Historical Nebraska fracking information, 1883-2015
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This page contains historical information about fracking in Nebraska. For more current information about fracking in Nebraska, see this article.
As of 2014, detailed information about the extent to which fracking was used in Nebraska was limited. The information below describes fracking and oil and gas production in Nebraska 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.[1]
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.[2][3]
History
Oil was reportedly first discovered in southeastern Nebraska in 1883. The first producing well in Nebraska was discovered in 1940 in the southeastern part of the state. In 1949, a producing well was discovered in the western panhandle of the state.[4] Two horizontal wells were drilled in Nebraska in 1998.[5] As of February 2011, no permits had been issued for wells in the Niobrara shale formation, where fracking is quite common.[6]
Production
The graphs below detail oil and natural gas production in Nebraska from 2004 to 2013.[7]
Fracking in the 50 states
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See also
External links
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, "Nebraska Profile"
- Frac Focus, "National Hydraulic Fracturing Chemical Registry"
Footnotes
- ↑ 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
- ↑ American Oil and Gas Historical Society, "First Oil Well in Nebraska," accessed July 17, 2014
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ Nebraska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, "Production/Permit Statistics," accessed July 29, 2014
