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Frackers becoming new revenue stream for waste water companies

BANGALORE - Increasing pressure for U.S. shale gas drillers to clean up their act from hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” has opened a new revenue stream for companies that treat waste water and make water filters.

The technique of blasting water, chemicals and sand thousands of feet into tight rock formations to release trapped natural gas has boosted production from shale fields, but is criticized by environmentalists for polluting groundwater.

State regulators have not gone as far as some environmental groups want — a ban on hydraulic fracturing — but they do want drillers to improve the treatment of harmful waste water from their operations.

And this is welcome new business for the likes of Nalco Holding, Canada’s Aqua-Pure Ventures, Pall Corp, Pentair and Clean Harbors.

Ecosphere Technologies, General Electric, Siemens and Veolia Environnement are also vying for a share of the waste water cleanup market...

AQU on tuttu nimi kiitos PQ:n. Kanadassa on listattuna joitakin jätteiden prosessointipisteiden operaattoreita. Useimmilla näistä ei ole käytössä juurikaan omaa teknologiaa, mutta laitosten sijainnilla on valtaisa merkitys: pieni yhtiö voi kasvaa nopeasti, jos sillä on toimipiste kehittyvän, frakkausta vaativan resurssin läheisyydessä.

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Southwester Energyn Fayetteville shale kaasu-kaivon kustannusten koostumus:

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EOG skripti:

Regarding oil, our individual wells are performing as expected. But we underestimated the downtime for patent drilling and delays for frac equipment. As we previously stated, optimizing shale oil or gas recovery requires drilling five or six side-by-side wells, frac-ing them simultaneously and only then turning all wells to production. Therefore, if frac equipment is delayed, it doesn't affect only one well but cascades to five or six wells and the associated production. We believe our updated volume estimates now account for this methodology.

To give you a little more color on these frac equipment delays, we're currently experiencing delays in almost every one of our divisions and have about 100 wells experiencing delays. Since most of our budget is oil wells, this disproportionately affects oil volumes. These delays won't go away anytime soon. And our new 2011 and 2012 growth forecasts assume the frac delays continue until at least mid-2011.

Mark Papa

That's a good point. Let me correct one thing. I misspoke a little bit earlier. I said 160 miles for the Eagle Ford. That's really 120 miles with a possible 20-mile extension. In terms of the frac situation between April and today, it's really gotten worse, I mean, worse from a producer's viewpoint. It's literally at a point now where if we want to frac a well, and we call up one of the major service companies, typically they'll say, "Well, we can get to you maybe right after the first of year. And the price, we'll tell you the first of year. But it's going to be even higher than your worst case scenario to frac this well. And if you don't like that particular price availability, well, we've got a lot of other people had a needing fracs. But I would say we certainly had a peak drilling activity several years ago, when gas was $9 or $10 and there was a frenzy of activity. But the frac situation was not as tight then as it is today, in my opinion.

Jotkut analyytikot ovat arvioineet ensi vuonna olevan ylikapasiteettiä painepumppauksessa, mutta tarpeeseen näyttää tulevan uusi kalusto.

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