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Motivations for Women’s Activism in Hydraulic Fracking [PDF]
, 2019 Research Question: What motivates females to become anti-fracking activists? Hydraulic fracturing is a way of obtaining natural gas and oil from deep within the earth by injecting high powered water and chemicals into shale rock to fracture it, and ...
Godfrey, Taya
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Transient Temperature Impact on Deep Reservoir Fracturing
Geofluids, 2021 Hydraulic fracturing enables the commercial development of unconventional resources in shales and tight formations. The conductivity and complexity of created fractures are critically dependent on the rheology of fracking fluid and the mechanics ...
Yu Jiang +3 more
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Hydraulic fracturing considerations: Insights from analogue models, and its viability in Colombia
Earth Sciences Research Journal, 2019 Fracking is being considered around the world as a potential method in the hydrocarbons extraction given the increase of production in USA and Canada during the last years with its implementation.
Dilan Arturo Martínez-Sánchez +1 more
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Assessing Hydraulic Fracking Issues in the US South East and Western Region
Energy and Power, 2021 In the last several years, the choice of hydrological fracking as an alternative method of nonrenewable energy production in the US oil sector continues to gain currency across regions especially the Southeast and the West. In a country where fracking is no longer deemed as an exercise on the fringe amidst unprecedented expansion, economic boom, and ...
E. C. Merem +12 more
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A Survey of Hydraulic Fracking
, 2020 Hydraulic fracking or fracturing is a process being used all over the world in order to extract natural gas and oil from the deep sediment layers of Earth.
Wolfson, Mattie N.
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Results of Scientific and Technical Supervision of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations
Georesursy, 2017 The paper presents actual results of the research conducted as part of a field pilot project which consisted in interpretation of minifrac test data and evaluation of the efficiency of the scientific and technical supervision of fracking operations.
I.Kh. Makhmutov +5 more
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The risk of hydraulic fracturing on public health in the UK and the UK’s fracking legislation [PDF]
Environmental Sciences Europe, 2015 Hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from shale rock is a new, rapidly expanding industry in the United States (US). However, there is concern that these operations could be having large negative impacts such as groundwater contamination, increased air pollution and seismic events.
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Prospects of "Slate Revolution" and Problem of Power Industry of China
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2013 The remarkable results of “shale gas revolution” in the USA have provoked a huge interest in Chinese energy circles. Beijing seriously considers the prospects of developing its abandoned domestic shale gas resources, which might result in a second “shale
M. Scryabina
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Modeling proppant transport and settling in a 3D propagating fracture
Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.A versatile multiphysics tool is presented for simulating the complex processes involved in hydraulic fracturing treatments. The model couples fracture opening and propagation, variable‐density slurry flow, and proppant particle transport within the multiphysics object‐oriented simulation environment framework, based on two‐phase mixture equations and ...
Robert Egert +2 more
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Drilling for oil and gas in New Zealand: environmental oversight and regulation [PDF]
, 2014 This report analyses the complex system of laws, agencies, and processes that regulate New Zealand\u27s oil and gas industry. Introduction In part due to the technique of hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’, more wells are being drilled in Taranaki and ...
Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
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