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Nontoxic Fracking Fluid on the Way

Tuesday, February 5, 2013 by

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According to a recent Associated Press article, the oil and gas industry is busy developing nontoxic fracking fluids, a move designed to ease environmental concerns.

Halliburton Inc. developed a product called CleanStim. The fluid uses only food-industry ingredients.

What are fracking fluids?

Fracking fluids are pumped into well sites at high pressures to fracture shale deposits deep below the surface. Some of the fluid remains underground, the rest is brought back to the surface and is either treated as special water-treatment facilities or moved and pumped into deep-injection wells.

Traditional fluids

What has environmental groups and residents worried is the chemicals contained in the fluid. Many recipes are mostly water and sand, but the fluid can contain hydrochloric acid and other hazardous components.

The contamination of groundwater is what is worrisome, though there’s never been a report of such an incident happening.

There’s been some reports of livestock falling ill after coming into contact with fracking fluids. These livestock came into contact with the fluid after a spill.

Greener fracking fluids

Halliburton isn’t the only company working on more environmentally friendly fracking fluids.

 

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