Of the world's top energy consumer China,bauxite proppant the world's first shale gas reserves is undoubtedly good news. On the one hand, the International Energy Agency said earlier, to 2035, China's natural gas consumption will increase by five times or; on the other hand, 70% of China's total energy consumption is coal, dependence on coal resulted in severe air pollution .
But the World Resources Institute (WRI) in announced the good news, but also poured cold water: more than three-fifths of China shale oil and gas resources are located in water-scarce areas, and the exploitation of shale gas without water. Existing shale gas extraction process, is together will inject millions of liters total water, sand and chemicals underground shale, ceramic proppant supplier fracturing the rock, so that shale gas overflow. Sustainable Resource Management as a non-governmental research institutions, WRI said that in the United States, only drilling requires 200,000 to 2,500,000 liters of water, hydraulic fracturing link demand for water is as high as 7 million to 23 million liters.