yourindustrynews » BPT 2nd shale gas well to spud and 2nd US shale well flowing
NORTH DAKOTA:Beach is expecting its second shale gas well, Holdfast-1, to spud later today. Beach’s second shale oil well in North Dakota USA,
Henderson Federal 4-26H, is flowing at 1,900 bopd during its clean up stage.
Despite recent localised rain in the Cooper Basin, Beach Energy Ltd (ASX: BPT, “Beach”) is expecting to spud its second shale gas well, Holdfast-1, later today. Holdfast-1 is approximately 24 kilometres to the northeast of the first shale gas well, Encounter-1. The well is targeting the same Roseneath-Epsilon-Murteree shales which are expected to be of a similar order of thickness to the first well. Holdfast-1 is planned to reach a total depth (TD) of 3,625 metres in around 60 days. Further extensive coring is planned for this second well which will assist with gas in place estimates as well as assessing the mechanical properties of the rock for optimizing fracture stimulation design.
The Henderson Federal 4-26H well (Beach ~18.4% working interest, 14.7
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Friday, January 21, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
Shale gas: The public is not reassured-St.Hilaire
Shale gas: The public is not reassured | Politics | Radio-Canada.ca
At an information meeting held Saturday, with citizens in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, a group of experts has called for a moratorium on shale gas.
According to them, the economic benefits of this industry would be negligible for Quebec.
"My view is that we have the worst business model in North America. That is to say that Quebec that there will be less money going back into the pockets of the real owners of resources that are Quebecers, "argued Normand Mousseau, a professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Montreal.
In addition, scientific information is insufficient to assess environmental risks.
The PQ member of Borduas, who attended the event, believes that the government could have done things differently.
What we can say is it's not too late, and then one of the clearest applications from all citizens, is "thus imposing a moratorium."
- Pierre Curzi
The Parti Quebecois leader, for his part criticized the handling of the case by the Minister of Natural Resources, who has admitted Friday it had made mistakes .
In Sherbrooke, where she gave the kickoff of a regional tour, Pauline Marois argued that concrete action from the Minister Natalie Normandeau would further mitigate people's fears.
At an information meeting held Saturday, with citizens in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, a group of experts has called for a moratorium on shale gas.
According to them, the economic benefits of this industry would be negligible for Quebec.
"My view is that we have the worst business model in North America. That is to say that Quebec that there will be less money going back into the pockets of the real owners of resources that are Quebecers, "argued Normand Mousseau, a professor in the Department of Physics of the University of Montreal.
In addition, scientific information is insufficient to assess environmental risks.
The PQ member of Borduas, who attended the event, believes that the government could have done things differently.
What we can say is it's not too late, and then one of the clearest applications from all citizens, is "thus imposing a moratorium."
- Pierre Curzi
The Parti Quebecois leader, for his part criticized the handling of the case by the Minister of Natural Resources, who has admitted Friday it had made mistakes .
In Sherbrooke, where she gave the kickoff of a regional tour, Pauline Marois argued that concrete action from the Minister Natalie Normandeau would further mitigate people's fears.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Fracking the life out of Arkansas and beyond | Food Freedom
Fracking the life out of Arkansas and beyond | Food Freedom
7 UPDATE: Missing from this report is the information that the US military apparently drilled 500 deep wells in Central Arkansas to dispose of phosgene, a highly toxic gas that causes the respiratory system to explode. (As reported below, deep well drilling causes earthquakes.) According to the EU Times, Russia’s spy agency, GRU, reported that the US relocated 63,000 metric tons of phosgene from Iraq to the Arkansas’ Pine Bluff Arsenal, the nation’s premier chemical and bio weapons lab. Some or most of this material was and continues to be relocated to Afghanistan.
The GRU report claims that while transporting the gas via a US Air Force KC-767 tanker aircraft, a “malfunction” occurred in the aerial spraying system on December 30, killing 100,000 fish along a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River near Roseville. The next day, on another KC-767, again the aerial spraying system “malfunctioned” killing 5,000 blackbirds near Beebe.
7 UPDATE: Missing from this report is the information that the US military apparently drilled 500 deep wells in Central Arkansas to dispose of phosgene, a highly toxic gas that causes the respiratory system to explode. (As reported below, deep well drilling causes earthquakes.) According to the EU Times, Russia’s spy agency, GRU, reported that the US relocated 63,000 metric tons of phosgene from Iraq to the Arkansas’ Pine Bluff Arsenal, the nation’s premier chemical and bio weapons lab. Some or most of this material was and continues to be relocated to Afghanistan.
