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Cracking the Brick: Hydraulic Fracturing
Shale holds oil and gas in rock a million times tighter than a normal reservoir. Episode one hundred and forty four explains how drilling sideways for kilometres and cracking the rock open in dozens of stages turned the United States into the largest oil producer in history, and why the same pressure that unlocks the rock can unlock faults. We follow a fictional completions engineer, Dariusz, through a night on a Permian pad, and real stories from the Barnett, Oklahoma, Lancashire and west Texas. Dariusz, his company and his earthquake are fictional; everything else is sourced in the…
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