Recent advances in waterless fracturing technology for the petroleum industry: An overview

Abstract This review presents comprehensive waterless fracturing technologies and the latest advances in the field; summarizes and analyzes their technical principle, construction technology, performance characteristics, advantages and disadvantages, and field applications; and clarifies future research directions. The innovation of this paper is the proposal of a potential waterless fracturing technology. Due to its unique and excellent performance, the author believes that it can perform excellently in future unconventional resource development. In addition, this article provides a large number of recent field applications that can intuitively know the application of waterless fracturing technology.

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