , it was actually refreshing to see a journalist cover a story without the predetermined left wing bias we’ve come to accept as journalism.

[@levelhead4597]

@@wt1370 it was definitely useful for learning more about the technical elements of fracking, but this is literally a PR piece for industry. None of the questions he asks are challenging for the operators, as they all lead to talking points the industry has developed over the years. One way of knowing is when he says there have been no proven instances of groundwater contamination. That is just a lie, there have been many instances, whether you’re talking about produced water spills, methane migration to groundwater, etc...

[@levelhead4597]

@@wt1370 also not discussed, the degradation of pipes over time, corrosion and pinhole leaks, or emissions from the GIANT trucks, and methane releases

[@kevinbashnick]

I'd be happy to inform you on any information you might need with what goes into the ground as I was one that put it there. So please contact me.

[@Jwesd1123]

*frac

[@klyonsden]

Ok. So, it can be a lot like the movie 'The Core'. Soooo, lets frak under Russia, North Korea, and China. Maybe more later. It will be remembered as a message of 'Frak You Commies'. Ok....Got it! (getting a migraine headache).

[@morganwilliams3031]

"steel" LMFAO....you mean "Iron" buddy..

[@fogboyenterprise2724]

.. Fracks use steel tho..

[@tinavigil3904]

Question Ezra.... are you even remotely interested in presenting both sides of this issue? Or are you only interested in the candy coated rainbows and bubbles version? This company may take extra precautions. I mean it all looks good and all but how about coming to Colorado and touring real life wells and unsafe fracking wastewater disposal backed up with a ton of proof?! Or does PIONEER scare you too?!

[@Alex-xg5kr]

Fracking is the cause of the homeless crises because the micro surface quakes are destroying the foundations of buildings in a much bigger area as currently thought and admitted by the operators. The vibration also erode shore lines and cause cracks on highways!!!

[@trey8543]

“Fracking is the cause of the homeless crisis” may be the stupidest statement I’ve ever read. People are homeless because they don’t want to work and would rather sit around doing fent. Definitely wouldn’t be homeless if they cleaned up and took fracking jobs..

[@mikemeyer1888]

why does this video sound so enthusiastic about destroying our environment and our drinking water??? for frack sakes!!

[@trentcooper8894]

Its not distroying your wartter at all frac happens below the watter table

[@mikemeyer1888]

@@trentcooper8894 and washes up into our table once pressurized the casing fails

[@OutdoorCraftsman]

If it was really that bad the government would actually shut it down but when subject matter experts get their say in the voice of reason prevails keep in mind public opinion is bought and paid for and Netflix has sold out to the middle East who wants to protect their market share

[@jeremydeveraux4785]

@@OutdoorCraftsman Well said. No pun intended.

[@philclark7637]

There has been 0 proven incidents of that happening. It’s very highly regulated.

[@tarrasss1]

what a bunch of lies.

[@wt1370]

Can you please be more specific. I’ve been in the industry 6 years and it was 100% accurate

[@kevinbashnick]

I've been in it for 18 years. When you learn more the truth is even better. 🔥

[@naturalremedy8092]

Their destroying their beautiful state

[@vszasz]

You should actually watch the video before commenting like this.

[@kevinbashnick]

Their making most of their beautiful state and keeping it clean.