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Thursday, April 9, 2015
Algeria may have found a way to placate its citizens protesting the use of fracking technology in the In Salah region of the country. The government is exploring a new technology out of France that does away with the need to use hydraulic fracturing to extract natrual gas from shale.
The possible technology comes from an expert report contracted by the French government on the experimental use of extracting shale gas using fluoropropane. According to French daily Le Figaro the technique has yet to be tested properly but the study of its possible use was conducted by some of the brightest minds in France.
The technique would have fluoropropane injected into rock to achieve the fracturing as opposed to the traditional water and chemicals. According to experts the recovery of fluoropropane is easier than water and drilling less destructive for the environment.
The study on the “new exploration and exploitation technologies” of shale gas was conducted by experts from various areas of the French government including the General Council of the economy, industry, energy, and technology, the DGCIS (direction general of industry), Treasury, and the IFP (French Petroleum Institute).
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