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• Hydraulic fracturing

  An operation in which a specially blended liquid is pumped down a well and into a formation under pressure high enough to cause the formation ...

• Explosive fracturing

  When explosives are used to fracture a formation. At the moment of detonation, the explosion furnishes a source of high-pressure gas to force fluid into ...

• Formation fracturing

  A method of stimulating production by opening new flow channels in the rock surrounding a production well. Often call a frac job. Under extremely high ...

• Propping agent

  A granular substance (sand grains, aluminum pellets, or other material) that is carried in suspension by the fracturing fluid and that serves to keep the ...

• Refracturing

  Fracturing a formation again. See formation fracturing, hydraulic fracturing.

• Fracturing

  Application of hydraulic pressure to the reservoir formation to create fractures through which oil or gas may move to the well bore.

• Sand control

  Any method by which large amounts of sand in a sandy formation are prevented from entering the wellbore. Sand in the wellbore can cause plugging ...