Fracking

Wow, two updates in a day!!!
I found a website that kind of explains fracking. Look at the video that is on the site. All of the equipment that it shows in the diagram is here at our site. We are still not sure what it all does....
there are several water trailers where I think they mix the chemicals with water and several trailers where they load various grades of sand into. There are also a a large number of very large pumps that have huge diesel motors on them and are built on special trailers. I would guess that there are at least 7 of these trailers. When they all get rev'ed up they make a lot of noise and smoke.
http://www.hydraulicfracturing.com/Pages/information.aspx
Basically they run a "gun" with explosives down the well as far as it will go and set off charges, which fractures the rock or shale. Than they send down the sand/water/chemical slurry to fill up all of the fractures and than block off that area. Than they repeat the process a number of times until they have the whole well hole fractured.

After this the whole crew moves all of the equipment to another site and another crew comes in and does what I think is called coil piping. We do not know what this is, but think they remove the sand/water/chemical mixture and allow the oil to start flowing into the well.

Than another crew comes along and hard pipes the well head into the pipeline, or in some cases, they build storage tanks and separate the oil from the water and pump both into water and crude oil tankers for removal.

It looks like we will be following the fracking crew to the next site and hopefully will stay with them until we leave.

Hope that makes it about as clear as mud for you.
Speaking of mud, we have been covered in it here....every time a truck or crew come in we have to sign them in, and than out. On the site before this one we had almost 900 sign ins in about a week.!!
take care all of you dear friend
remember we love ya, and miss you
Jim and Linda