Sentences with phrase «new drilling technologies»

We're going to revoke policies that impose unwarranted restrictions on new drilling technologies.»

Communities must decide whether the carbon - reducing benefit of using natural gas in power generation outweighs the fear of new drilling technologies.

March 12, 2012 • New drilling technologies and rising fuel prices have generated a boom in U.S. oil and gas drilling.

A series of letters suggests the agency will be watching closely as states in the Northeast and Midwest embrace new drilling technologies to tap vast reserves of shale gas

The EPA's comments, in a series of letters this week to the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, are significant because they suggest the agency will be watching closely as states in the Northeast and Midwest embrace new drilling technologies to tap vast reserves of shale gas.

New drilling technologies have enhanced our production, prompting us to look for professionals to help with our operations.

Many experts say that concern about the environmental consequences of fracking and other new drilling technologies may be the biggest obstacle to the continued growth of this newfound domestic energy supply.

As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

But the Chikyu will use a new drilling technology, stabilizing and lubricating its borehole with seawater instead of the drilling muds that have often caused contamination in the past.

In the 1990s, new drilling technology developed in Texas made recovering gas from shale far more efficient.

What has changed over the last decade is that new drilling technology allows long horizontal wells to be drilled, for miles along the rock layer.

Not exact matches

Fracking technology now allows for horizontal drilling with preexisting wells which do not require new capital investment for greater production.

Energy was a key beneficiary as the U.S. oil industry struck it rich with new technologies opening up once unavailable drilling opportunities.

Readers are no doubt familiar with the revolution in drilling technology that has resulted in substantial new North American oil production.

New technologies such as horizontal drilling and enhanced recovery techniques are being piloted to further improve recoveries.

Discover superior technology that drives new levels of efficiency and profitability in drilling and offshore operations.

The Republican - backed measures included ones to place an armed police officer at all New York City schools; make it a felony to threaten mass violence at a school; make it easier for schools to obtain technology hardware and software; and require schools to conduct «active shooter» drills.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is nearing completion on an environmental impact study and new regulations for gas drilling using horizontal drilling and high - volume fracking technology.

New York hasn't issued permits for shale gas wells using horizontal drilling and fracking since it began its review of the controversial technology in 2008.

Much as improved drilling and refining techniques caused the cost of oil to plummet in the 19th century, new technologies could make renewable fuels cheap and ubiquitous.

Professor Damon Teagle, from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton and a veteran of numerous scientific ocean drilling expeditions, said: «It is very exciting for IODP to be using a British ship and new technologies to investigate the strange reactions that occur when seawater meets rocks of the upper mantle.

The expanded use of drilling technology to extract resources trapped in tight formations 8,000 feet underground has opened the door to trillions of cubic feet of new natural gas reserves.

Fracking technology, once used in just a small percentage of wells, has made it possible to get gas out of deeply buried reserves and has become an essential part of drilling almost every new well.

We have new drill sampling technologies that allow us to test samples live so that companies can make smarter decisions about the existence of nearby ores.

By focusing on a specific set of case studies to which genomic techniques might be applied we will be able to drill down on these scientific challenges but also open the larger conversation about the rights and responsibilities of these new technologies.

This despite the fact that schools have «hardened» their targets with new technology, raised awareness through training and drills and changed the way they intercept troubled students.

On the flip side, we need to take a critical look at the future of distributive learning, to not allow technology to solely report to the business side of our organizations, to be cautious and not go slate (iPad) crazy, and to be wary of digital «drill and kill» or the «shiny new thing» syndrome and, to not get stuck in the endless loop of technology strategy planning sessions.

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Peak Oil places you into the shiny, pointed shoes of someone running an oil empire where you must deal with investing in new technology, drilling for oil and then selling that oil before the world has run out of its favorite fossil fuel and will presumably be turning into a post-apocalyptic scenario quite soon, possibly with some guy called Max blasting around.

It continues with works from the world's leading innovators in the arts, as they break through thresholds of space, memory, sound, and genre — from Philippe Parreno who, in his largest exhibition in the U.S. to date, transforms the presentation of visual art into an evolving sensory journey; to Wayne McGregor, Olafur Eliasson, and Jamie xx as they create a new contemporary ballet; to avant - garde performance artist Laurie Anderson who, through a site - specific installation in the Armory's drill hall, will expand upon her work with storytelling and technology to create a site - specific environment that serves as a meditation on time, identity, surveillance and freedom; and finally to Igor Levit and Marina Abramović as they interpret Bach's renowned Goldberg Variations, to create a concentrated durational performance that reflects upon music, time, space, emptiness, and luminosity.

Several years earlier, WSJ had a very insightful front - page article debunking claims that the new oil - drilling technology was so clean you could drill in ANWR without any significant impact.

«The morality play on offer from greenies and their media buddies holds that «we can't drill our way» to cheaper oil prices, but «conservation» and «new technologies» for «alternative energy» are the answer.»

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There — with new technology, with tiny footprints even on land, it is safe to drill and we need to do more of that.

Feeling rising pressure in the campaign over high gas prices (and the looming specter of extraordinary home heating costs this fall), he shifted his stance to considering some new offshore drilling if it was part of a comprehensive energy agreement including big investments and incentives for nonpolluting energy technologies.

A few months ago, I approved a proposal to consider new, limited offshore drilling under the assurance that it would be absolutely safe — that the proper technology would be in place and the necessary precautions would be taken.

For almost 30 years the federal government aggressively invested in the research and development of breakthrough drilling techniques and partnered with industry to demonstrate new technologies.

Now that the US has greatly increased sources of oil and natural gas thanks to drilling using new technology (thus obviating the need for depending on the Middle East), renewable energy advocates have fallen back on their claims that fossil fuel use must be reduced to avoid catastrophic anthropogenic global warming.

New technology has enabled producers to shift production to resources that are now easier to reach and have lower drilling costs.

The unfolding catastrophe clearly illustrates, that offshore drilling is not safe and new technology is not fool proof.

The quote from Mitt Romney's (allegedly «ghostwritten») book points to the conclusion that the USA should do more oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill») including shale deposits, to get more «energy independent» (combined, of course, with supporting basic research for new energy technologies).

New developments in drilling technology, along with higher wellhead prices, have made the Marcellus Shale an important natural gas resource.

It said it would be drilling new wells, replacing undersea infrastructure, and introducing new technologies to help it to produce as much as possible from the area, whose future would be secured «until 2030 and beyond»

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

The drilling technology has helped usher in a huge gas boom but has also triggered much grassroots opposition due to a new set of environmental concerns.

Its just that new technology (horizontal drilling and fracking) have enabled oil companies to get more gas out of the ground than in the past.

Denver Business Journal: The boom in oil and natural gas production in North America, largely due to the new technologies of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, is changing the balance of power across the world, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice told attendees at the Vail Global Energy Forum.

Vice President Cheney yesterday called for a substantial increase in domestic drilling for oil and other natural resources, including in environmentally sensitive areas, saying that only increased production — and not new technology — will satisfy the nation's demand for energy.

«The major international oil companies (IOCs) like ExxonMobil have not invested in future production as had been hoped; new technology has not dramatically improved recovery; and wells drilled over the last few years have nearly doubled but production has remained flat.