Showing posts with label matrix acidizing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label matrix acidizing. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

Peak Oil Review and Fracking Updates







From the above link:

Florida has never been considered part of the agitated battle over fracking as a technology for extracting oil and gas. But that began to change two years ago when a Texas-based oil and gas company was found to have been using hydraulic fracturing and matrix acidizing, a fracking-like method that dissolves rocks with acid instead of fracturing them with pressurized liquid. (2/24)

[This is the first time I've heard of matrix acidizing.--P.Z.]