Hydraulic Fracturing: A Fool's Gold

In the depths of the United States there is a shale layer rich in natural gas, which contains sufficient fossil fuel to move the United States for nearly a century. A major oil company like Haliburton started extracting natural gas consisting mainly of methane through a process called hydraulic crushing. Natural gas seems to be able to protect the United States from the energy crisis, but it requires a large amount of resources, harmful chemical substances and adversely affects the environment, so there are still many people who oppose hydraulic crushing.

Large scale hydraulic fracture (also known as large scale hydraulic fracturing) was first introduced by Pan American Petroleum in 1968 in Stevens County, Oklahoma, USA. The definition of large hydraulic crushing varies, but generally refers to the treatment of more than 150 short tons, or the injection of about 300,000 pounds (136 tons) of propant. American geologists increasingly recognize that gas permeability is too low (usually less than 0.1 mildarl) gas saturated sandstones to recover natural gas economically. Since 1973, massive hydraulic fracturing has been used in thousands of gas wells in the San Juan Basin, the Denver Basin, the Pisease Basin, the Green River Basin, and other hard rock formations in the western United States.

Hydraulic crushing is a technique used for "non-conventional" natural gas production. "Reservoir" reservoirs can be economically and efficiently produced only by using special stimulation techniques such as hydraulic crushing and other special recycling processes and techniques. This is because gas is usually dispersed very much in the rock, not in the underground location where the gas concentrates. Extraction of unconventional natural gas is relatively new. CBM production began in the 1980s and shale gas mining is more recent. Main support technologies, hydraulic crushing and horizontal drilling have pioneered new fields of oil and gas development, especially natural gas reservoirs such as shale, coal seams and tight sandstone.

Shale hydraulic fracture dates back to 1965, when some of the operators of the Big Sandy oil fields in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia started using Ohio Shale and Cleveland Shale for relatively small crushing. The crushing operation usually increases production, especially from low yield wells. In 1976, the US government launched an Eastern gas shale project including many public and private civil hydraulic fracturing demonstration projects. During the same period, the Natural Gas Industry Research Institute, Natural Gas Research Institute received research and fund approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.