Post by account_disabled on Mar 10, 2024 1:16:12 GMT -5
Hydraulic fracturing of the subsoil, a technique known as fracking, is a method to enable or increase the extraction of gas and oil from the subsoil.
The technique in question consists of drilling a France Mobile Number List vertical or horizontal well, cased and cemented, at a depth of more than ,00 meters, with the objective of generating one or several channels of high permeability through the injection of high-pressure water, so that it overcomes the resistance of the rock and opens a controlled fracture at the bottom of the well.
The environmental impact of this practice is considerable. To this we must also add the potential effects on the health of living beings derived from the consequences of this common practice.
It is not a surprise that dozens of protests against fracking have been born in the United States and the rest of the world. Environmentalists seek to stop it and promote the generation of clean energy.
Meanwhile, defenders of fracking assure that this is a technique that responds to the growing demand for energy with cleaner resources than coal.
Fracking at PEMEX?
Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) will lose thousand barrels of crude oil per day if fracking is banned, according to data from the National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH).
According to Sergio Pimentel, commissioner of the energy regulator, fracking is used to extract conventional and unconventional hydrocarbons.
In the United States, these techniques have been used to increase the exploitation of hydrocarbons through so-called shale oil and shale gas. In the case of the national oil company, the barrels come from fields that have conventional resources, while those of shale oil are considered unconventional. This was stated by the official on his Twitter profile.
If fracking were banned, Pemex allocations would have to stop.
This decision would come as Pemex and the Mexican government struggle to stem the decline in its oil production, which has fallen to . million barrels a day from a record high of . million years ago.
The official refers to the bill proposed by the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) bench, in order to create an express prohibition to use this type of techniques in the country.