Saturday, May 23, 2009
New drilling strategy used...
to tap enormous domestic natural gas reserves in shale. Directional drilling parallel to bedding, and subsequent hydro-fracturing of the fine-grained rock, is able to liberate large volumes of gas in these usually low permeability reservoirs.
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energy,
geology,
technology
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