Feasibility of using brackish groundwater desalination concentrate as hydraulic fracturing fluid in the eagle ford shale

Shale Energy Engineering 2014: Technical Challenges, Environmental Issues, and Public Policy - Proceedings of the 2014 Shale Energy Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 23-32

  Ghahremani, Nima ^a   Clapp, Lee ^a  

^a Texas AandM University Kingsville   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESALINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FRACTURING FLUIDS; GAS INDUSTRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; POTABLE WATER; PUBLIC POLICY; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

BRACKISH GROUND WATER; CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; FRESH WATER CONSUMPTION; FRESHWATER SUPPLY; GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY; SOURCE OF WATERS; WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES;

SHALE;

EID: 84905983172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/9780784413654.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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