Il suicidio del fracking

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Shale gas: dalla rivoluzione ai necrologi - Il Fatto Quotidiano

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E poi nel mondo reale...:

The newest U.S. export may leave Russia with excess gas

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How Ineos' giant Dragon ships will carry US shale gas to Scottish shores


FROM next year, US shale gas will arrive in Grangemouth on a "virtual pipeline" across the Atlantic.Eventually eight ships will be continuously moving 40,000 barrels of liquefied gas a day originally from Pennsylvania, via docks near Philadelphia, to Scotland and Rafnes in Norway.
The operation will be ongoing every day for 15 years, which Ineos says will secure the future of the Grangemouth plant which has suffered following a significant downturn in North Sea gas production. Gas is an essential raw material for much of what is manufactured at Grangemouth and is also used to power the facility.
The first two of an eight ship fleet, costing around £75 million each, were officially named yesterday at a ceremony in Shanghai, China. Shale gas will be liquefied and transported at -90C in the ships, which it would be impossible to move at such scale at normal temperatures. The vessels are the first of their kind ever created, with none ever created capable of carrying so much ethane in pressurised tanks.
Jim Ratcliffe, the Ineos chairman, said: "It was an enormous engineering problem to crack because you can't transport gas. Gas takes up too much space and it's too expensive to transport. So you have to liquefy the gas which means -90 degrees and everything needs to be built to cope with these immensely low temperatures."


He added: "We have seen how US shale gas revolutionised US manufacturing and we believe these huge ships will help do the same for Europe... The scale of the whole project is truly breathtaking."
At Grangemouth, new docks and a pipeline network have been built to store the gas. It will be held at a 40 metre high ethane storage tank, capable of storing 33,000 tonnes of liquid gas making it Europe's largest. The tank is being built as part of a £450m investment in the site, Scotland's largest manufacturing complex, which was agreed after its future came under threat following industrial disputes in 2013.
Over the course of the 15-year contract, each ship will travel the equivalent of five return trips from the Earth to the moon. More than 800,000 tonnes of ethane gas will be transported every year.
Steffen Jacobsen, CEO of Evergas, the Danish gas shipping firm that designed the ships, said: "I have worked in the gas shipping business for 35 years and it's fair to say that these ships represent a world first on many levels. No-one has ever tried to ship ethane in these quantities and over this distance before. To do this, we had to invent completely new ways of doing things. These ships are truly unique."
While Europe is a long way from embracing fracking, the process has revolutionised the energy industry in the United States.
In the USA, there are more than one million wells. The price of natural gas has plummeted in recent years, offering a huge boost to manufacturing. Many analysts believe the prevalence of US fracking - offering a secure energy supply and valuable jobs - avoided huge volatility in the oil price that might have been expected following the recent volatility in the Middle East.
Mr Ratcliffe claimed to The Herald that fracking in America was non-controversial. "I did a tour a year ago for a week," he said. "I just went from one fracking site to another, they were drilling on some, fracking on others. Next door to schools, some were under airports, they were all over the place. Nobody was in the slightest bit fussed about it."
While some areas have undoubtedly benefited from fracking, a method of extracting natural gas from under the ground by injecting high-pressure liquids and chemicals to crack the rock and release the hydrocarbons within, it is not universally welcomed. In some areas, it encounters huge opposition.
Indeed, some states have banned fracking altogether, over concerns that it causes earthquakes, risks polluting the water supply and is damaging to health. Last December, New York banned fracking citing the potential for "significant health risks."


In Colorado, several cities voted to ban the technique back in 2012.
Meanwhile, moratoriums has been imposed across Europe. The UK (George Osborne has spoken out in support of a "shale gas revolution"), Denmark and Poland are seen as the only states with an open mind about fracking. Germany has imposed tough restrictions with France also banning the practice.


How Ineos' giant Dragon ships will carry US shale gas to Scottish shores (From Herald Scotland)

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FROM next year, US shale gas will arrive in Grangemouth on a "virtual pipeline" across the Atlantic.Eventually eight ships will be continuously moving 40,000 barrels of liquefied gas a day originally from Pennsylvania, via docks near Philadelphia, to Scotland and Rafnes in Norway.

Metabooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!

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Petrochemical giant Ineos has taken a major step towards securing its future - and thousands of local jobs.


One of the biggest employers in the district is celebrating after completing the build of the largest ethane storage tank in Europe at its Grangemouth site which will house liquified shale gas shipped from the United States.
The £200 million project, hailed as a major feat of engineering, is part of a planned £450 million spend being driven by the shale gas revolution in America which has created hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in tax revenue.

Bosses say that when one of Europe’s most ambitious industrial projects comes on line in little over a year from now it will provide a secure supply of vital feedstock for the next 15 years that will protect its workforce and “transform” Grangemouth into a market leader.

Ineos has taken the ‘shale gas route’ because the volume of essential ethane from its traditional source, the North Sea, is in decline and led to production at its huge complex to be cut by more than half.
It desperately needed a new source of ethane gas and is backing shale gas - produced by the controversial hydraulic fracturing process which has been slammed by environmental groups as “dangerous” - as the way ahead.
The concrete tank is 56 metres in diameter and 44 metres high - big enough to fit 560 double decker buses inside.
It took six months to construct and the capacity to hold over 60,000 cubic metres of ethane.

Ineos raise the roof on its Grangemouth future - Falkirk Herald



Mi ricordo, quando un paio i annetti fa Metabo, tutto sicuro diceva che MAI avrebbero esportato GAS..e gli si faceva notare che vi erano i permessi, le ristrutturazioni dei terminali, da import ad export, la costruzione di navi pr il trasporto.. ecc ecc... ovviamente non vivendo in un video gioco, tutto questo richiede di un lasso di tempo... ahhh le solite profezie Metaboliane..

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E ti credo...non sono capaci !!!!!!

I russi devono coinvolgere sempre le compagnie occidentali per estrarre petrolio in aree difficili !!

Quando si trattava di trivellare fino a 500-1000 metri (era sovietica) lo potevano fare loro (peraltro distruggendo l'ambiente)...ma oggi che si deve andare a 2000-2500 metri servono tecnologie e tecniche che i russi non hanno e le devono comprare.

Figuarsi mettersi a praticare il fracking e l'horizontal.

ah ah ah passavo casualmente di qua per vedere come il solito duo tentava di arrampicarsi con le unghie sugli specchi per sostenere il loro fracking ...poi leggo il primo commento di cui sopra dove si dice che pozzi a 2000 -2500 metri necessitano di tecnologie che i russi non hanno...e mi fermo per non buttare il pc fuori ..
Solo ricordo che il crapapelata ( Benito per capirci) negli anni 40 perforava in pianura padani a 3000 metri ( Fontevivo etc)
robb de matt!!!!

ed i russi nel nuovo millennio non sono capaci di fare simili pozzetti????

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ah ah ah passavo casualmente di qua per vedere come il solito duo tentava di arrampicarsi con le unghie sugli specchi per sostenere il loro fracking ...poi leggo il primo commento di cui sopra dove si dice che pozzi a 2000 -2500 metri necessitano di tecnologie che i russi non hanno...e mi fermo per non buttare il pc fuori ..
Solo ricordo che il crapapelata ( Benito per capirci) negli anni 40 perforava in pianura padani a 3000 metri ( Fontevivo etc)
robb de matt!!!!

ed i russi nel nuovo millennio non sono capaci di fare simili pozzetti????

Beh il "duo" come lei definisce sta avendo ragione... O già si è dimenticato le boiate che diceva?

Per certo è' la stessa Gazprom (articolo linkato in questo stesso 3D) che indica che inizia lo sfruttamento commerciale degli shale in Russia, ma che in assenza
Del know How Occidentale ci vorrà molto più tempo e soldi.



