Sentences with phrase «drill sites before»

It relies on diesel engines and generators running around the clock to power rigs, and heavy trucks making hundreds of trips to drill sites before a well is completed.

For me personally I'd never been to a drilling site before.

Not exact matches

It's a low - tech version of the drills they usually use, and it is typically employed to test core quality at a site before large - scale drilling.

Using records from more than 1.1 million births across Pennsylvania from 2004 to 2013, the researchers compared infants born to mothers living near a drilling site to those living farther away from a site, before and after fracking began at that site.

Groundwater and air quality testing before, during, and after natural gas drilling — which includes hydraulic fracturing — should be key components of efforts to ensure the safety of communities near these sites, according to an expert panel convened to weigh in on public health research needs associated with unconventional natural gas drilling operations (UNGDO).

This is why sites like goodreads and kobo have grown so fast, and it's why authors and publishers need to carefully consider the big picture of each book before drilling down to (and investing in) specific marketing efforts.

How many sites would you have to drill before the results would be significant enough to reject the hypothesis?

In addition there's of course the possibility of no snow on the drilling site (losing a layer here and there), and on some sites there could be additional layers if there's a normal melting event before the winter snowfalls, I guess.

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.

This virtual tour takes you to the sites where polar researchers have holed up year after year, drilling thousands of metres of Greenland or Antarctic ice before hitting bedrock.

If the industry's wrong, and a blowout occurs late in the drilling season, there won't be time to stop it before the winter ice chokes the site, leaving oil to gush uncontrolled for months.