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Ill. high-volume ‘fracking’ under way
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. drills a series of wells on a pad on a Weld County farm near Mead, Colo. in the northeastern part of the state. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)CHICAGO — State records indicate that high-volume oil drilling already has begun in Illinois, where lawmakers and others are scrambling to pass a bill to establish regulations for a practice that has generated intense national debate as energy companies push into new territory.
Carmi, Ill.-based Campbell Energy LLC submitted a well-completion report last year to the Department of Natural Resources voluntarily disclosing that it used 640,000 gallons of water during hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” of a well in White County. A regulatory bill awaiting a vote by state lawmakers — but not yet written at the time the well was drilled — defines “high-volume” as the use of 300,000 gallons or more of fluid during all stages of fracking.
The report was obtained by the Natural Resources Defense Council, which shared it with The Associated Press. Phone calls to the company on Tuesday seeking comment were not immediately returned.
DNR Director Marc Miller acknowledged that the well would qualify as high-volume under the proposed legislation, but said that his agency would not have checked the volume in the report when it was filed last June because there was nothing on the books to define high-volume fracking. What’s more, companies currently are not required to tell the DNR what method they use to extract oil and gas when they apply for a permit or when the well is finished, but Campbell included that information anyway.
And though the DNR does not know of any other wells that would meet the proposed definition of high-volume, there’s no way to know for sure if there are more.
“This (illustrates) the crux of why we need to have regulations as proposed for hydraulic fracturing,” Miller told the AP. “We need to have the regulatory tools before they start drilling to understand what” they are doing.
Fracking uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to crack rock formations deep underground and release oil and natural gas.
Proponents say it’s safe and could bring tens of thousands of jobs to southern Illinois. But others fear it could pollute and deplete water resources, and favor a proposed two-year moratorium that has gotten little traction in the Legislature.
Industry has said drillers are holding off on high-volume fracking in Illinois until they get regulatory certainty, but there technically is nothing to stop them.
And it’s unclear how long they would be willing to wait, said Ann Alexander, a senior attorney with the NRDC’s Midwest program who helped negotiate Illinois’ proposed regulations. If lawmakers fail to pass a bill this spring, “I would venture a bet that (industry’s) concern would go from regulatory uncertainty to increasing certainty that Illinois is not getting its act together.”
Illinois’ proposed regulations, written with the help of industry and environmental groups, would be the strictest in the country and include requirements that companies disclose chemicals they use and test groundwater before and after fracking. It also would hold industry liable for contamination. The legislation represented an unusual level of cooperation over how to proceed with a practice that has been halted elsewhere by emotional protests.
The bill passed a key House committee but has not yet been called for a vote in the full House. It would then need passage in the Senate and the signature of Gov. Pat Quinn, who has been a strong supporter.
Environmentalists who helped write the regulations said they preferred a moratorium, but it was clear that lawmakers wanted to pass a regulatory bill instead, so they worked to get the strongest regulations possible. But support is not unanimous: Other environmental groups and southern Illinois property owners have mounted a vigorous campaign to defeat them.
Brad Richards, vice president of the Illinois Oil and Gas Association, said he wasn’t surprised to learn of the Campbell well but stressed that the company did nothing wrong. And although the volume of fluid it used was a lot compared with what has traditionally been used in Illinois — the typical “frack” has been 100,000 gallons or less — it pales in comparison to states like North Dakota and Pennsylvania, where it’s not unusual for drillers to use 2 million to 8 million gallons of fluid in a well, he said.
Companies are eyeing the New Albany shale formation in Illinois, which lies 5,000 feet or deeper below the surface. Richards said they likely will use far more fluid than Campbell Energy did in the White County well, where it was fracking in a shallower formation. But he doubts companies will be willing to spend a lot of money in Illinois without regulations.
“We should all be able to agree: Go ahead and let’s get the bill passed,” he said.
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Posting ID: 3615672991Posted: 2013-02-13, 4:03PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-13, 4:03PM PSTemail to a friendSorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.
