| An inside look at fracking a well |
The Denver Post
November 20, 2011, Mark Jaffe
As traffic whizzed by on Interstate 25, 12 trucks in a field near Frederick, each with a 1,200-horsepower motor, fired up and began pumping fluid out of 20-foot-high tanks and down a freshly drilled Anadarko Petroleum Corp. well.
The destination for the 450,000 gallons of high-pressure fluid was 6,000 feet below the surface, where it fractured the rock, releasing more natural gas...
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