Measurements of air quality at a hydraulic fracturing site in the Surat Basin, Queensland- Draft Final ReportTask 2 Report for Project W.12Air, water and soil impacts of hydraulic fracturing: Phase 2

[摘要] Hydraulic fracturing (HF) is a well stimulation process that is used to increase the flow of gas and water from a gas well. HF involves the high-pressure injection of a large volume of fluids and solids, with minor chemical additives, into a well in order to fracture targeted coal seams and open pathways for gas and fluids to flow into the well. The potential impact on air, surface water, groundwater and soil of HF operations in coal seam gas (CSG) production are of concern to communities living in gas development regions, particularly given the lack of high quality publicly available data on air, water and soil impacts.The GISERA Air, Water and Soil Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing: Phase 2 (W.12) project aims to address the concern around the lack of available data on air, water and soil impacts by carrying out a comprehensive investigation of air, water and soil quality during HF at a site in the Surat Basin in Queensland (Figure 1). It continues on from the Phase 1 project (W.11) during which comprehensive peer-reviewed study designs were developed for air quality (Dunneet al., 2017) and water and soil quality (Apteet al., 2017) studies. This report presents the air quality data measured during well pad development operations (including HF) at a 600 ha field containing 10 CSG wells that underwent HF in August-October 2017.

[发布日期] 2019-06-20 [发布机构] CSIRO

[学科分类] 地球科学(综合)