Oil shale

underground such as rocks, boreholes etc. so, that force open existing fissure and extract oil or gas. Fracking is basically shorthand for hydraulic fracturing, a tube of drilling that gas been used commercially for 65 years. Fracking is so dangerous and it has created very serious circumstances. Chemical used in fracking are toxic. According to nature international journal of science (2011) Extracting gas from shale increases the visibility of this resource. But the health and environment…

over how to respond to falling oil prices. Responsible for 40% of global oil output, a decision made by the group to cut production could send low prices back to their previous levels. Reaching a decision, however, will be no easy task for the oil cartel. While the wealthier nations represented in OPEC, such as Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates wish to keep production at current levels, poorer members want to cut production in order to raise the price of the oil they sell. Regardless of…

more access to natural gas and oil. “Shale gas made up a small share of natural gas productions in 2005, but has surged since then and in 2010 made up 20% of what is produced domestically. By 2030, the portion could be close to 50%.” (Robinson) Jobs in the energy related chemical sector is projected to…

Hydraulic Fracturing is defined as a process by which fractures in the rocks below the Earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting sand and/or chemicals at high pressure to extract natural gas or oil ("What is Fracking?"). Fracking is used to extract shale gas, tight sand gas, tight sand oil, and coal seam gas (better known as methane). Hydraulic fracturing is a relatively older extraction process; however, it has been gaining controversy lately over the issues of water contamination,…

Hydraulic Fracking is a drilling method used to extract gas beneath shale formations located deep below the Earth’s surface. It has been practiced for more than 50 years, but it was not until the last decade it became an issue due to a new method of drilling horizontally. Before the last decade, the practice was to drill vertically through shale bedrock to obtain access to oil or gas. In the last 10 to 15 years to the practice of horizontal drilling for methane became popular due to the…

the end the benefits of fracking outweigh the risks. If done professionally, fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is beneficial to society because it provides towns, states, and countries with the natural gas they need, and reduces costs by using old oil and gas wells. Fracking is the process of extracting natural gas from in between layers of bedrock below the surface of the earth. The process involves sending large amounts of water and sand, along with small amounts of toxic chemicals at…

Hydraulic fracturing is the method which used to extract shale gas, fracturing the rocks with water pressure to release the gas or oil. Hydraulic fracturing caused many environmental problems which are worth pondering. Many countries such as France and Bulgaria were already successively promulgate law to against using hydraulic fracturing. But Germany, Britain and maintain a positive attitude. I am the one who support hydraulic fracturing because the following reasons. Reduce the contamination…

United States, once the world’s largest producer and still its largest consumer, must import half of its oil supply, weakening its overall strategic position and adding greatly to an already burdensome trade deficit – a precarious position for a great power” (Yergin 14). So said Daniel Yergin in the prologue of his 1990 bestseller The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. Today, oil retains its importance in the hydrocarbon societies of developed and developing countries as a major…

important innovations during the 21st century. Although fracking is a very important innovation, it is not as commonly known topic in daily life. To simply describe the definition of fracking, it is a dangerous process of extracting natural gas from shale rock layers, deep within the earth. Injecting water, sand and chemicals into the rock at a high pressure, it allows the gas to flow out of the well. (Shukman, 2013) How is fracking related our daily life? Fracking contaminates our drinking…

The Environmental Protection Agency defines frackings as “A well stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of underground resources; including oil, natural gas, geothermal energy, and even water”(Environmental Protection Agency). This process, employed to release natural gas involves drilling deep into the ground and shooting a high pressure water solution into rock formations in order to release the gas inside. Although the history of fracking can be traced back to the 1940’s, it…