how about a Oklahoma,AR,MO,KS,TX,+IA GTG thread?

[plcnut]

Well, it took an hour and a half to go 3.3 miles for supper.

I've decided that Missouri is a pretty grand place to live.

 

[Hedgerow]

Me too. I didn’t know natural gas was even an option

Most power will be natural gas moving forward as long as the current trend continues..

It’s just a matter of getting big supply lines from the oil fields to the power plants..

I’m sure Doug is more up to speed on this subject than I..

 

[moparnut88]

Most power will be natural gas moving forward as long as the current trend continues..

It’s just a matter of getting big supply lines from the oil fields to the power plants..

I’m sure Doug is more up to speed on this subject than I..

Most coal plants are capable of running on natural but lack the supply.

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[Semotony]

There you go! Only problem will be feeding it. I think it burns around 50gal/hr at full load. It is a CAT after all.

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It wood be less expensive without that road tax per gallon, so there's a little savings!

 

[Hedgerow]

Most coal plants are capable of running on natural but lack the supply.

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If I’m understanding shale gas properly, when they tap an oil well in TX or OK, they get a *s-word ton of natural gas out of it. They can only flare it off for so long, then they need to find a use for it before they can collect the light, sweet crude from those gold mines...
Aka... no place to go with the natural gas, no oil sales from the well.. so they’re motivated to move that gas!!!!

 

[JimBear]

When I worked in ND, flying into Williston & Minot at night; it was crazy how many flare stacks you could see burning. At the end of my 2nd year up there they started trying to capture what they were burning off (tax incentives). Some of those stacks would just flicker like a candle others sounded like a torch when burning, which was 24/7.

 

[moparnut88]

Just spotted this.

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[Hedgerow]

When I worked in ND, flying into Williston & Minot at night; it was crazy how many flare stacks you could see burning. At the end of my 2nd year up there they started trying to capture what they were burning off (tax incentives). Some of those stacks would just flicker like a candle others sounded like a torch when burning, which was 24/7.

From what I’m understanding now, they can only do that for so many days, then it’s “cap it till ya get a destination for it”..
So, no destination for your natural gas, no pumping the oil...

 

[Hedgerow]

That’s called “incentive “...

 

[JimBear]

I always thought it looked like a big waste but most oil guys said there wasn’t enough burning off to worry about. I guess that tune got changed. Lol. I was told by a Pioneer drilling guy that the largest natural gas well in the US was in Wyoming, I know they were drilling more natural gas wells than oil in Wyoming when I was up north.

 

[Fishnuts2]

They should keep on drilling for NG then! A fleet manager told me that when it got really cold here a few months ago his supply of CNG was cut off to avoid shorting the power plants and homes in the upper Midwest. He had a couple hundred trucks off the roads with no fuel. Son in law works at a coal burning plant and said they were running balls to the wall too.

 

[Cat 525]

Sounds like lots of wind headed this way! White stuff to the north!

 

[67L36Driver]

Morning midlanders.

Reassembly of the creamsicle 362 is underway. Piston crown clears by .018” sans gasket. [emoji106]

Now if I can just remember where all the bits go back. [emoji57]

 

[WKEND LUMBERJAK]

Sounds like lots of wind headed this way! White stuff to the north!

Hope you wrong.

 

[Workshop]

Morning everybody.

 

[JimBear]

Sounds like lots of wind headed this way! White stuff to the north!

They are calling for trace amounts of snow here but 12”-18” thru NC Neb thru SD & into MN. That should do wonders for the MO River. Getting east winds up to 40mph here now, calling for chance of severe T-storms tonight.

 

[plcnut]

They are calling for trace amounts of snow here but 12”-18” thru NC Neb thru SD & into MN. That should do wonders for the MO River. Getting east winds up to 40mph here now, calling for chance of severe T-storms tonight.

No likey.

 

[mdavlee]

From what I’m understanding now, they can only do that for so many days, then it’s “cap it till ya get a destination for it”..
So, no destination for your natural gas, no pumping the oil...

They’re building all kinds of NG plants everywhere. Killing nuclear power as they go.

 

[concretegrazer]

Nuclear just cost too much to build anymore.

 

[mdavlee]

Nuclear just cost too much to build anymore.

The sad truth. The engineering is what is killing these being built here. You have a tiny problem of moving a piece of pipe or something 3” to miss something else and it’s 9 months waiting on an engineer to approve a design change.