Sentence examples for injected under high pressure from inspiring English sources

It upgraded platforms and introduced other methods such as the "washing machine", in which water is injected under high pressure around rock structures to force out oil from fissures which have already been drilled.

The Interior Department estimates that 90percentt of the 3,400 wells drilled each year on public and Indian lands use hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, in which large volumes of water, sand and chemicals are injected under high pressure into shale rock formations to stimulate the flow of oil and gas.

A viscous fluid containing a proppant such as sand is injected under high pressure until the desired fracturing is achieved.

After perforating dense rocks by drilling, vast quantities of water mixed with sand and chemical additives are injected under high pressure [1].

To prop open shale rocks and to release the gas large amounts of water, fine sand and chemical substances must be injected under high pressure in the ground.

A solution of water, sand and a wide range of chemicals is injected under high pressure underground to break up the shale rock where oil resides.

The news comes the same week that Loveland verified more than 2,200 voter signatures in support of a two-year moratorium on fracking, a process in which a mixture of sand, water and chemicals -- some of which have been linked to cancer -- is injected underground under high pressure to crack layers of shale and release hard-to-access oil and gas deposits.

Then those pellets are injected under high temperature and pressure into a steel mold the shape of the desired product.

Geologic formations are broken and cracked by injecting water under high pressure from the wellhead.

Fractures in the reservoir rock are opened by injecting fluids under high pressure.

Imperial Oil, based in Calgary, has replaced steam altogether by injecting solvents under high pressure but at much lower temperatures.