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Hydraulic fracturing not responsible for methane migration

Author(s) -

S. C. Schon

Publication year - 2011

Publication title -

proceedings of the national academy of sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 5.011

H-Index - 771

eISSN - 1091-6490

pISSN - 0027-8424

DOI - 10.1073/pnas.1107960108

Subject(s) - adaptation (eye) , hydraulic fracturing , climate change , sustainability , macro , human systems engineering , environmental resource management , environmental economics , business , natural resource economics , computer science , environmental planning , environmental ethics , economics , ecology , environmental science , psychology , engineering , petroleum engineering , biology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , neuroscience , programming language

Although Osborn et al. (1) provided important geochemical measurements of dissolved methane in a portion of the Appalachian basin, their report does not fully appreciate the geologic history of this region and misrepresents potential risks of modern drilling and completion techniques used to develop shale-gas resources. The fear that hydraulic fracturing is responsible for methane migration from the Marcellus shale into shallow groundwater is contrasted by direct observations in microseismic studies that even the longest fractures induced by the hydraulic fracturing …

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