How much does a starting man make fracking?

Go to school. Get an engineering degree. Learn what fracing is. (That is how we have spelled it for 50 years in the oil industry. It is pronounced the same.) Get a job at a company that does hydraulic fracturing (that is the long version) and learn the business. read more

International (whether drilling or completions) can be up to $2,200-$2,400 per day in a dangerous country. That may sound like a lot, but they are independent contractors that have to pay all their own expenses (food, lodging, fuel, cell phone, etc), although they still do make boat loads. read more

On a square of clay and gravel about 40 miles north of downtown Denver, Joel Fox’s colleagues are starting a frack on an oil well. Fox — who runs fracking operations for Encana Corp., a $9 billion oil and gas company — points to the action we’ll be able to see from our safe distance. read more

Back in 2000, there were just 23,000 fracking wells pumping about 102,000 barrels of oil a day. Now there are 300,000 fracking wells, churning out 4.3 million barrels per day. Fracking"has allowed the United States to increase its oil production faster than at any time in its history," the EIA said in recent report. read more

Economic impact of fracking on US economy: Fracking accounted for 49% of domestic US gas production in 2010, which enabled a decline of around 37.5% in the natural gas imports by the US between 2007 and 2013. read more