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Permalink Reply by 0i7okn54zwbdo on November 15, 2013 at 6:25pm

This is a technology that's been examined in heavy oil plays with limited success.  Maybe one day someone cracks the code.

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Permalink Reply by Billy Park Whyde on November 15, 2013 at 6:53pm

Give the well a good old fashioned Obama Care enema that should get the earths bowls producing. 

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Permalink Reply by Jason Grecco on November 16, 2013 at 9:46am

Marcus:

Someday I envision fracking with Ethane in low resorvoir pressure conditions with highly viscious crude (Ashtabula/Trumbull).  The anti-frack folks will really freek if it happens, but the ethane would be recovered along with the crude.   

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Permalink Reply by 0i7okn54zwbdo on November 16, 2013 at 1:19pm

Jason, 

Anti-frac people are afraid of their own shadows and the detriment that such shadows have on Mother Earth.  Give them any suggestion and they'll freak.

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Permalink Reply by Jason Grecco on November 16, 2013 at 4:27pm

Marcus,

I always appreciate your tac down to the proper "frac" spelling.  I forsee a day of ethane gluttony that may serve a purpose beyond our current vision.

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Permalink Reply by David Perotto on November 16, 2013 at 12:36am

Billy,
In a related thread, from the Eagle Ford forum:
http://eaglefordforum.com/forum/topics/hunt-ziaontz-1

Wilson county Texas is also in a shallower Eagle Ford area, in the oil window there.

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Permalink Reply by 015334grltd9m on November 16, 2013 at 12:59am

If there is a will there is a way.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on November 16, 2013 at 1:06am

Bugs.
Put them to work then.
Give them a try.
Any repercussions / negative ' side effects ' noted ?

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on November 16, 2013 at 11:17am

Ethane. Good idea.
Probably been done for quite awhile already .
Marketing probably keeping this one in check.
My guesses.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on November 16, 2013 at 10:41pm

Perhaps the 'Ethane Cracker' plants are a big part of the key to to the oil window ?

Might it be that more ( ethane ) availability ( from 'wet gas' processing ) in the near geography ( once the 'Cracker' plants come on line ) initiate greater oil window development ?

Seems to follow / make a certain amount of sense to me.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph-Ohio on November 17, 2013 at 4:19am

I think :

If there's a well there's a way.

I inquire :

Is the solution dilution ?

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Permalink Reply by Trapper on November 17, 2013 at 6:37am

Wouldn't the ethane remain with the thick oil to keep it fluid enough to transport and handle? At what point and how far from here would it be separated back out for cracking.....?

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