Applications include oil and gas production industry, oil and gas production companies developing carbon deposits by hydraulic fracturing.
The oil and gas industry unconventionally exploit ceramic materials as fracking proppants for the extraction of hard-to-recover oil and gas using hydraulic fracturing. A proppant is a solid material with a size of 0.2 to 2 mm. Proppants are injected into a subterranean formation together with a fracturing fluid and keep an induced hydraulic fracture open, thus increasing oil production.
