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BMP ID: 6190
Title: Slurry Injection of Drilling Wastes
Text: Slurry Injection "involves grinding or processing solids into small particles, mixing them with water or some other liquid to make a slurry, and injecting the slurry into an underground formation at pressures high enough to fracture the rock."
Source Publication Name: Drilling Waste Management Information System
Citation Section: Technology Descriptions: Fact Sheet - Slurry Injection of Drilling Wastes
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Usage Type: Recommended
Timing: • Drilling
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Surface Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Mineral Ownership: • Federal
• State
• Private
Primary Contact: Argonne National Laboratory
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Alternate Contact: National Energy Technology Laboratory
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Categories: Land Surface Disturbance
Other
Location: General / Federal
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Date Entered: 2009-08-19 12:25 UTC
Last Updated: 2009-09-24 10:21 UTC