The GRU report claims that while transporting the gas via a US Air Force KC-767 tanker aircraft, a “malfunction” occurred in the aerial spraying system on December 30, killing 100,000 fish along a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River near Roseville. The next day, on another KC-767, again the aerial spraying system “malfunctioned” killing 5,000 blackbirds near Beebe.
Oil and Gas Collection: Hydraulic Fracturing, Toxic Chemicals and the Surge of Earthquake Activity in Arkansas
Oil and Gas Collection: Hydraulic Fracturing, Toxic Chemicals and the Surge of Earthquake Activity in Arkansas
The last four months of 2010, nearly 500 earthquakes rattled Guy, Arkansas. [1] The entire state experienced 38 quakes in 2009. [2] The spike in quake frequency precedes and coincides with the 100,000 dead fish on a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River that included Roseville Township on December 30. The next night, 5,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings dropped dead out of the sky in Beebe. [3] Hydraulic fracturing is the most likely culprit for all three events, as it causes earthquakes with a resultant release of toxins into the environment. [4]
A close look at Arkansas’ history of earthquakes and drilling reveals a shocking surge in quake frequency following advanced drilling. The number of quakes in 2010 nearly equals all of Arkansas’ quakes for the entire 20th century. The oil and gas industry denies any correlation, but the advent of hydrofracking followed by earthquakes is a story repeated across the nation. It isn’t going to stop any time soon, either. Fracking has gone global.
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) pumps water and chemicals into the ground at a pressurized rate exceeding what the bedrock can withstand, resulting in a microquake that produces rock fractures. Though initiated in 1947, technological advances now allow horizontal fracturing, vastly increasing oil and gas collection. [5] In 1996, shale-gas production in the U.S. accounted for 2 percent of all domestic natural gas production, reports Christopher Bateman in Vanity Fair. “Some industry analysts predict shale gas will represent a full half of total domestic gas production within 10 years.” [6] In 2000, U.S. gas reserve estimates stood at 177 trillion cubic feet, but ramped up to 245 tcf in 2008. These new technologies prompt experts to increase global gas reserve estimates ninefold. [7]
The grid below shows a section of the Arkansas River, with Roseville Township at bottom, where the first reports of the fish kill originated. The green lines surrounding and crossing the river indicate gas pipes, ranging from 8-20” in diameter. Any number of leaks in the pipes can explain the fish kill. Gas wells are shown by yellow ‘suns’ (see red arrows) and range from 1,500 to 6,500 feet deep. (Disposal wells, where drilling waste products are injected at high pressures, go as deep as 12,000 feet.) The red numbers next to the ‘suns’ give the number of gas wells in that spot, numbering close to 50 in this small area. [8]
The last four months of 2010, nearly 500 earthquakes rattled Guy, Arkansas. [1] The entire state experienced 38 quakes in 2009. [2] The spike in quake frequency precedes and coincides with the 100,000 dead fish on a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River that included Roseville Township on December 30. The next night, 5,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings dropped dead out of the sky in Beebe. [3] Hydraulic fracturing is the most likely culprit for all three events, as it causes earthquakes with a resultant release of toxins into the environment. [4]
A close look at Arkansas’ history of earthquakes and drilling reveals a shocking surge in quake frequency following advanced drilling. The number of quakes in 2010 nearly equals all of Arkansas’ quakes for the entire 20th century. The oil and gas industry denies any correlation, but the advent of hydrofracking followed by earthquakes is a story repeated across the nation. It isn’t going to stop any time soon, either. Fracking has gone global.
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) pumps water and chemicals into the ground at a pressurized rate exceeding what the bedrock can withstand, resulting in a microquake that produces rock fractures. Though initiated in 1947, technological advances now allow horizontal fracturing, vastly increasing oil and gas collection. [5] In 1996, shale-gas production in the U.S. accounted for 2 percent of all domestic natural gas production, reports Christopher Bateman in Vanity Fair. “Some industry analysts predict shale gas will represent a full half of total domestic gas production within 10 years.” [6] In 2000, U.S. gas reserve estimates stood at 177 trillion cubic feet, but ramped up to 245 tcf in 2008. These new technologies prompt experts to increase global gas reserve estimates ninefold. [7]
The grid below shows a section of the Arkansas River, with Roseville Township at bottom, where the first reports of the fish kill originated. The green lines surrounding and crossing the river indicate gas pipes, ranging from 8-20” in diameter. Any number of leaks in the pipes can explain the fish kill. Gas wells are shown by yellow ‘suns’ (see red arrows) and range from 1,500 to 6,500 feet deep. (Disposal wells, where drilling waste products are injected at high pressures, go as deep as 12,000 feet.) The red numbers next to the ‘suns’ give the number of gas wells in that spot, numbering close to 50 in this small area. [8]
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Munk 14,October 2010
Todd Lane
Description
This conference is designed to inform public opinion about the potential impact of hydraulic fracturing on Canadian water supplies resulting from efforts to develop shale gas. Technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing previously thought too expensive or complicated to develop have made it possible to recover natural gas from shale formations with the aim of increasing domestic and continental energy security.
