Gas Industry Fracture Flowback Water Treatment
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From: Richard Wice <rocky770@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 3:49 pm
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Integrated Water opens frac water treatment facility in Pennsylvania
Integrated Water Technologies Inc. (Harrisburg, PA) announced that it has started up operations at the FracPure Treatment and Recycling Facility in North Fayette Township, Pennsylvania, a facility that the company claims to be the first approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to treat wastewater from hydrological fracturing operations in the Marcellus Shale region. The facility uses chemical treatment and filtration to treat and recycle 250,000 gallons of “frac” water per day. The full-scale plant, to be completed in early 2012, will add the capability to remediate flowback brine to quality exceeding federal and state drinking water standards of 500 parts per million of total dissolved solids. Integrated Water said that it is currently engineering and permitting multiple centralized treatment plants and FracPure Mobile Onsite Treatment Units for deployment in the Marcellus Shale region.
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Rick Wice
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My response below:
Dear Rocky770 and my other gasland friends,
I wonder which of the 596 chemicals we know of (not to mention the other 50% of hydro-fracturing chemicals we don't know of) plus whatever existing NORM, and other compounds native to Marcellus and Utica shale types will they be able to remove to make this "treated" flowback waste water "drinkable"? I would like to have bottles of this "treated" "drinkable water delivered to
PA Governor Tom Corbett, his new staff, the many other PA congressional Reps who took Gas Industry Campaign money
and the executives and share holders of:
Halliburton,
Chesapeake Energy,
Volunteer Energy Natural Gas,
2178 Parksville Rd, Benton, TN, 37307
(423) 338 -2569
Intelligent Energy Natural Gas
2050 Center Ave, Fort Lee, NJ, 07024
(201) 592 -3210
Suncor Energy Natural Gas AMRC
123 W 1st St, Ste 675, Casper, WY, 82601
(307) 265 -0097
The Milano Group
Address: 1575 Hunters Chase Ohio 44145
Phone: 954-654-8144
JGR - Cork Industries
Address: Zona Industrial, Rua 4, 146 Aveiro 4520-475
Phone: +351-256-782280
Innovative Environmental Technologies Pvt. Ltd.,
Address: 207, Siddharth Towers,Near Sangam Press,, Kothrud, Pune, Maharashtra Maharashtra 411029
Phone: 91 20 25430103
Anadarko E&P Co LP,
1201 Lake Robbins Dr., The Woodlands TX 77380
Exco North Coast Energy Inc,
3000 Ericsson Dr Ste 200, Warrendale PA 15086
Rex Energy Operating Corporation,
1975 Waddle Rd, State College PA 16803
Range Resources Appalachia LLC,
380 Southpointe Blvd STE 300, Canonsburg PA 15317
Texas Keystone Inc,
560 Epsilon Dr., Pittsburgh PA 15238
Prof. Terry Engelder, (the inventor of hydro-fracture technology in the USA)
Geology Dept., PSU, University Park, State College PA 16801
Dr. Graham Spainier, President of PSU,
University Park, State College PA 16801
The NY DEC, Albany NY
The PA DEP, Harrisburg PA
The EPA, Washington D.C.
Signed,
The Fracking Truth
Gas Industry 10% flowback surface return rate NOT TRUE!
Gas Well Drilling, Fracturing and waste disposal testmony by Prof. Anthony R. Ingraffea May 2010
Dear Gas Activists,
In this LINK
http://www.garyabraham.com/files/gas_drilling/NEWSNY_in_Chemung/Ingraffe...
Here is the important excerpt:
During the fracking action, fracturing fluid, a mixture
of water, proppant (typically silica sand), and proprietary chemicals are forced down the production casing
under high pressure. The purpose of fracturing the shale in this way is to provide an incompressible medium
to transmit pressure from the wellhead to the target formation, thereby causing fractures and/or opening
existing joints in the formation. The various additives provide fracture opening control, viscosity control,
lubrication, corrosion control, bacterial growth control, wellbore and perforation cleanout. Depending on
total fracture interval, Chesapeake (CHK) reports an average of 5.5 million gallons of fracturing fluid
are used per well in their Pennsylvania operations. During this stage and, after the fracking action,
flowback fluid comes back up the casing to the surface. Fluid from flowback operation is a mixture of
fracturing fluid and brine (1), and various solids released from the Marcellus formation during the
perforating, fracking, and flowback operations, including NORM. The volume of flowback fluid returned to
the surface varies with well and length of time before the production stage. Industry sources state that
10 to 100% of fracturing fluid is returned in the first 30 days, but some of this is formation (extant) brine
and its transported materials. This fluid is initially stored in a waste pit at the drill pad, or if the fluid
is reused in subsequent fracturing action, in steel holding tanks.
The third and final stage involves capturing gas from a completed and stimulated well. However, there is a
somewhat artificial boundary in time between the flowback operation and production stage. When an operator
declares the well to be in production, fluids still coming back up the well are called "produced water"
or "formation water". This produced "water" comes back up for as long as the well is in production, but
usually at a decreasing rate. In fact, this produced "water" consists of fracturing fluid and
formation brine, all carrying the same solids materials as the frack fluid during flowback operation,
including NORM. Over time, the concentrations of the various chemical and radiological components of this
"water" change. As the well is developed, materials returned to the surface from the vertical segment
decline and the returned materials originate more and more from the horizontal segment. It is unclear
how much produced water returns to the surface. I am reliably informed that, over a few years, almost
all of the fracturing fluid returns, along with whatever extant brines were in the fractured formation.
This fluid is then stored in holding tanks on the drill pad until it can be transported to properly
equipped treatment plants or deep injection wells.
(1) Brine occurs naturally in and around the Marcellus shale formations, owning to its origins in an ocean
environment. Fracking the formation forces brine into the shale fractures, allowing the brine to leach
naturally occurring soluble radionuclides and heavy metals out of the shale, where they become concentrated
in the brine.
Thank you Proffesor Ingraffea,Ph.D.,P.E. Cornell U.
Signed,
The Fracking Truth