![]() ![]() Not surprisingly for a company that touts itself as having a safety culture, the company invested in technology to make driving safer. When SWA is employed, operations cease until the risk is addressed and both the employee and management agree that it is safe to resume work.” “Our SWA policy empowers our employees to stop work whenever they identify unsafe work conditions. One particularly praiseworthy practice is that the company empowers operational personnel with stop work authority (“SWA”). Select though, makes safety a priority, The Select annual report explains the various safety programs the company employs. Fontaine also points out that while there are many fine logistics firms in the industry, there are small fly by night operations that do not seem to care as much about safety. ![]() More accidents occur at night when visibility is low, and because the human body was just not designed to operate efficiently at night.īecause Horizontal drilling often occurs in remote locations that are not conducive to family life, many of the drivers are young, single men this demographic does not have the same safety profile as older drivers. Water deliveries to the wells are made 24 hours a day, seven days a week. At some point, these trucks have turn off the main road and onto gravel and dirt roads that lead to the pads, adding rough terrain to the trip. These 2 lane roads are difficult to maintain because of the weight of the trucks and the additional traffic, though the industry does help to support local governments in this area. The water trucks start on open 2 lane roads, but the boom in activity around horizontal drilling basins often leads to extreme congestion and traffic to get from origin to destination and back. ![]() Transporting these volumes of water is more dangerous than just driving a semi-truck on an Interstate. Increasingly, the transportation of water has shifted away from tank truck operations to pipelines for disposal or reuse.” But Michael Fontaine – the vice president of procurement, fleet, and facilities at Select – explained that toting water by truck is still big business for Select. This flowback and produced water must be captured, contained, and then either treated with chemicals and recycled for reuse in subsequent fracturing jobs or disposed of in an environmentally sound manner.” The flowback volumes can also lead to the need for tanker truck moves. The annual report goes on to explain, “up to fifty percent of the water pumped into the well during the hydraulic fracturing process returns as “flowback” during the first several weeks following the well completion process, and a large percentage of the remainder, plus pre-existing water in the formation, is recovered as produced water over the life of the well. This “can require in excess of 5 million barrels to complete all of the wells on the pad.” To supply 5 million barrels of water to a pad requires more than 38,000 tank truck load shipments if temporary above ground pipelines are not feasible. Oil and gas companies increasingly place multiple wells on a pad. According to Select’s annual report, in excess of 500,000 barrels of water for the lifecycle of a single well may be necessary. The amount of water used during the lifecycle of a well has grown significantly over the years. The hydraulic fracturing process involves the injection of large volumes of water and a proppant-typically sand-combined with chemicals, under high pressure, thousands of feet below ground to fracture the surrounding rock and allow oil or gas to flow upwards into the well. Hydraulic fracturing is frequently used in conjunction with horizontal drilling. Water is essential to the process of hydraulic fracturing. This involves more dangerous driving conditions than other trucking jobs, which led the company to invest in a fleet safety solution. These trucks make deliveries to, and pick-ups at, oil and gas wells engaged in hydraulic fracturing in every US oil and gas basin. Select Energy Services, a leading provider of water and chemical solutions, has a fleet of roughly 2,000 trucks nationwide. Select Energy Services’ Fluids Handling Group Operates as Tidal Logistics ![]()
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