Sentences with phrase «drilling sites»

Energy companies frequently «flare» or burn off vast supplies of methane at drilling sites because it earns less money than oil.

Natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines that move natural gas from areas of supply to areas of demand.

Air pollutants monitored near natural gas drilling sites were measured at five times federal standards.

We also handled construction and drilling site accidents, motorcycle accidents and any other type of negligence claims.

In certain high security areas, certain electronic devices are banned to avoid theft of plans or information surrounding potential drilling sites.

The hazards on drilling sites range from massive, sometimes poorly maintained equipment to the constant potential for explosions.

Finding suitable drill sites can be a big headache.

Although natural gas is less carbon - intensive than coal, some natural gas leaks into the air at drilling sites, processing plants and pipelines.

Groups opposed to fracking have raised the alarm over images of storage tanks shifted off their foundations at oil and gas drilling sites.

Learn about the climate risks of natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines.

From a recent article in the LA Times about Big Oil's calculations, Mobil oil's engineers were calculating for climate warming sea - level rises in Canadian drilling sites in 1996: One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea levels.

[21] In 2008, measured ambient concentrations near drilling sites in Sublette County, Wyoming were frequently above the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) of 75ppb and have been recorded as high as 125 ppb.

In the U.S. the Obama Administration has granted sweeping approval to a wide swathe of drilling sites in its Arctic waters, despite widespread condemnation from environmentalists and northern indigenous communities.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is now assessing the status of flooded drilling sites.

Conducted surface inspections on several proposed drilling sites in Cheyenne County, Colorado.

Curiosity is now long gone from Yellowknife Bay, off to new drilling sites on the route to Mount Sharp where more dating can be done.

The Associated Press (7/19/13) reports: «A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy -LSB-...]

Activists have completed a six - day protest camp held near a exploratory oil drilling site in West Sussex.

On Friday she decided to cross the police line erected around the Kinder Morgan drill site on Burnaby Mountain.

A flow cytometric method to measure prokaryotic records in ice cores: an example from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Divide drilling site Journal of Glaciology, in press, p. 1 - 19.

Other impacts of tight oil include potentially significant water, air, and noise pollution around drilling sites, and the risk of oil spills by the trucks, trains, and pipes that transport extracted shale oil to refineries.

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.

There is no public notice, no public comment, and no right to appeal for drill sites, pipelines, or compressor stations.

Shale gas developer Cuadrilla will be appealing against Lancashire County Council's decision to refuse planning permission for its proposed exploratory drilling sites at Roseacre Wood and Preston New Road.

Further evidence for the difference between methane from water wells near active drilling sites and neighboring nonactive sites is the relationship of methane concentration to δ13C - CH4 values (Fig. 4A) and the ratios of methane to higher - chain hydrocarbons versus δ13C - CH4 (Fig. 4B).

Drilling site managers, who oversee exploration projects, are in huge demand, with both number of employees and salaries up by more than a third over five years.

Its mineral veins, laid down in long - ago water, are different from those I found near my first drill site.

We subsequently found the YTT at 26.77 — 26.79 MBLF in drill site MAL05 - 2A, which confirms the existing stratigraphic correlation between the central and northern basin cores.

Protesters from the UK's anti-fracking network Frack Off have invaded a test drilling site in Lancashire and occupied its drilling rig.

(1)(For other case studies of funding see the essay on Funding Keeling's Measurements and the experimental Greenland Ice Drilling site.

The occurrence of artefacts in earlier ice core records mainly from Greenland drill sites [enrichment of CO2 due to chemical reactions in the ice; depletion of CO2 due to fractionation during clathrate formation (5)-RSB- can be avoided by careful sample selection.

Esperanza's Budlong Apartments - a 12 - unit apartment building located less than two miles from the AllenCo drilling site - is one of the nearly 800 buildings in Los Angeles that qualify for SOMAH benefits.

The next step is to survey the identified drill sites to measure the ice thickness and temperature at the bottom of the ice sheet before selecting a final drill location.

I guess he doesn't know (or doesn't say) that his corporate sponsors are using the ongoing decrease in arctic ice as a reason to explore more drilling sites in north polar waters.

For years, Esperanza Community Housing has been fighting to permanently close the nearby AllenCo Energy drilling site, which community members say has contributed to various health problems.

By: Henry Lazenby 28th September 2016 Multinational drilling equipment and services provider Boart Longyear has received an award of C$ 1.37 - million from the Ontario government to help improve safety at mineral exploration drilling sites and the efficiency of drilling systems technology.

During my own most recent trip, I visited a village water drilling site and a prison, both targeted with US - made precision - guided weapons.

Parliament's only Green MP pleaded not guilty to a public order charge today, following her arrest during an anti-fracking protest at a Cuadrilla drilling site in Balcombe, West Sussex.

The volatile organics released into the air from drilling sites pose a threat to local populations.

Their scientists flew more than 250,000 kilometres across much of West Antarctica — including the areas draining to the Ross and Ronne ice shelves — and part of East Antarctica, including the famous ice - core - drilling sites Vostok and Dome C.

«This model would say that after three months you should pack up and drill in another location if you have a number of distinct drilling sites that you're exploring.»

They found that wells located within 1 kilometre of an active shale - gas drilling site contained 17 times as much methane on average as those further away.

Free to choose the cheapest, most direct way to reach drilling sites, oil companies dredged canals off natural waterways to transport rigs and work crews.

The five - acre drill site, a 12 - minute drive from Parkfield, is on the transition between the southern, locked section and the creeping section.

But after pausing for 2 weeks in December 2016 to focus on fixing the drill, the Curiosity team decided to start driving again, leaving behind a promising drilling site and potential wet chemistry target.