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The 30 pages that link to Fracking, each with the reason it gives.

• QuartzRelated: Quartz-rich sand is commonly used as proppant to keep induced fractures open.

• SandstoneRelated: Fracturing can improve fluid flow in low-permeability sandstone reservoirs.

• PermeabilityRelated: Created fractures can provide high-permeability pathways through otherwise tight rock.

• Natural gasRelated: It releases gas trapped in low-permeability shale and other tight formations.

• Joint (geology)Related: It deliberately opens fractures and may reactivate existing joints.

• Effective stressRelated: Injected pressure changes effective stress on fractures and can open them.

• Hydraulic fluidRelated: It uses pressurized fluid for a different purpose: opening fractures in underground formations.

• Rock mechanicsRelated: Its fracture growth and stress interactions are analyzed using rock-mechanics principles.

• ShaleRelated: It enables commercial production from shale formations with very low permeability.

• Oil wellRelated: Fractures can connect an oil well to otherwise low-permeability formations.

• Pore water pressureRelated: Injected fluid pressure can open fractures when it exceeds the rock's resisting stresses.

• Niobrara FormationRelated: Operators use it to produce oil and gas from tight Niobrara rock.

• SandRelated: Specially graded sand can prop open fractures created in the rock.

• Sill (geology)Related: Elevated magma pressure can wedge apart strata and create space for a sill.

• Shale gasRelated: It creates pathways through shale so trapped gas can flow toward a well.

• Darcy's lawRelated: Flow through the resulting fractured formations is often modeled with porous-medium laws, though fractures can require other models.

• Neuquén ProvinceRelated: It is central to developing the province’s unconventional hydrocarbon resources.

• Petroleum engineeringRelated: It creates conductive pathways in formations that otherwise release hydrocarbons slowly.

• GeomechanicsRelated: Its design depends on how rock fractures under fluid pressure and in-situ stress.

• High PlainsRelated: Energy production has expanded in parts of the High Plains, bringing competing demands for land and water.

• LandmanRelated: The technique helps explain the boom and its hazards in the Permian Basin.

• MudrockRelated: Fracturing can connect isolated pores in gas-bearing mudrock to production wells.