Sentences with phrase «oil drilling produced»

Oil drilling produced more than 130 billion gallons of water last year.

Not exact matches

There have been a number of high - profile derailments of trains — including one by UP — carrying shale oil, much of which is produced in new drilling areas without established pipeline networks and must be moved by rail.

That year, drillers packed into the Permian basin in western Texas, where the cost of producing oil is low but the price tag on land — and the companies who own it — has skyrocketed.

Oklahoma has been a huge oil - producing state, and while drilling - heavy states have tended to do well in previous editions of our rankings, the collapse in oil prices and in active drilling rigs is starting to hurt.

Beyond the actual gas project and LNG sales, China's state - run shipping conglomerate COSCO has also secured a 50 percent stake in the four LNG shipping carriers serving Yamal.90 Chinese engineers and workers have been deployed to the Yamal Peninsula to help construct surrounding infrastructure, which includes a Chinese - produced polar drilling rig.91 Moreover, a Chinese oil and gas rig producer now provides Russia with about 60 percent of its imported oil rig supplies, indicating that China is becoming a dominant player in this sphere.92 Chinese media recently hailed Yamal as an example of China's construction and engineering prowess and a symbol of its transformation into an Arctic player.93 In return for China stepping into support the project, senior officials from Novatek, the main shareholder of the project, announced that the first LNG shipment would symbolically go to China.94 But a British subsidiary of Malaysia's Petronas purchased the first shipment of Yamal LNG and sold it to France's Engie, which then shipped the cargo to its Boston import facility for American use.95 Western sanctions on Novatek, Russia's largest independent national gas producer and a company with close ties to the Kremlin, made Yamal's pivot to China possible, as sanctions forced Russia to find an alternative source of investment and technology.

New U.S. oil drilling has produced loads of crude oil, allowing companies to purchase it domestically for much less than it was selling for overseas.

A drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing in shale rock formations — fracking — in the U.S. produced large amounts of crude oil, natural gas and other petroleum products.

Slumping oil prices have caused Conoco — and most if not all of its peers — a lot of pain as it costs oil drillers more to produce a barrel of oil than they can sell it for.

Above, you'll find a list of how many drilled but uncompleted wells (DUC) can be found in our largest oil - producing regions.

Even afterward the impact of the strike was far from clear: The well soon went dry, and the drilling techniques Drake pioneered produced just 2,000 barrels of oil in the United States in that first year.

Most Oklahoma earthquakes since 2009 are thought to have been triggered by wastewater produced by oil and gas drilling that has been injected back into the ground.

Most of the drill sites flooded had already been fracked, and were actively producing oil or gas — so chemicals added to fracking fluids should not have been on site.

Mark Brownstein, a climate expert at the non-profit Environmental Defense Fund, said the countries, two of the world's largest petroleum drillers, showed real leadership in «setting a mark for other major oil and gas producing nations.»

Water also comes to the surface during oil drilling, but it is unclear how much of that «produced water» is reused by the oil companies for new production because there are currently no reporting requirements, something the bill seeks to address.

The affected well was originally drilled in the 1950s to produce crude oil.

During more than the past five years through June 30, 2009, our emphasis had been participation in the oil and gas segment, acquiring interests in producing oil or gas properties and participating in drilling operations.

But while drilling is permitted occasionally on federal reserves, only minimal amounts of oil and gas are produced.

eg on Page 4 Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing as a means for producing oil and natural gas began in the early 2000s.10 aka Cheney et al..

Senator Barack Obama commented on the drilling idea on Tuesday, saying: «Much like his gas - tax gimmick that would leave consumers with pennies in savings, opening our coastlines to offshore drilling would take at least a decade to produce any oil at all, and the effect on gasoline prices would be negligible at best since America only has 3 percent of the world's oil.

The bill aims to thread various needles, for instance including measures to encourage a shift from coal and oil to natural gas (which produces roughly half the emissions per unit of energy) but in ways that won't alarm environmentalists worried about impacts of expanded gas drilling.

