Water use for fracking oil resembles use for conventional production

Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 06:30 in Earth & Climate

(Phys.org) —Producing oil through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, uses similar amounts of water on average as producing oil by conventional means, according to a new study by The University of Texas at Austin's Bureau of Economic Geology.

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