Injecting wastewater deep underground as a byproduct of
oil and gas extraction techniques that include fracking causes human - made earthquakes, the lead author of new research from Arizona State University said Thursday.
Not exact matches
Likewise, the
extraction of
oil and natural
gas using enhanced recovery
techniques,
and handling of injected
and produced water, raise state
and federal concerns for
oil,
gas,
and geothermal energy production.
Separate production models were developed for mining (coal
and unconventional
oil)
and field (
gas and conventional
oil) operations, which reflected the basic differences in
extraction and processing
techniques.