Hydraulic fracturing, as a method of well stimulation, started in USA in the late nineteen forties. In the Soviet Union it was employed for the first time in 1952. Hydraulic fracturing was initially a primarily completion method for injection wells in the course of peripheral waterflooding  at that time, less often it was performed on oil wells. Later on in the former Soviet Union hydraulic fracturing was done in oil wells with river sand employed as proppant material.

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