Three of four operating coiled tubing units in the CIS are made by Minsk enterprise NOV Fidmash. It may well be so, that in the nearest future the similar situation will become usual for hydraulic fracturing fleets.

 

The technology of hydraulic fracturing, i.e. a break of formation rock by means of the superfluous pressure created with pumping of a fluid into crack is not a new one as itself. It was applied with success in the beginning of the twentieth century in the quarries of North Carolina, the USA, to separate granite blocks from bedrock in the Mt. Airy. However the hydraulic fracturing became rather popular and claimed only in the middle of the last century, a century of energetics and energy carriers, of which up to date oil remains a fundamental one.