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Politics : Peak Oil reality or Myth, of an out of Control System
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From: dvdw©7/7/2013 10:57:39 AM
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This Data point should have been placed when it appeared, got lost in some file....

Water For Fracking In The Bakken

So, how much water is being released from the Garrison Dam today? Dynamic link here.

The answer: 20,000 cubic feet/second.

A cubic foot of water: 7 gallons.

So, in one second: 140,000 gallons of water released from the Garrison Dam today
In one minute: 8 million gallons of water released from the Garrison Dam today
In one hour: 500 million gallons of water released from the Garrison Dam today

Less then 4 million gallons of water are used to frack a well, but let's keep it simple:
500 million gallons / 5 million gallons = 100 wells

If I did the arithmetic correctly, enough water is released from the Garrison Dam each hour to frack 100 wells.

2,000 wells will be fracked this year. Less than a day's worth of discharge from the Garrison Dam should be enough water to frack all the wells that will be fracked in the North Dakota Bakken this year.

I apologize ahead of time if my calculations are incorrect; I will correct them if necessary.

Posted by Bruce Oksol - oksol@yahoo.com at 6:13 PM
Labels: Fracking, FrackingWater


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ulvog May 25, 2013 at 8:01 PM
You conclusion is solid. I recalculated the numbers for you: outrunchange.com

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Bruce Oksol - oksol@yahoo.com May 25, 2013 at 9:08 PM
I appreciate that. I often make mistakes when dealing with, what often seems, simple arithmetic. Thank you.




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