Sentences with phrase «energy drilling site»
For years, Esperanza Community Housing has been fighting to permanently close the nearby AllenCo Energy drilling site, which community members say has contributed to various health problems.
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Energy companies frequently «flare» or burn off vast supplies of methane at drilling sites because it earns less money than oil.
«It is a full - fledged boom,» says Dale Redman, chief executive of Propetro, a Midland, Texas, firm that supplies heavyduty horsepower to drill sites, where energy companies coax crude from the ground with sand and water.
The site was the scene of protests during the summer when energy firm Cuadrilla carried out test drilling for oil.
Activists at a camp in Balcombe, West Sussex, where energy firm Cuadrilla was test - drilling for oil, have chained themselves together and blocked the gates to the company's site.
And much of the money for research comes from energy companies, which search for places to drill for oil at shallow sites on the seafloor.
Invest in oil and other energy stocks that own diversified drilling sites in multiple geographic locations where exploration has been successful in the past.
Developing energy from shale (and other tight - rock formations) using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling takes four to eight weeks — from preparing the site for development to production itself — after which the well can be in production up to 40 years.10 A well can be a mile or more deep and thousands of feet below groundwater zones vertically, before gradually turning horizontal.
The potential Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy site at Milford has been monitored for seismic activity since 1981 and has been the subject of intense drill and geothermal investigation and activity for 45 years.
The Associated Press (7/19/13) reports: «A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy -LSB-...]