May 2013 Exclusive Story
Natural Gas Taking Off In Power Sector
HOUSTON–It is coming our way like a freight train. Soon it will slam headlong into historical market dynamics, redirecting critical regional flow patterns and completely altering the way in which the North American natural gas market functions.
Producers across all shale gas plays are keenly aware of their water usage and the need for sustainability, both for their own operations and for society at large. In particular, producers are working to reduce the volume of freshwater used in hydraulic fracturing by recycling and reusing frac flow-back water.

Those of us who grew up with Lionel trains imagined our powerful, steaming black engines transporting people, lumber, coal and other cargo–but probably not propant sand.


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