{"id":36629,"date":"2018-08-14T07:59:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36629"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:59:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:59:30","slug":"the-fracking-industry-is-cannibalizing-its-own-production-increasing-spill-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36629","title":{"rendered":"The Fracking Industry Is Cannibalizing Its Own Production, Increasing Spill Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Fracking Industry Is Cannibalizing Its Own Production, Increasing Spill Risks<\/a><\/h3>\n
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In the climactic final scene<\/a> in There Will Be Blood \u2014\u00a0arguably the greatest movie<\/a> about the oil industry \u2014\u00a0the main character played by Daniel Day Lewis explains how he sucked the oil from a neighbor\u2019s land by using horizontal drilling. To help his neighbor understand what has happened, he explains it by saying he took a very long straw and \u201cDrank your\u00a0milkshake!\u201d<\/p>\n

Well guess what is happening with the fracking revolution that is built on the concept of horizontal drilling<\/a>? Not only are oil producers drinking each other\u2019s milkshakes, they are drinking their own, and in the process losing even more money and raising the odds of dangerous environmental\u00a0risks.<\/p>\n

And unlike in the movie where the main character knew what he was doing,\u00a0the modern fracking industry really has no clue what to do about the problems caused by the combination of horizontal drilling and\u00a0greed.<\/p>\n

Frac Hits, aka Child\u00a0Wells <\/strong><\/p>\n

The first thing to understand is that this is simply a problem of the industry being greedy. The oil producers are drilling too many wells<\/a> in close proximity to one another, and when they frack the newer wells \u2014\u00a0known as child wells \u2014\u00a0those \u201cbash\u201d <\/a>or \u201chit<\/a>\u201d\u00a0the older wells and cause\u00a0problems.<\/p>\n

In a typical frack site, the production begins with a first test well, which is known as the parent well. The wells drilled in proximity to the parent well are called child\u00a0wells.<\/p>\n

What is happening is that not only are the child wells cannibalizing the production of the existing parent well, but when the child wells are fracked they can create \u201cfrac hits\u201d that damage the parent well.<\/p>\n

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The Fracking Industry Is Cannibalizing Its Own Production, Increasing Spill Risks In the climactic final scene in There Will Be Blood \u2014\u00a0arguably the greatest movie about the oil industry \u2014\u00a0the main character played by Daniel Day Lewis explains how he sucked the oil from a neighbor\u2019s land by using horizontal drilling. To help his neighbor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5317,331,11782,1462],"class_list":["post-36629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-desmog-blog","tag-fracking","tag-justin-mikulka","tag-shale-oil-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36630,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36629\/revisions\/36630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}