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    diameter of the proppant. As proppants are deposited in a fracture, proppants can resist further fluid flow or the flow of other proppants, inhibiting further...
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    which would be released by the fracking work, potentially jeopardising Australia's Paris emissions reduction target. Fracking has been physically blockaded...
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    involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents)...
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    fracturing fluid (0.000005 per cent) Proppants may comprise up to 10 per cent of hydraulic fracturing fluid volume. The proppants used at Preese Hall 1 were silica...
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    proven gas reserves to pass a law banning fracking. On May 8, 2019, Washington became the fourth state to ban fracking when Governor Jay Inslee signed SB 5145...
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    Field in Kazakhstan. In 2001, the company introduced the largest fracking proppants vessel for deepwater work in the Gulf of Mexico. It was named after...
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    Countries using or considering to use fracking have implemented different regulations, including developing federal and regional legislation, and local...
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  • fracturing proppants Uses of radioactivity in oil and gas wells Soraghan, Mike (15 November 2010). "Halliburton Announces Ecofriendly Fracking Fluid, More...
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    from fracking. Research has determined that fracking negatively affects human health and drives climate change. Fracking fluids include proppants and other...
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    Protection Agency (EPA) expressed concern that fracking might contaminate groundwater. With the growth of fracking in the United States in the following years...
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    the proppant and flush it deep into the fractures. After that process, the gel has to break down so that it is possible to recover the fracking fluid...
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    Fracking in Ukraine has been used since the 1950s. The first fracking operation in Ukraine was conducted in 1954 for the underground coal gasification...
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    in Hydraulic Fracturing Distributions and Treatment Fluids, Additives, Proppants, and Water Volumes Applied to Wells Drilled in the United States through...
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    formations in British Columbia would not be possible without fracking technology. Fracking has revitalized legacy oilfields. "Hydraulic fracturing of horizontal...
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    There are many exemptions for fracking under United States federal law: the oil and gas industries are exempt or excluded from certain sections of a number...
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    involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" (primarily water, containing sand or other proppants suspended with the aid of thickening agents)...
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  • the three demands of Alphabet: baseload, green sourced and nearby. Shale fracking methodologies were proposed for geothermal use in 2013 by Mark Mclure,...
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    have called for a moratorium on fracking but this has been rejected by the government. The environmental effects of fracking are regulated by the Resource...
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    Africa Lifts Fracking Moratorium; Citizens Alarmed By U.S. Fracking Examples” Alternet. N.p., 24 Sept. 2012. Web. 14 Mar. 2014. Economist “Fracking the Karoo”...
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    Jurassic Los Molles Formation holds. As of 2017, there were almost 500 fracking wells, one of the most fracked sites outside North America. In July 2013...
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  • well, a key innovation largely responsible for the subsequent surge in fracking across the Bakken and other the U.S. shale oil plays. As a result, the...
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    chemicals are used, reducing the possibility of environmental damage. Instead proppants such as sand or ceramic particles are used to keep the cracks open and...
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    ISBN 9780444873521. McDermott-Levy, Ruth; Kaktins, Nina; Sattler, Barbara (June 2013). "Fracking, the Environment, and Health". American Journal of Nursing. 113 (6): 45–51...
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    radionuclides. List of additives for hydraulic fracturing Hydraulic fracturing proppants Reis, John C. (1976). Environmental Control in Petroleum Engineering....
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  • Environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing in the United States Proppants and fracking fluids O'Hehir, Andrew (21 June 2000). "The FRAC Act under attack...
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    maintained, high permeability is not required, nor are hydraulic fracturing proppants required to maintain the fractures in an open state. Hydro-shearing is...
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    telecommunications Micro-filtration devices for medical applications Proppants for fracking Pump plungers and seal rings Valve plates for washerless faucets...
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    communicate through the formation for distances of up to mile. During a fracking operation thousands of gallons of fluid and sand are pumped down one well...
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    Formation are mined extensively as a proppant for hydraulic fracturing. The sand is commonly added to fracking fluids for the purpose of keeping induced...
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