**EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE HYDRAULIC FRACTURING**

Edited by **Andrew P. Bunger, John McLennan** and **Rob Jeffrey**

#### **Effective and Sustainable Hydraulic Fracturing**

http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/45724 Edited by Andrew P. Bunger, John McLennan and Rob Jeffrey

#### **Contributors**

Mike Vincent, Xi Zhang, Rob Jeffrey, Safdar Abbas, Brice Lecampion, Xiaoxi Men, Chun'An Tang, Shanyong Wang, Y.P. Li, Tao Yang, Tianhui Ma, Norman Warpinski, Dimitry Chuprakov, Olga Yurievna Melchaeva, Romain Prioul, Alexander Linkov, Gennady Mishuris, Nikolai Weber, Bisheng Wu, Neda Zangeneh, Nima Gholizadeh Doonechaly, Sheik Rahman, Andrei Kotousov, Michael Molenda, Sebastian Brenne, Ferdinand Stoeckhert, Michael Alber, Sergey Turuntaev, Evgeny Zenchenko, Branko Damjanac, James Kear, Justine White, Andrew Bunger, Mir-Akbar Hessami, Mao Bai, Arturo Diaz, John Mclennan, Juan Reyna, Tsuey Cham, Peter Stone, Lucas W Bazan, Bruce R Meyer, Olga Kresse, Xiaowei Weng, Charles Cohen, Charles Fairhurst, Azadeh Riahi, Anthony Peirce, Emmanuel Detournay, Zuorong Chen, Christine Detournay, Dmitry Garagash, Sau-Wai Wong, Mikhail Geilikman, Guanshui Xu, Arcady Dyskin, Hyunil Jo, Robert Hurt, Yevhen Kovalyshen, Ian Walton, Jacob Bradford, Walter Glauser, Erfan Sarvaramini, Marte Gutierrez, Feng Gui, Neal Nagel, Fengshou Zhang, Marisela Sanchez-Nagel, Byungtark Lee, Xavier Garcia, Reinhard Jung, S. Sengupta, Arshad Islam, Antonin Settari, Reza Keshavarzi, Clem Rowe, Joel Adams, Arash Dahi Taleghani, Jon Olson, Mirko Van Der Baan, Peter K. Kaiser, Benoit Valley, Damien Duff, Maurice B. Dusseault, Varahanaresh Sesetty, Ahmad Ghassemi, Milind Deo, Farrokh Sheibani, Carl T. Montgomery, Barry Goldstein, G. Steyl

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