WaterLess Fracking in Oil Drilling is Now Available

                        
A gas frack set up


Ateneo Innovation and Entrepreneurship

The oil fracking technology has been under attack by environmentalists. And rightly so.

The oil fracking technology involves pumping high pressure water into the formation where there are oil.  Oils comes out of the pores of shale formation increasing the procductivity/yield of oil wells by as much as 30%.  The oil fracking has contributed to large inventory of oil in the US, and lower oil prices (below $90.00/barrel lately)

However, the water that is used in fracking is highly polluting.  Recovered water from fracking is contaminated with salt, other minerals and even radioactive substances. The water supply and marine life is endangered with toxic polluted water.


                                   

However a company in Calgary Alberta aptly called Gas Frac, has come up with waterless fracking technology.   It uses propane gas gel that does the job of what the water does.  The propane under high pressure and temperature does not need to be filtered of waste;  it simply evaporates.  Now the drillers and the environmentalists and the activists  are happy .  Oil drillers though are slow to accept the innovation.