Addresing environmental challenges to shale gas and hydraulic fracturing
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https://doi.org/10.21701/bolgeomin.127.4.002Keywords:
hydraulic fracturing, land occupation, methane leakage, unconventional gasAbstract
This article reviews the main issues of unconventional gas extracted by hydraulic fracturing techniques. Topics such as technology, fracturing stages, flowback characterization and alternatives of disposal and reuse, water consumption, physicochemical features of the geological formations, development of the fractures performed by hydraulic fracturing, well flow decline, land use and occupation and induced seismicity are presented, as well as the scientific debate: the potential steps of methane gas and groundwater contamination.
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