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Fracturing bedrock by pressurized liquid
Fracking is a well stimulation technique involving the fracturing of formations in bedrock by a pressurized liquid. The process involves the high-pressure injection of "fracking fluid" into a wellbore to create cracks in the deep-rock formations through which natural gas, petroleum, and brine will flow more freely. When the hydraulic pressure is removed from the well, small grains of hydraulic fracturing proppants hold the fractures open. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: FrackingA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Frack-Off: Social Media Fights Against Fracking in ArgentinaInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Numerical Simulation in Hydraulic FracturingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: To Frack or Not to Frack? The Interaction of Justification and Power in a Sustainability ControversyCited 97 times
- Go sideways: Well stimulationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Environmental impact of frackingA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Verb To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
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Adjective Alternative form of freck.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
To Frack or Not to Frack? The Interaction of Justification and Power in a Sustainability Controversy
Capillary tension and imbibition sequester frack fluid in Marcellus gas shale
‘Frack off’: Towards an anarchist political ecology critique of corporate and state responses to anti-fracking resistance in the UK
How Dallas became frack free: hydrocarbon governance under neoliberalism
To frack or not to frack: Perceptions of the risks and opportunities of high-volume hydraulic fracturing in the United States
Frack to the future: What enticed small firms to enter the natural gas market during the hydraulic fracturing boom?
What the Frack? The Impact of Seismic Activity on Residential Property Values
The facts behind the frack: Scientists weigh in on the hydraulic fracturing debate
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Numerical Simulation in Hydraulic FracturingXinpu Shen, William Standifird · 2017
The FrackersGregory Zuckerman · 2013- 📕Surface Chemistry and Geochemistry of Hydraulic FracturingK. S. Birdi · 2016
The boomRussell Gold · 2014- 📕Concept development of a hydraulic skimmer system for recovery of floating oilPacific Northwest Laboratory. · 1971
- 📕Shale gasHenry Craddock · 2012
Cold Hungry And In The Dark Exploding The Natural Gas Supply MythBill Powers · 2013
Fracking PennsylvaniaWalter M. Brasch · 2013
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