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Drillers Still Tapping Creeks in...
2015-04-12 19:11:26| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
XTO Energy stopped drawing frack water from McMahon Creek in Belmont County in December, but the company is one of several Utica and Marcellus shale drillers once again pulling from streams across Ohio for spring operations. Fracking just one horizontal well normally requires millions of gallons of water, as producers need to either haul the liquid to their sites in fleets of tanker trucks or pump it there via a pipeline.
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