Hydraulics

There is a limited public participation in decision-making processes to discontinue hydraulic fracking in the neighborhood. There is also differential law enforcement, as environmental agencies take longer to respond to the complaints the people are having with their water in the outskirts of America than they were if it were happening in…

The Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality must be followed in all of the provinces where hydraulic fracturing takes place and the results shared with the property owners (Gagnon, 2016). Provinces In Canada, a handful of provinces have banned fracking; Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland & Labrador, for the main concerns of water contamination, air quality, and the terms of clarification and operation licenses (Gagnon, 2016). While British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan allow…

the quality there were three persons but the rate of rejected products were high. The products were tested and pass through but the rate of rejection were in increasing order. Case study: In Millat Equipment Limited (MEL) the axial housing line, hydraulic pump assembly and Cylinder block line was able to produce 10 products per hour. The shift of each production line is 8 hours so in theory the line should make 80 products in that time. In the axial housing production line one machine produce…

There are many consequences for polluting the environment Homer Simpson from the Simpsons movie is well aware of these consequences. To start things off I will be discussing a major problem that is occurring all over the United States today. Hydraulic fracturing also known as fracking is a crisis that is occurring all over the United States today, even in Colorado. Fracking is when industries drill about a million to a ton of gallons of water, sand, and chemicals under high pressure into a well…

What the frack is fracking and why it should be replaced with alternative energy Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, is the extraction of natural gas from deep underground shale using vertical (“conventional fracking”) and horizontal (“unconventional”) drilling. According to C. Mooney (The Truth About Fracking) conventional fracking has been used since the late 1940’s; it involves drilling a vertical well into a layer of shell and pumping chemically treated water and sand at extremely high…

We recently viewed a documentary in class titled Gasland by Josh Fox. Josh Fox is an environmentalist opposed to hydraulic fracturing in the United States. He has made many other movies/documentaries such as Memorial Day(2008), Gasland Part II(2013) and most recently How to Let Go of the World(2016). I believe that Fox wanted to expose the negative impact that hydraulic fracking has not only on the environment but also on the people. He drove across the country and interviewed different…

Without the hydraulic fracturing process, the production sector and the economies wouldn’t have seen this growth. Different countries such as Canada (NEB, 2009; CCA, 2014), The United Kingdom, The United States and Australia have also come forth to address and develop their hydraulic fracturing techniques over the years (cook et al, 2013). The Reduced Emissions completions (REC) technique is used…

Barnett Shale successes prompted extensive commercial expansion of shale oil and gas activity (Curtis 2002; Browning et al. 2013). As the testing ground for new technologies, Barnett Shale has an extensive experimental history of various drilling and hydraulic fracture methodologies that have been successfully transferred to other shale plays (Grieser et al. 2006; Samuelson et al. 2012; Browning et al. 2013). Following success of Barnett Shale, the Eagle Ford Shale emerged as an unconventional…

form the end of the horizontal hole. Plugs are then placed upon the completion of each stage to prevent communication between the stages. A Problem with Economic Consequences A major issue that is encountered during the fracturing process is the hydraulic communication among the stages. This is specifically a common problem in carbonate rocks as well as formations with a relatively low permeability in the direction of the fractures. In order to maximize the production and benefit of the…

The Hydraulic control system has encountered problems in the past and one of which is the Delta Airlines Boeing 757-200 flight B752 from Los Angeles, CA to Detroit, MI. The crew on board requested to level off at 5000 feet reporting a hydraulic malfunction and the aircraft returned to Los Angeles where the tower reported that they could see both main gears but weren’t sure…