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- noun
Water withchemical additives used in hydraulic fracking.
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Examples
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We are writing to ask your permission to develop shale gas in your states using high-volume, slickwater, hydraulic fracturing from long horizontal well legs (HVSHF).
Alison Rose Levy: What if the Gas Industry Really Wanted to Make Fracking Safer? Alison Rose Levy 2010
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I remind Parment that drilling in the Marcellus formation will utilize slickwater, horizontal hydro-fracking, which takes place on a far larger scale than the hydro-fracking that has been used in conventional wells.
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And we've heard a lot about moving primarily to slickwater, and were you previously selling HSP or a different product and you are shifting to some of your lighter weights there or could you just go into details a little bit more about technically what you are selling there?
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When I was there (two years ago) there was no slickwater fracturing.
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When I was there (two years ago) there was no slickwater fracturing.
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Evidence to date (that I am trying to explain in the tech talks, but haven't got to the downside talks yet) is that by using new technologies these fields can be produced with very high initial yields from slickwater, multi-frac'ed horizontal wells, but that these wells have a much shorter life and faster decline rate than was predicted when the production from these fields were estimated.
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The letter, whose 6,061 signatories include Congressman Eric Massa, New York Assembly Representative Barbara Lifton and Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson, calls on Paterson to go back to the drawing board: "The" slickwater, horizontal drilling, hydrofracking "required to break up and release gas from the highly impermeable rock requires vast quantities of water and generates a wide array of toxic concerns," they argue.
t r u t h o u t 2009
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The letter, whose 6,061 signatories include Congressman Eric Massa, New York Assembly Representative Barbara Lifton and Ithaca Mayor Carolyn Peterson, calls on Paterson to go back to the drawing board: "The" slickwater, horizontal drilling, hydrofracking "required to break up and release gas from the highly impermeable rock requires vast quantities of water and generates a wide array of toxic concerns," they argue.
t r u t h o u t 2009
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