Lets talk fracking!

Its a topic i have extensive knowledge on.

1) to lift oil requires pressure within a reservoir.
2) to have oil to lift the reservoir requires a mobility pathway to the well.

An oil (or gas) well is drilled at approximately
1,100 - 16,500 ft depending on application.

The average ground water well in the U.S. is drilled to somewhere between 100 and 800 ft depending upon the basin.

Speaking in hypotheticals, let us pretend I request a frack on a 2,000 ft (3/8 of a mile) deep vertical well.

Let us pretend that I put enough sand, under enough pressure, to fracture not only the matrix i am producing but its cap rock, and 1,200 feet of the ground above it.

Let us pretend this causes a direct pathway for gas under pressure to eventually reach someone’s drinking water.

Let us pretend that my fracture is solely responsible for this pathway. (No one abandoned an old, shitty well nearby and did a bad cement job).

Let us (not) pretend that someone makes a documentary about fracking, in which, a drunken, schizo PA citizen lights his tap water on fire.

Let us (not) pretend that this becomes a national issue for the next 18 years.

Now - if I fractured that well. And caused or (not) cause all of that would i remain viable as an engineer or producer?