Given the lack of success hydraulic fracturing had been in producing the Monterey, companies have been trying other methods to get production high enough to meet the cost for the field.
‘Acidizing’ oil wells — bigger than fracking?
http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/08/12/acidizing-oil-wells-bigger-than-fracking/
August 12, 2013
nyone following the spread of fracking in California should check out an interesting — and frustrating — report this week from former San Francisco Chronicle journalist Rob Collier.
It’s about “acidizing,” an oil production technique that involves pouring large amounts of hydrofluoric or hydrochloric acid down wells. Collier argues that it could be more effective than hydraulic fracturing as a way to unlock the Monterey Shale, an immense rock formation beneath central California that could hold more than 15 billion barrels of oil.