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Super Fracking: Extreme energy production calls for extreme fracking

January 21, 2012 By TXsharon

Frack it harder!

Frack it deeper!

Frack it faster!

Frack it cheaper!

Totally frack it up!

Baker Hughes has set its sights on creating “super cracks,” a method of blasting deeper into dense rock to create wider channels. The aim of the technology, branded as DirectConnect, is to better concentrate the pressure of fracking fluids to reach oil or gas farther from the well bore, which existing methods fail to do as effectively.

Like Fracking? You’ll Love ‘Super Fracking’
Oil service companies roll out new technologies to break up more earth more cheaply
By David Wethe

This is my favorite quote from an industry shill in forever. Read it once, then turn it upside down and read it again.

…the wider or deeper fractures that result from super fracking won’t create bigger environmental problems. “No change in fracturing technology would change that,” he says.
David B. Burnett, director of technology at Texas A&M University’s Energy Institute

How do you think we should take that claim, Dear Readers?

  1. There is no technology that can make a bigger fracking mess than they are already making.
  2. I am such a shill that even if they go back to fracking with nuclear bombs, I won’t acknowledge any environmental problems.
  3. You tell me. What does that mean?

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Comments

  1. Tammi says

    January 21, 2012 at 10:06 am

    I thought getting fracked was suppose to feel good. Maybe I need a cigarette after reading this post!

  2. Anonomous says

    January 21, 2012 at 1:29 pm

    If the Shill is in anyway connected with Texas A&M, they are nothing but a taxpayer funded mouthpiece of O&G.

  3. Flo B says

    January 22, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    I don’t know. But when frackers are fracking I don’t want them getting “high” on it in my backyard or in my pasture…if you know what I mean.

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