Low Producing Well and Hydrofrac


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Old 11-07-08, 07:43 PM
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Low Producing Well and Hydrofrac

We had previously tried on three occasions to drill a well, two of which were dry and the third had a half gal/min (insufficient). We have 36 acres and found out that a neighbor got a well adjacent to our one property line. We are planning on trying again along the property line with him. Some local well drillers advocate using a percussion or cable drilling rig over a rotary unit saying it produces more microfractures in the rock (we are in SW Ohio). Does anyone know if this is true or an old wives tale? Also, I had come across the technique of Hydrofrac to increase the output of a low producing well. They say it increases output in 95% of the wells but I wonder by how much on average? Does anyone have any experience/knowledge of Hydrofrac and also how much it costs to do? Thanks Tired-n-dusty
 
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Old 11-07-08, 09:06 PM
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Hydrofracture of wells is done all the time in the oil fields. This can be done to water wells to increase water production. Go to Mountain Hydrofracture - where they provide a tidy description of the process and state the following re: increase in yield in gallons per minute:

"Well yield increases, if successful, are generally modest, but may constitute a significant increase if the original well yield was very low. Ocasionally, large increases in well recovery rates are realized. Overall, the hydrofracturing industry reports a success rate in excess of 90% to 95%. A typical well yield rate after 'fracking is an increase of ½gpm to 5gpm for a well that originally had very low production."
 
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hydrofracking and hydrogeology

Hydrofracking generally increases yield by 2 to sometimes 10 times. So a 0.5 gpm (gallons per minute) well might yield 1 to 5 gpm after hydrofracking....or yield might not increase at all in about 1 well in 20. Underlying your property is Ordovician age shale, with (as you know) very poor groundwater potential.

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