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Posting ID: 3615727622Posted: 2013-02-13, 4:29PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-13, 4:29PM PSTemail to a friendRig Operator - Key Energy Services - Field Operations - Taft, CA
We are currently seeking a Rig Operator for our Rig Services location in Taft, CA
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Ensuring all crew members are at the rig and prepared to work at scheduled time
Operating the rig and equipment as requested by the company contracting the rig
Working closely with customers to resolve concerns and complaints
Maintaining productivity standards for all rig functions
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Complying with all safety procedures and ensuring a safe working environment
Complying with all applicable government regulations
Ensuring efficient maintenance of assigned rig and equipment
Establishing and maintaining a positive work environment for rig crew
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
High school diploma, GED or equivalent
Valid commercial driver’s license with clean driving record
Ability to effectively communicate, both oral and written
Basic problem solving and organizational skills
Basic oilfield well servicing experience
Ability to bend, stoop and lift objects of up to 75 pounds for extended periods of time
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Customer Service Representative (Full-Time) (San Gabriel Valley)
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Varco to Honghua vying for $9 billion of Russia oil rigs
Chevron's Genesis platform is shown in the Gulf of Mexico. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)Russia’s thirst for modern rigs able to drill in shale oil deposits heralds a $9 billion bonanza for manufacturers including National Oilwell Varco Inc. of the U.S. and China’s Honghua Group.
More than 57 percent of the nation’s 1,835-strong rig fleet is over 20 years old, according to VTB Capital research. Built to Soviet designs, many won’t be powerful or advanced enough for producers such as OAO Rosneft and OAO Gazprom Neft when they begin exploring Siberia’s shale rock, said Antony Crawford, Russia head for National Oilwell. The largest U.S. oil equipment supplier competes with Honghua and OAO OMZ for orders in Russia, the world’s largest energy producer.
“Russia’s rig fleet is too old, too light and it lacks agility,” said Olga Danilenko, an oilfield services analyst at Russian investment bank VTB Capital. Paying to move an old rig in a remote region is a big risk considering the likelihood of a breakdown and expensive logistics in providing parts, she said.
Rosneft and partner Exxon Mobil Corp. started exploring the Bazhenov shale this year, a Siberian formation as big as France that state geologists estimate contains enough oil to more than double Russia’s reserves. President Vladimir Putin wants it developed to help maintain production above 10 million barrels a day. Compared with conventional oil, shale needs more rigs.
The machines also must be more powerful, driving unit costs to the middle of a $10 million-$60 million price range.
“New drilling rigs must be built,” said Crawford, whose Houston-based company plans a factory east of Moscow. “This issue represents a clear and present danger to Russia’s ability to maintain output during the next three to five years.”
New Rigs
Deliveries of new rigs will reach a five-year high of 105 units this year, according to VTB data. Still, older rigs are being retired at a rate of more than 400 a year, threatening a squeeze on capacity as drilling ramps up.
National Oilwell, which had $20 billion in revenue last year, may sell five rigs to Russia-focused companies this year, VTB said. It will compete with Russia’s OAO OMZ, owner of the Uralmash plant, a Soviet tank factory in World War II that became one of the world’s biggest rig builders during the oil boom of the 1970s. While production collapsed after the end of communism, it remains an important supplier.
Honghua Group, China’s largest exporter of drilling rigs, sees a need for more of its gear in Russia, Zhang Mi, chairman and president, said earlier this month in an interview. The company’s second-largest sales region is Russia, he said.
Innovative Equipment
“Half the drilling rigs there are outdated,” Mi said through a translator at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. “They see a great need for new innovative equipment.”
The company has started a joint venture in Russia to meet demand, he said.
“Part of the production equipment is coming from China and part from Russia,” he said. “Together we are able to meet the demand in Russia.”
Last year Russia’s monthly count of rigs in operation ranged from a low of 717 rigs in February to a high of 978 rigs in June, according to data on REnergyCo’s website.
A lack of rig capacity hasn’t yet dented Russian output, which hovered near a post-Soviet record at 10.47 million barrels a day in March, and it may be early to talk about a drilling rig shortage, said Ildar Davletshin, an oil and gas analyst at Renaissance Capital.
Tighter Balance
“The talk about shortage has been ongoing for many years, but so far it has not materialized,” he said. “There is tighter balance for high-spec rigs that will be potentially in higher demand” as shale fields are developed.
Chinese, U.S. and German manufacturers seem capable of delivering required quantities of rigs, he said.
Rosneft and Gazprom Neft have paired with Royal Dutch Shell Plc, seeking to follow strategies used in the U.S., where blasting oil from rock in places like the Bakken shale in North Dakota reversed decades of production declines.
