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Posted by Dave on Sat Jul 23 21:51:26 2016, in response to Re: Drill Baby Drill, posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Jul 23 12:10:12 2016. Not true. Government research on fracking became seriously under Gerald Ford, in the 1970's. Forget about fracking first being done in 1862. The birth of modern day hydraulic fracturing began in the 1940s. In 1947, Floyd Farris of Stanolind Oil and Gas began a study on the relationship between oil and gas production output, and the amount of pressurized treatment being used on each well. This study lead to the first experiment of hydraulic fracturing, which occurred at the Hugoton gas field, located in Grant county, Kansas in 1947. Despite the failure in the Hugoton gas field experiment, research continued. In 1949, Halliburton conducted two commercial experiments; one in Stephens county Oklahoma, and another in Archer County, Texas. These results were much more successful.After achieving experimental success in 1949, fracking quickly became commercialized. In the 1960s Pan American Petroleum began using this drilling technique in Stephens county Oklahoma. In the 1970s, this extraction method was being used in the Piceance Basin, the San Juan Basin, the Denver Basin, and the Green River Basin. That is what caught the attention of Ford and he promoted the development of shale oil resources as part of his overall energy plan, as a means of reducing foreign oil imports. That's when the DOE kicked it up a notch. |
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