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    (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations...
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    Bureau of Mines publication wrote of hydraulic fracturing: "Many fields are in existence today because of these fracturing techniques for, without them, many...
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    ceramic materials, designed to keep an induced hydraulic fracture open, during or following a fracturing treatment, most commonly for unconventional reservoirs...
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    in New Brunswick, Canada, subject to an indefinite moratorium on hydraulic fracturing. As of December 31, 2023, the company had 19.660 trillion cubic feet...
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    experimental use of hydraulic fracturing in the world was in 1947, and the first commercially successful applications of hydraulic fracturing were in 1949 in...
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    formation. The volume of water used to hydraulically fracture wells varies according to the hydraulic fracturing technique. In the United States, the average...
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    fracturing fluids and formation fluids are able to escape during fracking. However, the possibility of groundwater contamination from the fracturing fluid...
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    in the distal facies of the formation's western extent. Massive hydraulic fracturing has been widely used in Alberta since the late 1970s.: 1044  The...
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  • needed] Hydraulic fracturing is a technique in which high-pressure fluid is injected into the low-permeable reservoir rocks in order to induce fractures to...
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    folding can induce tensile fractures parallel to the fold axis. Another, similar tensile fracture mechanism is hydraulic fracturing. In a natural environment...
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    formed to oppose field development, in particular the proposed use of hydraulic fracturing as a well stimulation technique. In response, to assuage the fears...
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  • Brunswick, Canada, which are subject to an indefinite moratorium on hydraulic fracturing due to public opposition and cannot be developed. The company was...
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    (Canada), and some of the states of the US. Up until the mid-2000s, hydraulic fracturing was generally limited to conventional oil and gas wells in the Cooper...
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    administration said it was considering lifting a state ban on the practice of hydraulic fracturing (also known as "fracking") to stimulate the economy in upstate New...
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    (also known as hydraulic fracturing, fracing, hydrofracturing, or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations...
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  • hydraulic fracturing gained working in the Barnett Shale (pioneered in the region by Mitchell Energy & Development) to attempt hydraulic fracturing in...
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    permanent bans on hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in New Jersey and vetoed measures that would ban the process and disposal of hydraulic fracturing waste in the...
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    Richard A. Muller (born January 6, 1944) is an American physicist and emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also...
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    formations. Since the 1990s a combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has made large volumes of shale gas more economical to produce, and...
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    energy executive who is the chief executive of Liberty Energy, a hydraulic fracturing company. He is the presumptive nominee for United States Secretary...
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    until oil and gas companies learned how to effectively use massive hydraulic fracturing in the formation. The use of horizontal drilling further improved...
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    , the Turtle Mountain Chippewa voters were unanimous in banning hydraulic fracturing (fracking) to exploit oil reserves; they were the first tribe to...
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    crystalline exposure. Hydraulic fracturing uses abundant amounts of sand in the process of fracturing as part of the hydraulic fluid. The fracturing fluid consists...
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    The institute advocates for hydraulic fracturing (aka "fracking"), a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by pressurized liquids, publishing...
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    Groundwater pollution (category Hydraulic engineering)
    wastewater treatment plants, leaking sewers, petrol filling stations, hydraulic fracturing (fracking) or from over application of fertilizers in agriculture...
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    2019 for natural gas wells. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracture treating or fracking, is the process of fracturing bedrock with pressurized liquids...
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  • Hydraulic fracturing is the propagation of fractures in a rock layer by pressurized fluid. Induced hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking, commonly known...
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    injected with hydraulic fracturing fluid to determine the injection profile and location of fractures created by hydraulic fracturing. Much smaller incidental...
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  • Formation in central Alberta using horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing. $2 billion was paid for leases during 2010 and 2011. Prices for...
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    Encana's hydraulic fracturing operations in the United States are portrayed in the 2010 documentary, Gasland, which alleges that hydraulic fracturing causes...
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