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Published on Thursday, 17 May 2012 20:49
Written by Ryen Caenn
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FracFocus: Chemical Disclosure Registry

Welcome to FracFocus, the hydraulic fracturing chemical registry website. This website is a joint project of the Ground Water Protection Council and the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.  On this site you can search for information about the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells. You will also find educational materials designed to help you put this information in perspective.

This website lists information on the type chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing. It also has detailed information on:

  • Fracturing - How it works
  • Groundwater - Protection
  • Regulations - By state
  • Wellsite Information - By state

Wesite link - http://fracfocus.org/

 

Arrested BP Engineer Kurt Mix Responds to Government's Indictment - "Dismiss"

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Published on Tuesday, 15 May 2012 17:45
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Forbes.comArrested BP Engineer Kurt Mix Responds to Government's Indictment - "Dismiss"

Walter Pavlo, Contributor - 5/14/2012 @ 6:20PM

Kurt Mix - BP EngineerOn April 24, 2012, just a little over two years after The Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, an arrest was made of former BP drilling project engineer Kurt Mix.  Mix, was not responsible for the explosion, the loss of life associated with the explosion nor the millions of barrels of oil dumped into the Gulf Of Mexico.  Mix, who like other engineers from BP, was working countless hours, under pressure to stop the flow of oil that was spewing out at a rate of …. well that’s what everyone is trying to determine.  How much oil spilled?

Read  the full article - http://www.forbes.com/sites/walterpavlo/2012/05/14/former-bp-engineer-kurt-mix-responds-to-governments-indictment-dismiss/

 

 

Drilling Fluids in Canada

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Published on Wednesday, 02 May 2012 23:48
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Alberta Oil MagazineHi-tech drilling spawns a muddy boom
Innovators are paying more attention to a critical ingredient

By Richard Cantwell in Alberta Oil magazine

In the oily depths several kilometers beneath the surface, it’s easy for things to go seriously wrong. Drill bits can get stuck. Friction can build up, halting progress. Trapped hydrocarbons can surge to surface in a blowout. Holes can cave in, trapping millions of dollars of equipment.

One product can help manage all of those problems. It is drilling fluid or, as it’s known across an industry dependent on chemical cocktails to smooth progress underground, mud.

Drilling mud has always been a critical part of drilling a well – but never more than today, amidst a technological revolution that is sending drill bits farther and farther underground in search of oil and gas reserves once considered impossible to extract.

Mud, once a boring necessity, has become an increasingly prominent part of oil and gas extraction operations, enabling the drilling of holes that grow more complex by the year. Mud research has become a key driver for the companies that make it – several of them Canadian, and growing fast – as drillers seek products that enable underground feats.

Today, wells can extend three kilometers down and another three across – but not without the right fluids to lubricate the way. “It would be very difficult to drill some of these horizontal wells without those particular muds,” says Joe Bruce, CEO of Nabors Canada, one of the largest drillers in the country. For an industry that has used drilling fluids about as long as it’s been drilling, the reliance on high-tech new fluids constitutes an important shift, and for the companies that make them, a rising opportunity.

Read the full article at Alberta Oil