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    Your Guide To Hydraulic Fracturing

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    The document provides facts about hydraulic fracturing and regulation of underground drinking water sources. Each state employs regulators who have effectively protected drinking water for over 60 years through oversight of fracturing activities. Fracturing of shallow coal seams poses much less risk of contamination than deep wells because lower pressures are used without chemicals. State agencies continue to stringently regulate hydraulic fracturing every day based on the differing needs of shallow and deep wells.

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    Your Guide to Hydraulic Fracturing

    Only the Facts


    FICTION required for fracturing shallow coal seams is much less than
    There is no regulatory environmental protection or oversight for deep conventional oil and gas wells. The fact that opera-
    of our nation’s underground sources of drinking water (USD- tors fracture coal seams with lower pressures than deep con-
    Ws) from hydraulic fracturing during oil and gas exploration ventional oil and gas wells alone greatly reduces the risk of
    and production activities. contamination to shallow USDWs. Deep conventional oil
    and gas producing zones require the addition of chemicals to

    FACT the hydraulic fracturing fluid, that are not used in shallow coal
    seam fracturing fluids.
    The hydraulic fracturing process was introduced in the United
    States in the 1940s and has since been effectively regulated by The reason for the different hydraulic fracturing fluid require-
    state oil and gas agencies. Each oil and gas producing state in ments is due to differences in well depths, temperatures and
    the United States employs highly educated and qualified of- pressures. Fracturing fluids used in shallow wells today are al-
    ficials, managers and inspectors in their oil and gas regulatory most entirely fresh water and quartz sand which is used as a
    agencies.These regulators have been protecting our nation’s propping agent to keep the fractures open for better produc-
    drinking water for over 60 years, and in some instances over tion and conservation of the natural gas resource.
    80 years, and have been overwhelmingly effective as there
    have been no confirmed cases of contamination associated FICTION
    with hydraulic fracturing of coal bed methane wells. We need another study.

    This regulatory oversight is truly phenomenal due to the fact


    that approximately 1 million wells have utilized the process
    to enhance oil and gas production and conserve our nation’s
    FACT
    Hydraulic fracturing has been widely used for more than 50
    resources. What other local, state or federal environmental years. Ninety percent of oil and gas wells in the United States
    regulatory agency in this country can make such a statement undergo fracturing to stimulate production, and there have
    about protecting our USDW’s and environment? been no confirmed cases of contamination of USDWs. Not
    one. There is no need to study further a problem that does
    FICTION not exist. This is a direct result of the stringent regulations
    All hydraulic fracturing fluids consist of the same chemical
    imposed by state agencies that are regulating processes such as
    constituents and all subsurface formations are hydraulically
    hydraulic fracturing everyday.
    fractured the same.
    ABOUT THE IOGCC
    The Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission is a multi-
    FACT state government agency that champions the conservation
    Coal Seam Natural Gas, also known as Coal Bed Methane, is and efficient recovery of domestic oil and natural gas
    a relatively shallow and newer source of gas which requires a resources while protecting health, safety and the environ-
    different type of hydraulic fracturing fluid than deeper con- ment. Established in 1935, it is the oldest, largest and most
    ventional oil and gas producing zones. The injection pressures effective interstate compact in the nation.

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