Transported Water for Unconventional Oil Production (IMAGE)

DOE/Argonne National Laboratory

Transported Water for Unconventional Oil Production

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A row a tanker trucks transport water from Lake Sakakawea in North Dakota's Bakken region to oil well production sites. The water is injected under high pressure into a wellbore to fracture deep rock formations in order to release the flow of natural gas and petroleum in a process call hydraulic fracturing.

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C. E. Clark <i>et. a</i>l.

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