Download or read book Wastewater and Shale Formation Development written by Sheila Olmstead and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. The number of tight oil and shale gas wells continues to rise primarily in the US, but also worldwide. The US has vast reserves of oil and natural gas, which now are commercially reachable as a result of advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies. But as hydraulic frac