During offshore fracking, a significant amount of fracking
fluid returns to the surface and is either discharged into the ocean or transported for onshore ground injection.
Not exact matches
One incident that is emblematic of the problems occurred on 8 March, a month before the accident, when BP discovered that drilling
fluid had leaked into rocks 5000 metres below the sea floor instead of
returning to the
surface via a pipe.
As soon as the samplers
returned to the
surface, they were rinsed in Milli - Q water, and the
fluid was withdrawn.