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ExxonMobil shows majors still keen on US shale

17 Aug 2015, 4.31 pm GMT
Houston, 17 August (Argus) — ExxonMobil's purchase last week of US shale acreage despite weak crude prices reflects oil majors' sustained interest in the unconventional side of the business.
Most US independent oil and gas producers have raised their output guidance even while spending less on the back of a better-than-expected improvements in technology and the fall in costs of services. The deal by ExxonMobil possibly points to other cash-rich producers snapping up acreage on the cheap in a weak oil price environment to position themselves for a recovery.
ExxonMobil said earlier this month it acquired drilling rights for more than 48,000 acres in Texas' Permian basin through two agreements. One was an acquisition and a farm-in in an area adjoining the company's existing acreage in Martin and Midland counties. The company didn't disclose the price for the acreage or who it acquired it from.
"We expect to drive continued improvements in productivity and cost as we develop our substantial inventory of wells across the multiple stacked plays," says Randy Cleveland, president of ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy. "We are encouraged by the horizontal well productivity and cost reductions we have achieved to date."
ExxonMobil is carrying out measured US onshore drilling activity. The company's output in the Bakken, Permian basin and Woodford (Ardmore/Marietta) basin averaged about 240,000 b/d of oil equivalent (boe/d) in the second quarter, up by more than 20pc year-on-year. Its rig count is down by about 10 to 34 rigs in those three basins compared with the first quarter, but it has captured savings of about 30pc in drilling and completion costs from the peak in 2014.
The major has executed five agreements in the Midland basin in Texas since January 2014, providing it with operating rights over 135,000 net acres. XTO is currently operating 11 horizontal and four vertical rigs across its Permian basin leasehold of more than 1.5mn net acres, with output exceeding 115,000 b/d of oil equivalent (boe/d).
Even during boom times "when everybody was really picking up a lot of rigs, we took a measured pace and made sure that we were going at a pace that we can fully capture the benefits of the learnings that we were realizing," ExxonMobil's vice president of investor relations Jeff Woodbury said.
"Likewise in the down cycle, our rig counts have not come down as significantly as you see in the industry because we have been able to capture those learnings. The economics of these investments are still robust," he said.
Chevron recorded an 11,000 boe/d production growth from its shale and tight assets globally — but primarily in Permian — in the second quarter compared with January-March of this year. Unconventional resources are still in the minority of Chevron's holdings but have grown by about 15pc over the last five years.
BP, which is operating its Lower 48 assets as a separate business beginning this year, is implementing capital and operating efficiency improvements.
"Operating costs are trending lower, and in our Woodford and Haynesville assets we have halved the cost of bringing new wells on-stream," says BP chief executive Bob Dudley. "We have actually increased the number of rigs running from around two up to 10 now across the business units" since last year.
BP's output across the lower 48 is about 280,000 boe/d. "We continue with the desire for it to be a market visible, high return, onshore operator in the US".
Shell, which has reduced its North American shale footprint since 2013, said that there's a limit to the level of production improvement the industry will see while continually reducing rig count.
"This whole idea that... you can actually continuously bring down rigs and somehow miraculously production will keep going up, that I think is finally sort of coming to an end," says Shell chief executive Ben van Beurden.
Shell won't exit the US unconventional industry, however, despite the outlook.


News - Argus Media

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ah ah ah passavo casualmente di qua per vedere come il solito duo tentava di arrampicarsi con le unghie sugli specchi per sostenere il loro fracking ...poi leggo il primo commento di cui sopra dove si dice che pozzi a 2000 -2500 metri necessitano di tecnologie che i russi non hanno...e mi fermo per non buttare il pc fuori ..
Solo ricordo che il crapapelata ( Benito per capirci) negli anni 40 perforava in pianura padani a 3000 metri ( Fontevivo etc)
robb de matt!!!!

ed i russi nel nuovo millennio non sono capaci di fare simili pozzetti????

negli anni 70 i russi sono arrivati a 12,600 mt , mel 2008 a piu di 13,500 mt ma qui in associazione con altre ditte straniere. quindi il dinamico duo potrebbe dubitare sul record russo.. quello degli anni 70 in piena guerra fredda dovrebbe essere russo .