Water Requirements for Shale Gas Fracking in Fuling, Chongqing, Southwest China

Energy Procedia

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 106-112

  Yang, Hong ^a,b   Huang, Xianjin ^a   Yang, Qingyuan ^c   Tu, Jianjun ^c   Li, Shengfeng ^a   Yang, Demin ^d,e   Xia, Hong ^d,e   Flower, Roger J ^f   Thompson, Julian R ^f  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Chongqing Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources   (China)

^e CHONGQING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

China; Chongqing; Fuling; Hydraulic fracturing (fracking); shale gas; water

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; SHALE GAS; WATER;

CAREFUL MANAGEMENT; CHINA; CHONGQING; FULING; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; SOUTHWEST CHINA; WATER CONSUMPTION; WATER REQUIREMENTS;

SHALE;

EID: 84947231906     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.862     Document Type: Conference Paper

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