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- noun
Sand or similar particulate material suspended inwater or other fluid and used inhydraulic fracturing (fracking) to keepfissures open.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.
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Carbo Ceramics is a leader in making what's called ceramic proppant, which is the synthetic material, sand-based often, with chemicals that are injected into the fractured rock to hold open the cavities so the natural gas goes up into the piping that captures it.
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Carbo Ceramics makes ceramic proppant, which is used by the exploration and production industry during the hydraulic fracturing process.
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Carbo Ceramics makes ceramic proppant, which is used by the exploration and production industry during the hydraulic fracturing process.
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Inside the fluid is mixed with the "proppant," which is typically sand, aluminum pellets or some other small granular material that is carried into the fractures and is left to prop the crack open, thereby allowing the oil or gas to flow.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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Because of this, the solid is known as a 'proppant'.
The Engineer - News 2010
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Inside the fluid is mixed with the "proppant," which is typically sand, aluminum pellets or some other small granular material that is carried into the fractures and is left to prop the crack open, thereby allowing the oil or gas to flow.
chron.com Chronicle 2010
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"A granular material, called proppant, is suspended and transported in the fluid and fills the fracture, 'propping' it open once high-pressure pumping stops.
TheStockAdvisor 2009
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Even before Middle East turmoil boosted oil prices, revenues and profits were surging for Carbo, which dominates the market for ceramic proppant, used in shale-oil and gas production.
Five Stocks for Your Wish List James B. Stewart 2011
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Sand, the proppant, primarily quartz and feldspar aka ground up rock, is the material that gets lodged in cracks that open up, and keep those cracks open when force and pressure are removed, allowing less resistance between underground hydrocarbons, to allow them to become newly liberated hydrocarbons, which we use to power a significant portion of our country.
Energy 101: Hydraulic Fracturing - Vladimir’s blog - RedState 2010
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