Toxicological & Chemical Review, Exploration and Exploitation of Shale gas and Shale Oil (Parent Rock Hydrocarbon) by Fracking (New Edition, September 2012)

Toxicological & Chemical Review, Exploration and Exploitation of Shale gas and Shale Oil (Parent Rock Hydrocarbon) by Fracking (New Edition, September 2012) by André Picot, Honorary Research Director C.N.R.S. (C.N.R.S : French National Scientific Search Center), Honorary French expert from the European Union, Specialist of Chemicals products in Workplace, Président of Toxicology-Chemistry Association (Paris) with Joelle and Pierre David and Jerome Tsarkiris, Toxicology-Chemistry Association

The actual extraction of gas will begin with a vertical borehole in which the the water mixed with sand, or barium sulfate (BaSO4) (No. 19) and various other additives chemical, Is injected from the drill bit head. This mixture comes to the surface under a sludge (100 to 125 m³ per well), the latter will the storage object in specialized centers or landfill. …

5 May 2004, in Pennsylvania, an explosion occurred in a dwelling in which the owner, by opening a water tap in the presence of a flame, resulting in the destruction of his home and the deaths of three residents. It is astonishing to learn that the concentration of methane in drinking water is sometimes of the order of 1 mg/L , which is a factor of explosion and fire very important…. [Emphasis added]

André Picot’s report in French

[Refer also to: Les produits Chimiques avec André Picot ]

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