REGULATORY TOOL WITH A BONUS

摘要

Besides providing transparency and reassurance about the likely quality of the local groundwater to area residents, farmers and other stakeholders, experts say the information on the websites of two publicly accessible frac chemical disclosure registries can help industry design better hydraulic fracture jobs. That's a far cry from only five years ago, when far less data was readily available. Especially in the northeastern U.S., but also elsewhere, as drilling along with increasingly complex frac completions ramped up sharply in the Marcellus and other oil and gas shale plays, public demand for the disclosure of frac ingrethents and chemicals was intensifying.