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What is the diameter of the fracking hole in a horizontal oil and gas well?
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What is fracking with oil wells?
Fracking is when a high pressure solution of water, acids, etc. is injected deep into a drill hole (usually horizontally drilled not vertically drilled) with the intention of causing fracturing of the rock layers around the hole, allowing trapped oil and gas to escape from that rock and collect in the drill hole. This causes a significant increase in well production and in many cases can transform a "worked out" field of dry wells into a valuable actively producing field again. Unfortunately sometimes the fractures enter aquifers polluting the water in wells depending on that aquifer.
What is the diameter of a oil well drill hole?
Wikipedia states wells can be anywhere from 5 to 36 inches. An oil well may have a number of casings, which fit inside each other. So a well might start off with an initial 20 inch diameter, drill a short distance, perhaps 200 ft, and then cement in a conductor casing and begin to drill a smaller diameter hole. Very common diameters for wells at the completion depth is 7 to 12 inches. Slimholes are any well with less than 4.5". See links. In well design, the well diameter is often a function of the casing design, which in turn is based on expected formation pressures that will be encountered during drilling.
What economic activities are associated with man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma?
Something called fracking is causing earthquakes. Fracking is a way to remove oil and natural gas from underground. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking (a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under high pressure into a well, cracking the rock and to release natural gas and oil) is sometimes the cause of earthquakes.
What is the hole bored into the zone of saturation?
well
Is a hole that is dug into the ground to obtain freshwater?
well
What is over the hole insurance?
A rider for a commercial general liability policy that covers work done over top a well or hole for a well. Typically contractors that do wellhead work as well as wire lining, fracking, etc must carry over the hole insurance.
What is the effects of fracking?
Fracking, which is the process of pumping an agent into a well under pressure, is not performed correctly there is a possibility of contamination of the ground water.
How do you set up a mine?
Well i would think that you would first dig a hole going vertical then switch to going horizontal then you find stuff in the hole
How deep do the fracking wells go?
Fracking originally started in the 1940s. There is no known distance that s for sure on how far fracking wells go. It is basically that they go down as far as they need to to get oil out of a well underground.
Is the black hole big?
Well if your comparing the smallest black hole knowen to humans to the Earth YES THEY ARE BIG but there is no definant diameter or size considering that all black holes are unique in all three size diameter and gravataional pull.
What is fracking with oil wells?
Fracking is when a high pressure solution of water, acids, etc. is injected deep into a drill hole (usually horizontally drilled not vertically drilled) with the intention of causing fracturing of the rock layers around the hole, allowing trapped oil and gas to escape from that rock and collect in the drill hole. This causes a significant increase in well production and in many cases can transform a "worked out" field of dry wells into a valuable actively producing field again. Unfortunately sometimes the fractures enter aquifers polluting the water in wells depending on that aquifer.
How big do event horizons get?
Assuming you mean the event horizon of a black hole (there are other types as well), the diameter of a black hole as measured by its event horizon is directly proportional to its mass. The larger the mass, the larger the diameter. Thus, as a black hole's mass increases, it will get bigger. The only limitation is how much mass a black hole is able to incorporate from its surroundings.
What is the diameter of a oil well drill hole?
Wikipedia states wells can be anywhere from 5 to 36 inches. An oil well may have a number of casings, which fit inside each other. So a well might start off with an initial 20 inch diameter, drill a short distance, perhaps 200 ft, and then cement in a conductor casing and begin to drill a smaller diameter hole. Very common diameters for wells at the completion depth is 7 to 12 inches. Slimholes are any well with less than 4.5". See links. In well design, the well diameter is often a function of the casing design, which in turn is based on expected formation pressures that will be encountered during drilling.
What are the positives of fracking?
Well simply it is a new source of oil/gas, that we have plenty of. It will mean that when we run out of oil from traps (the current way to get oil) we will have enough oil and gas to last us another 50 or more years (this is an estimate and to be truthful we still have know idea how much oil is available from fracking). Fracking will open up a load of new jobs. However this will just replace the old jobs of conventional oil/gas extraction. At first fracking will make oil and gas cheaper in the market. This is because if there is more oil there is less demand for it so prices go down. However when oil from fracking runs out, then we will be back at the same step as we are now. Fracking is not as bad as people make it out to be - if it is monitored and regulated. The only problem is who is going to do that, because at the moment it is done by the fracking companies. Do we know if they are telling the truth? For them profit is more important than the environment. However in my opinion I am still against fracking. And it is not water pollution and earthquakes that bother me but the environmental horizon if we choose to take the path of fracking (continuing to do fracking in America or starting to frack in the UK). The oil and gas from fracking is the same as it is from conventional oil extraction methods. I believe that fracking will become another excuse to look away from turning to eco-friendly energy sources. Fracking may become another short term cop-out for the government's energy crisis but in the long term it is just destroying the environment with global warming. Sorry if the last question was off topic but I wanted to give another view to the truth of fracking.
What is Fracking?
Fracking is a new method for extracting natural gas from shale rocks. Wells are drilled down to these and then heavy mud injected to hydraulically fracture the shale rocks. The fractures release the gas trapped in the rocks which is then extracted at thew well head.
What economic activities are associated with man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma?
Something called fracking is causing earthquakes. Fracking is a way to remove oil and natural gas from underground. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking (a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under high pressure into a well, cracking the rock and to release natural gas and oil) is sometimes the cause of earthquakes.
Can you fit a square peg into a round hole?
sure! if the diagonal measurement across the opposing corners of the square peg is equal to or smaller than the diameter of the round hole it will definitely fit. as to how WELL it fits is a whole 'nother story,now,don'cha see? :)
