How do casings fail, EXPERT?  When a well is completed, the casing lines the entire bore, from the shoe to the surface.  In most of the bore, there is at least two layers of casing, cemented together.  Only in the pay zone is there a single layer of casing cemented to the bore.

But casings FAIL!  And every casing FAILS!  According to our EXPERT here.

You're wasting your time. He saw a movie. Movies are only made by experts in their respective fields.

I guess our casing failure expert has left the building.  He cannot win so he takes his ball and goes home.

I listened to a friends brother go on about how great fracking is for over an hour one night. Of course he was making his living off of it.
Most of the people that seem to be fist pumping about the postives of fracking and the lack of any negatives earn money from it.
How many times have we been told this or that is safe by the industries pimping their product or service, and the political hacks who
are in lock step with them because of campaign contributions and tax revenues.

I for one do not know if it safe or not in the short term or long term, but personally I would rather not have it in my area.
There were gas companies running around in my area hoping that the state would approve fracking.
I do recall reading about one company that was caught on more than one occassion taking water from the river without a permit when doing exploritory wells.
They knew the rules, so my concern was if they would do this what else are they capable of.

If we didn't have hydraulic fracturing, oil would still be over $100/bbl and gasoline over $3.50 a gallon.

You should visit where I vacation during the summer.

18% of the nations energy passes through the road by where we used to keep the houseboat.

Port Fourchon

It would not worry me Op, if the bedrock is right under your feet. Where I live, when fracking goes bad, sink hole forms and your house goes bye bye

I would like to add, that when they cement the well, the amount of cement they would pump down would undoubtedly go way past the depth of the well water. Therefore making a casing leak a non-issue.

Pretty much. casings can fail, but this isn't the 1940's anymore. Having all of my friends and family in the industry ranging from Drilliers to Pipeliners, I haven't heard anything about a casing failing that I can remember. Blow outs, sure. but the casing was still intact.

Pretty much, inland fracking has made a lot of money in peoples pockets, from the land owners, the workers and those who by petroleum derived products.

FWIW, fracking and directional drilling has been going on in the GOM for a while now.

Except to the Envirowackos...  

I wouldn't worry about it. I'd be more concerned if I owned the mineral rights.

I knew DD in the GoM but not hydraulic fracturing.  Makes sense.

 

Yeah, the enviro whackos are collectively losing their minds over it. I am pretty sure any water that goes down the well has to be stored in tanks and then brought on shore for disposal. The same way drilling mud is handled.

People are still up in arms about the BP spill and looking at any way to stop drilling in the Gulf. The bad news for the environmentalist is that the on going research from I think Ole Miss, shows that marine life is back flourishing on, near and around the well site. The beaches and marshes are clean. The problem is you have people that are waiting on settlements lying about how it is still bad out there. Which it isn't. Matter of fact my family spent pretty much every weekend of June-July On or around, Grand Isle and Fourchon, that includes both major estuaries. No oil, that I can see, more fish and wild life than ever. Oysters are back doing their thing.

If the environmental fanatics want to actually put their money where their mouth is, they would look in to the Idle iron policy. They would find out about how many artificial reefs are being destroyed. I digress

That idle iron policy IS bull.  Before that policy, idle rigs were excellent dive sites.  Everything from urchins to cowries and even corals grew on the iron.  This attracted fish.  Sure, it was scary to see barracuda swimming on the surface but we never were attacked.

Tell me about it. If you follow the NOAA and their fishery management process they don't even count those structures in the numbers. There is so much marine life by those platforms it's not even funny. On one hand they don't want you to over fish the American Red Snapper but on the other hand the federal government wants to destroy the majority of their habitat.

It's really paints a awful picture when you actually think that there is a possibility your son may not have the same opportunities to fish in the gulf the way you did as a kid.

I would look for a place devoid of buried energy.