Impurities present in raw natural gas require extraction before subsequent processing. Common impurities encompass carbon dioxide, water, hydrogen sulfide, ethane, methane, butane, and volatile ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas ...

Tight gas reservoirs are characterized by narrow pores and throats, abundant clay minerals, and developed fractures. These lead to severe formation damage during drilling, negatively affecting ...

However, gas companies were developing “hard rock” resources in the 1970s-1990s rather than tight gas resources. While they needed hydraulic fracturing, the resources’ permeabilities were higher and ...