Global Market for Proppants to Reach 90.0 Million by 2020, Growing at CAGR of 10.5% by 2020
A proppant is a solid material suspended in water or other fluid to keep fixtures open during hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing is a technique used by gas companies in which sand or other proppants are injected into the cracks or fractures to release trapped gas deposits. The most common types of proppants are grains of silica sand (raw or resin-coated) and man-made (engineered) ceramic material. Proppants have to deal with high pressures, temperatures and fluids – water (fresh and salt),...
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