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