German chemical giant will seek domestic shale gas exploration

Reuters reported in Berlin,frac sand under the command of the German chemical giant BASF subsidiary Wintershall oil and gas CEO Rainer Seele Friday in Berlin, a media reporter, said that the company would exploration of shale gas resources in Germany, which makes large-scale hydro fracturing the possibility of such an unproven energy technologies distrust soaring country becomes more likely.
Germany has so far not decided to allow water power fracturing of  shale gas  extraction in the economic and environmental wisdom. Hydraulic fracturing method is a method of drilling using a special process, this technique requires a lot of the underground injection of chemicals and water.
In the U.S. shale gas production increased significantly after the German company Wintershall companies like Exxon Mobil, like their U.S. counterparts are eager to conventional supply is declining in Central Europe regional exploration prospect of a new natural gas reserves structure.
Seele said: "We plan in North Rhine - Westphalia, two lease areas where geological surveys to find out whether there is potential."frac proppant He said, adding that the two lease area has an area of ​​3900 square kilometers.