The conference will provide an opportunity for interactive public comment and dialogue from a wide range of experts representing government, environmental sciences, law, non-governmental organizations, First Nations, academe, industry and engineering.
Draft agenda available at www.powi.ca.
Description
This conference is designed to inform public opinion about the potential impact of hydraulic fracturing on Canadian water supplies resulting from efforts to develop shale gas. Technologies such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing previously thought too expensive or complicated to develop have made it possible to recover natural gas from shale formations with the aim of increasing domestic and continental energy security.
The conference will provide an opportunity for interactive public comment and dialogue from a wide range of experts representing government, environmental sciences, law, non-governmental organizations, First Nations, academe, industry and engineering.
Draft agenda available at www.powi.ca.
Encanna,Hydrolic Drilling,& Contamination of water
Ironically, a Canadian company Encana- who are not just a Canadian company has some of the wells in Penn or NY where the contamination has gone as far as civil suits I beleive.
You probabably wont be able to tell anything by who eventually gets the leases in Quebec, let alone who bids on them. Chance are it is some junior company from Calgary, and as with all explorarion ownership shares and outright whole ownership will change along the way. If the leases do go all the way to commercial production they will have at least a large ownership chunk by the big players like Encana or Shell, who may or may not be the operator at that point.
But I would think that in Quebec most if not all of the leases have been sold. At that stage you are still a long way from drilling, and on most leases in the ened their wont be any serious activity at all.
All the companies will tell you how careful they are, how many procedures they have, some of them redundant even [as in commercial aircraft safety requirements]. And they are being truthful.
The problem is that with all, shit happens. You are blasting fissures into rock, a lot of which is in the water table, and you are pumping in vast quantities of solvents. Not to mention the huge amount of water required, that has to be cleaned before being discharged to waterways.
Where they are manipulating the truth systematically is around the probabilities of this stuff happening.
In the public persentations they just talk about all the safeguards. Unfortunately, thats enough for too many people who live over this. But for those who do push the PR people harder, they have all the answers that make it seem as unlikely as a nuclear reactor meltdown.
I goy $5,000 out of the company drilling here for our school library. Its funny, because I knew that be happy for what they would assume would be good PR. Cheap even. But this is an area where everything is known about everybody, so the fact I got the money was seen as locals fleece the
You probabably wont be able to tell anything by who eventually gets the leases in Quebec, let alone who bids on them. Chance are it is some junior company from Calgary, and as with all explorarion ownership shares and outright whole ownership will change along the way. If the leases do go all the way to commercial production they will have at least a large ownership chunk by the big players like Encana or Shell, who may or may not be the operator at that point.
But I would think that in Quebec most if not all of the leases have been sold. At that stage you are still a long way from drilling, and on most leases in the ened their wont be any serious activity at all.
All the companies will tell you how careful they are, how many procedures they have, some of them redundant even [as in commercial aircraft safety requirements]. And they are being truthful.
The problem is that with all, shit happens. You are blasting fissures into rock, a lot of which is in the water table, and you are pumping in vast quantities of solvents. Not to mention the huge amount of water required, that has to be cleaned before being discharged to waterways.
Where they are manipulating the truth systematically is around the probabilities of this stuff happening.
In the public persentations they just talk about all the safeguards. Unfortunately, thats enough for too many people who live over this. But for those who do push the PR people harder, they have all the answers that make it seem as unlikely as a nuclear reactor meltdown.
I goy $5,000 out of the company drilling here for our school library. Its funny, because I knew that be happy for what they would assume would be good PR. Cheap even. But this is an area where everything is known about everybody, so the fact I got the money was seen as locals fleece the
Natural Shale Gas Quebec Drilling
Both in Pennsylvania and New York has water contamination been noted. That would be awful to see happen here in Quebec. (Hopefully our government could regulate possibly environmentally damaging processes better than the Americans can.) I always thought that we should be working towards greener energy and Quebec as a province lacking in industry could provide a fertile ground for green innovation. Unfortunately the media has covered it very little which won't help opposition to the project, this issue could use a little bit of sensationalism. Perhaps CBC should air this documentary or something: (most epic trailer for a doc ever.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe1AeH0Qz8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZe1AeH0Qz8
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