Russia Claims To Have Invented Alternative To Fracking

Russian scientists and local oil field services companies
claim to have created a technology for thermochemical gas
fracturing that could be an alternative to hydraulic fracturing and
could increase oil production by between 1.7 and 6 times, Russia’s
news agency RIA Novosti reports, citing the University of Tyumen’s
press service. In hydraulic fracturing, rocks are fractured with
high-pressure injection of fluids, while the new breakthrough
technology, as claimed by Russian scientists and media, is creating
chemical reactions in the…

Russian scientists and local oil field services companies
claim to have created a technology for thermochemical gas
fracturing that could be an alternative to hydraulic fracturing and
could increase oil production by between 1.7 and 6 times, Russia’s
news agency RIA Novosti reports, citing the University of Tyumen’s
press service. In hydraulic fracturing, rocks are fractured with
high-pressure injection of fluids, while the new breakthrough
technology, as claimed by Russian scientists and media, is creating
chemical reactions in the…