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Historical Indiana fracking information, 1940-2015
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This page contains historical information about fracking in Indiana. For more current information about fracking in Indiana, see this article.
According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources (IDNR), 505 wells were fracked in Indiana between 2005 and 2013. During that time, according to IDNR, fracking was most often used in coalbed methane extraction.[1][2]
As of 2014, detailed information about the extent to which fracking was used in Indiana was limited. The information below describes fracking and oil and gas production in Indiana generally.
Fracking background
- See also: Fracking
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a method of oil and natural gas extraction. The process involves injecting fluid into subterranean rock formation at a high pressure, creating a fracture network that allows the crude oil and natural gas inside dense rocks to flow into a wellbore and be extracted at the surface. The fluid used in this process is made up of sand and water, which comprise 95 percent of the fluid, and other chemical additives, which comprise less than 5 percent of the fluid.[3]
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there were approximately 23,000 hydraulically fractured wells in the United States in 2000. By 2015, there were an estimated 300,000 hydraulically fractured wells. To learn more about fracking, see this article.[4][5]
History
During the 1940s and 1950s, the Illinois Basin, a fossil fuels repository spanning from southern Illinois to northwest Kentucky and southwest Indiana, was the third-largest oil producing basin in the United States. Fracking was first utilized in the Illinois Basin (and, by extension, in Indiana) in the 1950s.[6][7][8]
Production
The two graphs below detail oil and natural gas production in Indiana from 2000 to 2013.[9][10][11][12][13][14]
From 2005 to 2013, 505 wells were fracked in Indiana, representing 24.1 percent of all wells drilled in Indiana during that time.[1] Fracking was used most often in coalbed methane extraction; 60 percent of coalbed methane wells during that time were fracked, according to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.[2]
Fracking in the 50 states
Click on a state below to read more about energy in that state.
See also
External links
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, "Indiana Profile"
- Frac Focus, "National Hydraulic Fracturing Chemical Registry"
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Indiana Department of Natural Resources, "Annual Well Completions and Hydraulic Fracturing Data - 2005 to 2012," accessed July 10, 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Indiana Division of Oil and Gas, "Hydraulic Fracturing 101," December 18, 2013
- ↑ Frack Wire, “What is Fracking,” accessed January 28, 2014
- ↑ University of Oklahoma, "Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Resources," accessed March 12, 2014
- ↑ U.S. Energy Information Administration, "Hydraulic fracturing accounts for about half of current U.S. crude oil production," March 15, 2016
- ↑ Free Republic, "The New Albany Shale," October 24, 2013," accessed February 27, 2014
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedIllinois Basin - ↑ Indiana Department of Natural Resources, "Hydraulic Fracturing in Indiana," accessed July 15, 2014
- ↑ One barrel of oil produces about 19 gallons of gasoline.
- ↑ U.S. Energy Information Administration, "Frequently Asked Questions," May 30, 2013, accessed March 18, 2014
- ↑ Six thousand feet of gas equals about one barrel of oil, which equals about 19 gallons of gasoline.
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey, "World level summary of petroleum estimates for undiscovered conventional petroleum and reserve growth for oil, gas, and natural gas liquids (NGL).," 2000," accessed April 23, 2014
- ↑ U.S. Energy Information Administration, "Frequently Asked Questions," May 30, 2013, accessed March 18, 2014
- ↑ Indiana Department of Natural Resources, "Production_Data," accessed July 10, 2014
