On reaching the shale, the mixture of water and fracking fluid bursts open the rock and the sand keeps the fractures open, allowing the gas to flow to the surface.
Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.
The administration will develop a long-term plan for extreme weather to ensure power and heat is restored quickly, the gas stations stay open, hospitals maintain power and the city's transportation system keeps operating.
In other words, the generators were ready to run, but they had no access to natural gas because neither the gas commodity nor the gas pipeline market were open to transact supply or schedule deliveries.
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The engine will open up the world of long-distance natural gas trucking.
In this process, after a well is drilled, pressurized water is injected into the well to fracture the shale and open fissures that enable natural gas to flow more freely out of the well.
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Mr. Abe surely hopes that joining TPP will open the U.S. gas spigot.
The gas markets would then open, and after closing they would report capacity volumes traded.
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More domestic supply, which means quick assurance that Congress will open gas-rich acreage on the Outer Continental Shelf.
It refuses to open up the vast oil- and natural gas-rich Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for exploration and drilling.
Another early beneficiary might be Carbo Ceramics, which sells ceramic pellets the size of grains of sand that are pumped into the rock surrounding the wells to prop open the tiny cracks through which oil and gas flow.
Still, the Exxon Mobil chief, who is regarded as one of the most frank and open oil executives, was hopeful that natural gas would be widely used by utility plants in the U.S. to create power for the coming revolution in electric cars.
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The reinvestment of revenues from oil and gas extraction into the permanent protection of parks, open spaces, wildlife habitat, and access for recreational activities.
Next month, the government is throwing open the telecoms market, which should cut tariffs, but it argues that in the gas and electricity industries its hands are tied by long-term contracts.
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Online, America's aching Achilles' heel is the wide-open automated control systems that run the nation's networks for electricity, water, gas, oil and more.
Is the administration open to allowing more exports of natural gas to Japan?
Tamerlan started driving, using back streets in the Boston area, trying to avoid police and searching for an open gas station.
So she's certainly trying to get some of the things that Democrats want if she is going to open up some oil and gas drilling.
Ofgem welcomed the move, saying that British Gas had recognised that suppliers need an "open and honest dialogue" with their customers.
My husband and I wasted gas driving around after the storm, trying to find a place with an open electric socket where I could plug in my dead laptop to finish a deadline project.
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In the short term, an increase in the price of crude oil and liquefied natural gas does provide the company an opportunity to earn more revenues through sales in the open market.
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