查看更多>>摘要：By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News – A patent application by the inventors Bodishbaugh , Adrian Benjamin (The Woodlands, TX, US); Murtland, Carrie (The Woodlands, TX, US), filed on January 29, 2024, was made available online on September 26, 2024, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx corres pondents. This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution. The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by the inventors: “Hydraulic fracturing has been commonly used by the oil and gas industry to stimulate production of hydrocarbon wells, such as o il and/or gas wells. Hydraulic fracturing, sometimes called “fracing” or “fracki ng,” is the process of injecting fracturing fluid, which is typically a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals, into the subsurface to fracture the subsurface ge ological formations and release otherwise encapsulated hydrocarbon reserves. The fracturing fluid is typically pumped into a wellbore at a relatively high press ure sufficient to cause fissures within the underground geological formations. S pecifically, once inside the wellbore, the pressurized fracturing fluid is press ure pumped down and then out into the subsurface geological formation to fractur e the underground formation. A fluid mixture that may include water, various che mical additives, and proppants (e.g., sand or ceramic materials) can be pumped i nto the underground formation to fracture and promote the extraction of the hydr ocarbon reserves, such as oil and/or gas. For example, the fracturing fluid may comprise a liquid petroleum gas, linear gelled water, gelled water, gelled oil, slick water, slick oil, poly emulsion, foam/emulsion, liquid carbon dioxide, nit rogen gas, and/or binary fluid and acid.
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