Showing posts with label strategic sales of oil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strategic sales of oil. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

FRAC OIL AND GAS

(From a post on Motley Fool, Macro Economic Trends and Risks Board # 441799)

I don't know about you, but I don't feel good about the U.S. exporting frac oil.  The news this morning was all excitement over the U.S. becoming the largest exporter of oil in 20 yrs (or something).   I have been for frac oil (and natural gas) because I thought it would get us out of the Middle East debacle. But frac oil uses lots of resources, the most important being an average of 3 million gallons of water PER HOLE. So far as I know, little of this water is recycled for other holes and even less is reclaimed. Water is a resource also! And those vicious compounds that are being poured into the water to "enhance" recovery of oil and natural gas come from something also. You don't just drill a hole and oil or natural gas comes rushing out. A lot else is involved.

And even to export LNG (Liquid Natural Gas), the process is expensive and a LOT of NG is wasted to cool the supply ships and the pipes carrying the LNG and producing the LNG.

Though I can see some value in strategic sales, I donno, it looks like a great waste to me if it is done just for revenue.