Sentences with phrase «rock under high pressure»

The articles are results of pioneer research in the use of CO2 marked by radioactive C11 for visualizing the CO2 flow in porous rock under high pressure.

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Hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» involves injecting liquids, sand and chemicals under high pressure to break apart tight rock formations underground to allow more oil and gas to escape into the well.

«He doesn't want to leave any question about the independence of the Governor of the Bank of Canada, but we have a situation under the Conservative government that has allowed record household debt... and the bank is really caught between a rock and a hard place, because these high debt levels create pressure for higher interest rates, but inflation is very low.

With fracking, millions of gallons of water, dangerous chemicals, and sand are injected under high pressure deep into the earth, fracturing hard rock to release oil and gas.

Under high pressures, water can react with surrounding rock to make diamonds and oil.

In 1990, Penfield obtained samples of rock formed under high pressure that suggested it was an impact feature.

After the researchers analyzed the inclusions — each just 15 to 40 microns wide, or one - sixth to two - fifths of the diameter of a human hair — they found the inclusions contained the entire range of minerals one would expect of a volcanic rock called basalt that originally formed at the planet's surface and then crystallized under extreme high pressures and temperatures.

Fluids are pumped into a wellbore under high pressure to fracture rocks, and materials called «proppants,» like sand or ceramic, hold the fractures open.

But the high - density rocks below the NMSZ redirect that pressure downward, putting faults in the buried rift zone under significantly more pressure than the surrounding terrain.

The water is injected under high pressure into a wellbore to fracture deep rock formations in order to release the flow of natural gas and petroleum in a process call hydraulic fracturing.

installing an EGS plant typically involves drilling a 10 - to 12 - inch - wide, three - to four - kilometer - deep hole, expanding existing fractures in the rock at the bottom of the hole by pumping down water under high pressure, and drilling a second hole into those fractures.