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Estimated Injected
Fluid Volumes

Tables L.1-L.5 contain the data used to create Figure 3.16.

TABLE L.1 Hydraulic Fracturing Volumes

Average Volume
Water (gal)

Volume Water Use
Per Well (gal)

Volume Water Use
Per Well (m 3 )

Development Area

Barnett 4,600,000 2,800,224 10,600

Eagle Ford 5,000,000 4,253,170 16,100

Haynesville 5,000,000 5,679,699 21,500

Marcellus 5,600,000 No data No data

Niobrara 3,000,000 No data No data

Average volume per well per day 4,640,000 — —

NOTE: “Daily” hydraulic fracture volume plotted assumes the hydraulic fracturing procedure would take
2 days to complete; the 1-day volume plotted is half the total well volume estimated by King (2012).
“Yearly” hydraulic fracture volume assumes 15 wells per year in the development area. Postfracturing
flowback volume is assumed to be 20 percent of the total volume injected.
SOURCE: King (2012); Nicot and Scanlon (2012).