Additional environmental concerns stem from the technology’s implications for water resources. Hydraulic fracturing of a single horizontal well can involve injection of millions of gallons of a 98% ...

conducted a 30-stage hydraulic fracturing (FRACKING) using Plug and Perf technology at a new horizontal well of the Priobskoye field. This made it possible to increase the launch flow rate of oil by 2 ...

Like fracking, horizontal drilling was invented decades ... was that the fractures that allowed oil and gas to reach the well bore could also allow oil, gas, and chemicals to seep into the water ...

Cementing in horizontal wells in some unconventional reservoirs could also make fracturing difficult by forcing fracture treatments to be pumped through perforations. With the introduction of non ...

An energy company has applied to the government to carry out fracking at the UK's first horizontal shale gas well. Cuadrilla said it has submitted the application for its Preston New Road site in ...

Fracking in the Karoo has been in the legislative pipeline for a decade, with a version of the proposed regulations first ...