Sentences with phrase «drilling boom»

It is no secret that a number of metropolitan areas in the south and west have benefited significantly from the recent oil and gas drilling boom.

It's clear that Immelt wants to take advantage of the shale drilling boom in the period of natural gas revolution.

It's a simple change that could have profound effects — especially as the shale drilling boom provides abundant new supplies of natural gas.

I recently attended a Manhattan screening of «Promised Land,» a new feature film written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski that aims to examine America's natural gas drilling boom as a case study in «what happens when real people and real money collide,» as Krasinski explained in publicity materials.

They are just beginning to emerge in Pennsylvania, where the Marcellus Shale drilling boom began in earnest in 2008.

I've been meaning to post for awhile on «Gas Rush Stories,» a series of simple, but captivating short films on America's gas drilling boom made by Kirsi Jansa, a Finnish video journalist currently living in Pittsburgh.

Measure 5 in North Dakota would earmark oil revenues from the state's drilling boom strictly for land conservation.

Inside the fight: The recent drilling boom has left North Dakota in an enviable financial position.

The Haynesville Shale is one of the founding fathers of the modern shale drilling boom.

Other parts of the country with shale beds («plays» in industry parlance), such as Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas, and Louisiana, have experienced similar gas drilling booms.

According to the IEA, the drilling boom for shale oil is putting US production on track to pass Saudi Arabia.

Tuesday's indictment followed a nearly four - year federal antitrust probe that began after a 2012 Reuters investigation found that Chesapeake had discussed with a rival how to suppress land lease prices in Michigan during a shale - drilling boom.

In Pennsylvania's gas drilling boom, newer and unconventional wells leak far more often than older and traditional ones, according to a study of state inspection reports for 41,000 wells.

Owing to this bounty, the areas above the shale are now in the grip of an unprecedented gas - drilling boom.

A drilling boom is under way and in June this year, oil production rose nearly 30 percent compared with the same period in 2012, to 161,000 barrels of oil each day.

Forest County, Pa. has also seen an increase in economic activity after a spike in the number of wells in the area due to the drilling boom in the Marcellus shale.

Fracking Bryan R. Walsh of Time Magazine has beautifully summarized energy issues that are simmering today as President Obama takes his education - oriented bus tour to Binghamton, N.Y., at the epicenter of the fight over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the gas drilling boom it has spawned:

Aug. 3, 9:34 a.m. Updated with reply from Sandra Steingraber A recurring focus here of late has been the fractious nexus of policy, politics and science related to the nation's gas drilling boom.

A Green Blog post by Jon Hurdle describes what looks like a helpful new academic initiative to assess potential health impacts of the country's gas - drilling boom:

State geologists had been criticized in previous years for not making the connection to the water disposal surge from the drilling boom.

8:21 p.m. Updated The producers of Bloggingheads.TV invited me to join Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica in a discussion of the drilling boom aimed at the vast deposits of natural gas identified in deep shale layers and other deposits around North America and, increasingly, the world.

The Stack formation, along with the nearby Scoop, is going through a drilling boom as it offers good returns at a $ 50 oil price.