Because oil can be harder to extract from shale, rigs often need to turn a drill bit 90 degrees and continue penetrating horizontally. This is combined with a process called fracturing where water, sand and chemicals are pumped into a well to smash rock and increase oil flows.
Stumbling Block
A lack of modern rigs remains a key stumbling block to developing Bazhenov, Bernstein analysts including Oswald Clint wrote in a note yesterday. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, at horizontal wells in Russia breaks even at $90 a barrel without tax breaks, they estimated. Russia’s Urals export blend is trading at about $102 a barrel.
Rosneft and Gazprom Neft didn’t respond to requests for comment on Russia’s oil rig fleet.
In the U.S., 250 rigs are need to produce about 700,000 barrels a day at the Bakken shale, said Richard Anderson, chief financial officer of Eurasia Drilling Co., Russia’s largest rig operator. That gives an indication of how many rigs could be needed to to exploit the Bazhenov, he said.
Supplying that number of rigs at an average of $35 million would cost $8.8 billion.
“These rigs are not currently in the Russian drilling fleet, so they would need to be added,” Anderson said.
Rosneft, OAO Lukoil and Gazprom Neft are already snapping up services for horizontal drilling and fracturing for more profitable wells before producing a single commercial barrel from the Bazhenov. Rosneft will drill and fracture 50 horizontal this year compared to three last year. TNK-BP, newly purchased by Rosneft, will use the technique in almost half the wells it drills this year, a sixfold increase in just two years. Gazprom Neft will double wells using this technique.
Drilling Power
Another concern is whether Russia has enough drilling power, according to Leonid Mirzoyan, chief corporate financial officer at C.A.T. Oil AG, Russia’s largest provider of fracturing services. The U.S. has built up about 25 million horsepower for hydraulic fracturing, mostly over the past five to seven years, while Russian has at best 850,000 horsepower, he said.
Production of so-called tight oil in Russia, including production from the Bazhenov and Priobskoye shales, could total around 200,000 barrels a day in 2018, according to the International Energy Agency, or IEA, mid-term oil outlook. That will create a steady demand for larger rigs.
“The number of drilling rigs in Russia that could drill a 7,000-meter vertical well bore and then shoot off and continue drilling horizontally for another 3 or 4 kilometers in extreme winter weather conditions is quite small,” National Oil’s Russia chief Crawford said in an interview. “I could probably count them on one hand.”
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Posting ID: 3615663414Posted: 2013-02-13, 3:58PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-13, 3:58PM PSTemail to a friendSorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.
Eagle Ford oil output rises 77% to more than 500,000 barrels per day
Floorhands J.B. Espinoza, left, and Miguel Ortiz remove pipe at a drilling site in Atascosa County near Moore, Texas, Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Espinoza was on his first week on the rig. (Jerry Lara/San Antonio Express-News)Oil production in Texas’s Eagle Ford shale formation rose more Than 77 percent in March from a year earlier, topping 500,000 barrels a day and posting a record.
The nine geographic fields that make up the majority of Eagle Ford yielded 529,874 barrels of crude a day, according to preliminary data released by the Texas Railroad Commission, which oversees oil and gas drilling in the state. The fields produced 298,266 barrels daily in March 2012.
February output was revised to 511,434 barrels a day from the preliminary report of 471,258, the commission said. Production totals typically increase in subsequent months as the state receives revised, corrected or late reports.
Growing production out of Eagle Ford is helping fuel a renaissance in Texas crude. The state produced 2.3 million barrels a day in February, the highest monthly level since April 1986, according to the Energy Information Administration, the statistical arm of the Energy Department. The EIA hasn’t released March production data for the state.
EOG Resources Inc. (EOG) is the largest leaseholder in the Eagle Ford play, with 639,000 net acres. Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) is next with 485,000, followed by Apache Corp. and BP Plc, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Plains Marketing LP’s posted price for Eagle Ford light oil today was $90.75 a barrel, compared with the most recent settlement prices of $94.15 for West Texas Intermediate and $102.62 for Brent.
Output of condensates, or natural gas liquids, was 89,345 barrels a day in March, down from 123,871 a year earlier, as drillers moved away from less profitable gas. Production of natural gas was 1.89 billion cubic feet a day, compared with 2.03 billion the year earlier.
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Posting ID: 3615716287Posted: 2013-02-13, 4:23PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-13, 4:23PM PSTemail to a friend
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