Tight Oil
Also known as shale oil, shale-hosted oil or light tight oil, it is light crude oil contained in petroleum-bearing formations of low permeability, often shale or tight sandstone.
Environmental Impact
- Fracking uses huge amounts of water, which must be transported to the site at significant environmental cost.
- Fracking can affect drinking water.Fracking liquids can leak into a community's groundwater either by accident or if they are incorrectly disposed of. If the fields are near groundwater reservoirs, the fracking fluid can be directly injected into drinking water. In areas with low water availability, the drillers are competing with nearby communities for this ....
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