Sentences with phrase «disposal well operations»
«It may be, however, that more earthquakes are being induced in Oklahoma because of an increase in disposal well operations and, indeed, research is going on now to investigate this possibility,» McGarr says.
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Since Clean Harbors is the only company that owns its own disposal facilities, Clean Harbors is generally the best choice for a turnkey operation at the lowest total cost.
When in the fall of 1999 we began to plan our publishing operations and the launch of our own magazine, all we had at our disposal was a good idea, lots of enthusiasm, and «willing hands».
«Approximately 36,000 of these disposal wells are currently in operation across the U.S., and little work has been done to evaluate their potential impacts on nearby surface water,» said Christopher Kassotis, a former graduate student in Nagel's laboratory and a current postdoctoral fellow at Duke University.
«This research opens new possibilities for the operation of wastewater disposal wells in ways that could reduce earthquake hazards,» Shirzaei said, in the release.
In both the DFW sequence and the Cleburne sequence, the operation of injection wells used in the disposal of natural gas production fluids was listed as a possible cause of the seismicity.
Mr. Lim outlined how individual incidents had been catalysts for significant improvements, through IMO regulations, in areas such as ship design, operation, disposal of engine room wastes, as well as the framework for compensating the victims of pollution incidents.
Chesapeake discontinued operations at that saltwater disposal well in August 2009, but says that is because there are other available disposal wells in the region.
So there were problems of inadequate garbage and sewage disposal, not enough hotel rooms, and camps being set up — on the barrier islands of the Bay as well as on the peninsula itself — with only sporadic presence of field personnel to ensure that these operations were doing everything possible to minimize their impact on fragile dune habitat.
The Texas company will also spend «spend $ 20 million to implement preventive measures and the required recycling and disposal of fluids from hydraulic fracturing and well operations.»
There are several injection wells in the area — three of which some suspect to be the cause of the quakes due to their proximity to impacted neighborhoods and the volume of disposal operations.
It was only after deep injection disposal wells used to house fracking's toxic wastewater went into operation that the earthquakes started.
Key state regulations include: Review and approval of permits; well design, location and spacing; drilling operations; water management and disposal; air emissions; wildlife impacts; surface disturbance; worker health and safety; and inspection and enforcement of day - to - day oil and gas operations.
In addition, the injection of wastewater from oil and gas operations for disposal into deep underground wells is also altering the stresses of geologic faults, unleashing earthquakes [140].22 Increases in the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events can impact agriculture and ecosystems [71,141].
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