Fracking issues in SE Ohio.

mickeyrat

Not to far away from a drilled fracking well, that seems to be at the southern most drilling area for now. I wonder if its connected.


http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/201 ... -ohio.html

link to some info for ohio with a map that shows by county name the number of quakes since 1971?
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?ti ... d_fracking


heres a recent accounting of drilled , producing or permitted wells.
http://innovationohio.org/fracking-map/
the lowest left drilled well (blue dot) is closest to the epicenter. I peg it at approx 40 miles away.

mickeyrat

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/10/29/well_explosion.html

brianlux

There's just nothing safe or healthy anymore about our addiction to oil. Seems to me that reducing our consumption would be a good first move, then moving ahead with creating more alternatives (which would create new jobs to replace those loss by cutting back the gas and oil industry) including, here in the U.S. improving our rail service and public transit, and getting the worlds population growth to slow down... way down.

deadendp

When you crack into the earth's surface like that, you make it angry.

vickisomoya

Nothing will change until you change people's minds. We don't need new programs, we need new ways of thinking about things, like the earth is ours to do with as we please.
WRONG IDEA!

mickeyrat

so, why would you cap a well temporarily THEN drill 3 more on the same site? Do these fucking people know what they are doing?

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/12/17/families-flee-out-of-control-natural-gas-leak.html

About 25 families in eastern Ohio have been unable to live in their houses for the past three days because of a natural-gas leak at a fracking well that crews cannot stop.

Bethany McCorkle, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the state agency that regulates oil and gas, said crews lost control of the Monroe County well on Saturday.

Families were evacuated from about 25 houses within a 1.5-mile radius of the well, located near the Ohio River about 160 miles east of Columbus.

The well is not on fire, but the gas could be explosive. “There’s still a steady stream of natural gas coming from the wellhead,” McCorkle said yesterday.

The well is operated by Triad Hunter, a Texas company that also has offices in Marietta in southeastern Ohio.

The company did not return a call yesterday but said in a statement that the well had been temporarily plugged about a year ago while the company drilled and fracked three more wells on that site.

“Despite numerous precautionary measures taken in connection with the temporary plugging and abandonment operation, the well began to flow uncontrollably while recommencing production operations,” the company said.

Triad Hunter workers tried to bolt the cap back into place but couldn’t, the statement said.

Fracking involves drilling deep underground into shale formations; turning the drill horizontally; and blasting a mixture of water, sand and chemicals at high pressure to fracture the shale and free trapped oil and gas.

The well was fracked and plugged about a year ago, McCorkle said.

Triad Hunter crews were trying to unplug the well this past weekend when there was “an uncontrollable amount of pressure” that sent a stream of gas into the air, she said. The workers called for help and left. No one was injured, McCorkle said.

She said families were allowed back into their houses during the day only. Emergency responders asked that they stay away at night.

McCorkle said ODNR is investigating.

“This whole situation is uncommon in general,” she said. “A full investigation will give us more information as to what happened, what led up to the incident and why there was so much pressure."

There have been other explosions and fires at fracking wells and drilling sites in Ohio.

larenschield@dispatch.com

rgambs

There is a processing plant 2 miles from my house. They have an overflow pipe of some type that burns 24/7 with a car sized flame and thick black smoke. When it's cloudy it looks like I live near a volcano. Ridiculous.

mickeyrat

see a couple of those from the freeway. guessing thats the methane being burned off?

rgambs

I dont know exactly. I think they banned it in ND, said it had to be cleaned and not just burned off.