ConocoPhillips is a powerful member of the API powerhouse of fossil fuel interests and is very determined to open more federal waters to oil drilling -LSB-...] in an April 22, 2003, news release: «The partnership between the National Science Teachers Association and ConocoPhillips has produced a very valuable tool for our nation's science teachers,» said Gerald Wheeler, NSTA Executive Director.

In the meantime, The Times and International Herald Tribune have produced a hefty special section on global energy trends (some elements have enraged solar enthusiasts), the Obama administration has given BP its first post-spill permit to drill in the Gulf of Mexico and Michael Levi has roundly debunked a gushy jobs estimate from proponents of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

There, gas produced during oil drilling is routinely flared because there's no established local market.

With a drilling footprint of less than 2,000 acres — less than one - tenth of 1 percent of this distant Alaskan terrain — America could produce an estimated 10 billion barrels of oil.

Groat joined the board of Pogo Producing, a Houston - based oil and gas driller, in November 2005, just five months after resigning as director of the U.S. Geological Survey (amidst a scandal and Congressional investigation, described below).34 When Pogo was acquired in 2007 by Plains Exploration & Production (PXP), Groat became a director there, and has remained on the PXP board since.

«The goal of Sapphire is to produce a crude product that can be introduced into the existing crude stream for production costs that are similar to other new opportunities like oil shales, oil sands, and even deep, deep water drilling,» Jason Pyle, Sapphire's chief executive said in an interview.

Decades ago when the most accessible reserves were drilled, an oil company might produce 100 barrels of oil or more for each barrel's worth of energy invested.

Although oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform site may in fact be creating the greatest environmental and economic harm in U.S. history so far, there is new evidence that another looming environmental problem is likely to produce far worse environmental and economic impacts not only for the United States but particularly for some of the poorest people around the world.

Practically overnight, it seems, this drilling technique has produced so much oil and gas beneath American soil that we are at the brink of something once thought unattainable: true energy independence.»

As the well is drilled deeper, additional casing is installed to isolate the formation (s) from which oil or natural gas is to be produced, further protecting groundwater from the producing formations in the well.

These companies are benefiting from the huge investments needed to explore, produce, process and transport oil and gas unlocked from previously inaccessible dense rock formations through advances in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, according to the findings by Houston - based energy analyst firm IHS.

Ozone is an odorless gas that is not directly emitted into the air but is created by chemical reactions between nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOC)-- which occur naturally but are also produced from the burning of fossil fuels and are released in the process of drilling for oil and natural gas.

FYI, I consult to the natural gas / oil drilling industry on produced water treatment and waste disposal.

Admiral (retired) Dennis McGinn said: «A nation that uses more than 20 percent of the oil that is produced globally every single year, that sits on at best estimates 3 percent of the known reserves can not drill its way out Continue reading Dangerous and Myopic →

A bore hole drilled or being drilled for the purpose of or to be used for producing, extracting or injecting gas, petroleum or another liquid related to oil or gas production or storage, including brine disposal, but excluding a bore hole drilled to produce potable water.

In terms of oil produced per day of rig drilling time, Bakken wells drilled in January 2014 produced 2.4 times as much oil as those drilled five years earlier, in January 2009.

New domestic drilling will take years to produce any oil, so this Pelos stuff has nothing to do with the current crisis.

But producing oil sands is a messy, emissions - intensive business; according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the extraction process produces 82 percent more emissions than conventional oil drilling.

The most ardent drilling opponents, who contend that exploration of the outer continental shelf puts oceans at risk without producing short - term relief from gasoline prices, said there is still time for the next president and future Congresses to work out a new compromise before oil rigs are erected within sight of the nation's coasts.

Contacted landowners and other representatives of coal and oil firms to settle agreements, such as royalty contracts, options and leases for producing activities in particular coal and oil fields, drilling and exploration