The group, led by Carlos Fernandez, Ph.D., at PNNL, has developed
a new fracturing fluid that uses an environmentally friendly polymer to create tiny cracks in bedrock deep below the surface of the earth.
Not exact matches
We are working with Rice University to develop a
new tracer technology for hydraulic
fracturing fluids.
According to the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research, during the first half of 2013 in the Marcellus shale play, 90 percent of the more than 14 million barrels of produced
fluids from
fracturing was reused.12 That represents a significant savings in the amount of
new water needed for hydraulic
fracturing elsewhere, and illustrates the industry's focus on environmental issues and efforts to reduce the impacts of energy development on resources and communities.
Three company spokesmen and a regulatory official said in separate interviews with ProPublica that as much as 85 percent of the
fluids used during hydraulic
fracturing is being left underground after wells are drilled in the Marcellus Shale, the massive gas deposit that stretches from
New York to Tennessee.
The method combines a
new form of horizontal drilling with hydraulic
fracturing — more commonly known as fracking GThe process blasts open fissures in underground shale - rock formations by injecting a high pressure combination of
fluids, chemicals and proppants causing the fossil fuel to flow to the production well.