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To create productive natural gas wells, companies force fluids thousands of feet below the surface at high pressure to crack shale rock and release trapped natural gas. This extraction technique is called hydraulic fracturing. The fluid is made up almost entirely of water and sand.

Natural gas wells go thousands of feet below the earth's surface and groundwater supplies to free trapped natura gas in shale rock.

We are hearing a lot about the Administration’s leadership in driving oil production up. The fact is that production on federal offshore and onshore areas is down.