Texas A&M: Cleaning Up the Oil Industry's Produced Water Concerns
December 17, 2020
December 17, 2020
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 17 (TNSRes) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news:
Hydraulic fracturing, an oil-recovery process in shale reservoirs, uses tremendous amounts of fresh water to crack the shale rock and free trapped oil and gas. Some of this water eventually flows back to the surface, where it can be reclaimed and treated for reuse. However, this flowback water flushes out another kind of fluid from the reservoir, called produced w . . .
Hydraulic fracturing, an oil-recovery process in shale reservoirs, uses tremendous amounts of fresh water to crack the shale rock and free trapped oil and gas. Some of this water eventually flows back to the surface, where it can be reclaimed and treated for reuse. However, this flowback water flushes out another kind of fluid from the reservoir, called produced w . . .