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Progress in Petrochemical Science

Hydraulic Fracturing (“Fracking”) and Rebirth of United States Chemical Industry

  • Open or CloseMakarand R Gogate*

    Independent Consultant for Ch.E Education and Research, India

    *Corresponding author: Makarand R Gogate, Independent Consultant for Ch.E Education and Research, India

Submission: June 05, 2020 Published: June 22, 2020

DOI: 10.31031/PPS.2020.03.000562

ISSN 2637-8035
Volume3 Issue3

Abstract

The use of hydraulic fracturing the extract oil and gas from the earth, dates back to 1940s, but only in the last decade or so, has the word “Fracking” become a buzzword. Fracking alludes primarily to the shale gas boom in the United States, since about 2008, and also refers to the process - the high pressure injection of water, chemicals, and sand into the shale rock deposits – to release gas and oil trapped within shale rock by fracturing it, to harvest stores of gas and oil, previously unfeasible to access or recover.

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