Many areas in the United States are currently experiencing rapid development of natural gas production wells employing the method of hydraulic fracturing to extract the gas out of shale formations.

Fresh water used in hydraulic fracturing contains microbes that can proliferate in storage tanks under the right conditions. 1 These microbes degrade guar-based fracing fluids, creating biofilms that ...

Hydraulic fracturing has attracted a lot of attention in recent years with the rise of U.S. shale oil and gas drilling and production. Hydraulic fracturing is also at the center of heated debates, ...

Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) has initiated a gas development program that requires acid fracturing wells in the Khuff carbonate reservoir of South Ghawar to deliver 1.2 bcfd of nonassociated ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a completion technique that pumps high-pressure fluid and proppant into a low-permeability reservoir to create and prop open fractures, increasing flow paths so oil can move to ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, is used to extract trapped oil and gas from underground geological ...

Many areas in the United States are currently experiencing rapid development of natural gas production wells employing the method of hydraulic fracturing to extract the gas out of shale formations.