Frac for more oil.

This post is to add a little more on the last post as well as to give you a good laugh.  Fracturing and stimulating wells, to increase hydrocarbon production, has angered many people in terms of ground water contamination.  Groundwater contamination can be due to many other things rather than just drilling and stimulation, such as land fill waste, factory or plant waste disposal and other things.  The blame seems to be entirely aimed at drilling activity however.  Fracturing occurs in zones which contain hydrocarbons.  These reservoir zones are typically 8,000 feet deep or can be up to 12,000 feet in deeper wells.  This is the depth at which hydraulic fracturing and acidizing takes place.  The groundwater aquifer is near 100 feet deep and not remotely close to the fracturing chemicals being used to stimulate reservoirs.  The chances of these chemicals traveling through several alternating impermeable layers of rock to the groundwater source is very very unlikely.  Just another example of blame being fired at oil companies when other sources of contamination are igonred during the first steps of pointing fingers.  Below is a hilarious video (possibly slightly improper) in my opinion that doesn't have much to do about actual fracturing of wells but none the less will provide a good laugh.  Enjoy!