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Zaab

Joined 13 years ago

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Current undergrad at PSU in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering. Interested in light coding, Linux, and entrepreneurial articles. Also, would like to bring some light to the oil industry, as it is less intrusive and more technologically advanced than the public believes.
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Comment · 13 years ago
From drilling to producing there maybe many companies working on the well. Land is usually owned by big oil producers (Shell,Exxon,BP, etc) while the drilling, casing (protects the ground water), and hydraulic fracturing jobs may all be done by separate service companies.

All in all, yes these barriers should hold and safety factors are taken into consideration. But when the service company doing the casing job recommends job A that will surely hold but the land holding company wants job B which is cheaper and might fail, who's at fault when it fails?

Comment · 13 years ago
Further evidence the methane found in well waters is not caused by fracking. The methane found is biomethane produced from decomposition of animals.

http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-109/issue-49/explor...

Comment · 13 years ago
It was the first time I felt the I had something worth of HN, wither it be a comment or article.

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