Fracturing:

Terms Related to Fracturing

• Hydraulic fracturing

  An operation in which a specially blended liquid is pumped down a well and into a formation under pressure high enough to cause the formation ...

• Formation fracturing

  A method of stimulating production by opening new flow channels in the rock surrounding a production well. Often call a frac job. Under extremely high ...

• Explosive fracturing

  When explosives are used to fracture a formation. At the moment of detonation, the explosion furnishes a source of high-pressure gas to force fluid into ...

• Refracturing

  Fracturing a formation again. See formation fracturing, hydraulic fracturing.

• Stimulation

  Any process undertaken to enlarge old channels or to create new ones in the producing formation of a well (e.g., acidizing or formation fracturing).

• Shoot

  1. To explode nitroglycerine or other high explosives in a hole to shatter the rock and increase the flow of oil, now largely replaced by ...

• Propping agent

  A granular substance (sand grains, aluminum pellets, or other material) that is carried in suspension by the fracturing fluid and that serves to keep the ...