Globe and Mail: Taking the water out of fracking
While the unconventional gas industry is working to manage the water it uses in fracking, Gasfrac Energy Services Inc. thinks it has a better solution.
A propane solution.
Gasfrac, based in Calgary and Houston, uses a propane-based gel in its operations, instead of injecting water into the underground cracks that make up a fracking operation.
“We use liquid petroleum gas [LPG], which is largely propane. It’s really the solution to two problems,” says Jim Hill, Gasfrac’s president and chief executive officer in Calgary. MORE