Link here to KX News (unfortunately this link won't be here long).
Kathleen Neset is the president of Neset Consulting Service, based in the heart of oil country: Tioga. She is the keynote speaker at the Bismarck/Mandan Development Association's annual meeting.
"We provide crews to the geo-steering operation while the wells are drilling, we help the oil companies target and stay in the Bakken." says Neset.
A formation that she considers one of the best situations in the nation.
"I think it's important we North Dakotans understand just how special the Bakken is, our surface aquifers are in the top 2000 feet of the drilling process and they're drilled with fresh water, then we seal them off with casing and cement, totally seal that off from fracking that will happen down in the Bakken formation at 10,000 feet of true vertical depth, that puts about 8000 feet of overburdened rock between fracking and aquifers." says Neset.That's a lot of cement.
She cares as a geologist, and a farmer.
"I'm a farmer, I farm northeast of Tioga, I rely on rural water on a well, so I have to take care of our surface aquifers just as much as the next North Dakotan does." says Neset.
Very impressive person. I read a article about her some time ago. Born and raised in Connecticut, educated with a degree in geology and moved to North Dakota to work. Meet and married a Tioga area farmer and thinks North Dakota is the best place there is to live.
ReplyDeleteNorth Dakota is very fortunate to have a person of her quality and ability committed to the state.
Several months ago I happened to be in Tioga and drove by a non-descript house with several Neset trucks parked on the street, driveway, etc., and I assumed it was her home. Don't know. But if it was, the most unassuming and most wonderful home I have seen for someone with her credentials.
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