More diesel news; when it rains............
More diesels bound for US market. This sucks. Diesel is about 10 cents higher then regular around here. :) If every soccer mom in the US gets a diesel it will drive #2 up, up, up and out of sight. ...
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JamesBr wrote:mpierce wrote:JamesBr wrote:
Fracking is used to extract natural gas, not crude oil distillates.
Wow. Talk about wrong info posted! I guess everything on the internet is not true! LOL
Please show me where fracking has produced diesel or any other crude oil distilate? And out of all the the production from fracking, the majority is for natural gas, not for crude oil.
Good grief man! My nephew works for one of the biggest suppliers of fracking products in Williston ND. He says they frack every well drilled!
And it is mostly ALL crude oil they are producing up there right now.
BNSF railroad and Canadian Pacific railroad, due to just no pipeline capacity, are moving more than 1.5 million barrels of oil each day out by unit oil tanker trains.
My nephews company specializes in the special sand used for fracking. He says it is a uniformed grain size of sand they get out of Wisconsin. Says it looks like sand one sees on any beach, a really lite coloring to it.
Right now, they use up to 15,000 pounds of this sand per well to frack it. There is also diesel fuel and other chemicals I guess used in the process, but the exact things they use, besides the sand, I am not really aware of.
Also, and this was new to me, I thought they did this fracking process while the big drilling rig was in place. Well, WRONG!
They finish drilling, remove the drilling rig and place a pump valve head on the piping coming out of the ground. Then they frack the well, using the sand and chemicals.
So yes, fracking IS used for crude oil production. The Bakken field making all the news would be nowhere without it. All those wells are drilled both vertically, then horizontally, then fracked.
