Sentences with phrase «drilling technique»

Space agency used more gentle drilling technique to gather samples.

For almost 30 years the federal government aggressively invested in the research and development of breakthrough drilling techniques and partnered with industry to demonstrate new technologies.

And, the lateral drilling technique is relatively new, which has a lot to do with this.

The state Appellate Division's Third Department has upheld a lower court ruling denying an East Rochester man's request that the state annul the de facto ban on the natural gas drilling technique known as hydrofracking

That just got harder,» said William Cooke of Citizens Campaign for the Environment, which wants solar energy incentives and an extended moratorium on the natural gas drilling technique known as hydrofracking.

There's the economic reality: Coal plants have shuttered in recent years as utilities favor cheaper, natural gas extracted from shale - rich places such as Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia using the controversial drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing.

In the mid-eleventh century, while King Harold was unsuccessfully defending England from the Normans, the salt producers of Sichuan were developing percussion drilling, the most advanced drilling technique in the world for the next seven or eight centuries.

ALBANY — State Sen. Greg Ball, a Republican known for his maverick sensibility, enhanced that reputation further with his introduction Wednesday of a proposed moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas drilling technique better known as hydrofracking that's under review by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

But even without the change, NPS officials are hopeful that direct impact on federal park property can be avoided with the use of horizontal drilling techniques from offsite.

The special perforation pattern of the grilles is created using a very sophisticated drilling technique.

The letter says Moscow primarily targets innovative drilling techniques such as hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, that make it possible to extract natural gas deposits from shale formations.

However, they note that some oil and gas fields do not appear to have similarly high methane emissions, suggesting that such leaks could be stemmed by improved drilling techniques and well designs.

According to the Department of Energy, the practice proliferated in the United States during the last decade, particularly in places like the Bakken, where potential oil and gas deposits were trapped in widespread shale formations, which made conventional drilling techniques unproductive.

Companies finally started combining horizontal drilling techniques with hydraulic fracturing completion technology, there was no real way to effectively produce it.

Tim Latimer and Jack Norbeck: Fervo Energy is developing cost - effective, clean energy from geothermal resources using novel drilling techniques based on research of mixed - mechanism stimulation.

«You have people that move in, you train them and then someone else offers them a job: there is constant raiding going on,» says Jeff Sparks, chief operating officer of family - owned Discovery Oil in Midland, who has only recently shifted to the more efficient and capital - intensive drilling techniques that have pushed per - barrel extraction costs down so steeply.

French energy giant Total is in talks with the largest privately held Russian energy company Lukoil to develop gas and oil fields using the latest drilling techniques.

Even with new demand, the quantity of U.S. gas resources is so vast thanks to unconventional drilling techniques that average Henry Hub prices should not rise dramatically from the $ 4 to $ 5 range, though they could fluctuate.

Now, the run back on the pick - six and the catch itself were pretty damn athletic, but my point is he is just a really good football player who has obviously drilled his technique work enough that it is all second nature to him.

NEW YORK Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) claimed an ignoble distinction this month: He became the first governor of a state with large deposits of natural gas to ban «fracking,» or hydraulic fracturing, the controversial but highly productive drilling technique that has reshaped the energy business in the United States.

Lupardo has tactfully dealt with the thorny issue of hydrofracking in her part of the state and should the governor green - light that drilling technique after November, she could be an asset.

It will go down vertically for the first 1.1 miles, then bend eastward toward the fault at a 50 degree angle for another 1.8 miles, using the directional drilling techniques invented to allow more complete extraction of tough - to - reach oil deposits.

U.S. oil production continues to rise, as new drilling techniques like fracking significantly cut costs.

The domestic coal industry has struggled to compete with cheap natural gas unlocked by new shale drilling techniques.

Much of this increase can be attributed to increased production from the Pennsylvania portion of the Marcellus Shale Basin, as well as the adoption of more efficient drilling techniques and the continued targeting of liquids - rich shale gas formations.

Personal injury attorney Neal Davis is determined to hold companies responsible for injuries and damages caused by unsafe drilling techniques.

Expertise in drilling techniques gained while contributing to the realization of several hydro wells.

In the NY1 / YNN debate, Long enthusiastically supported the controversial drilling technique known as hydrofracking.

The group Environment Massachusetts is urging Massachusetts lawmakers to enact a ban on fracking even though geologists and the petroleum industry insist the chances are remote the controversial gas drilling technique — where water and chemicals are used to break rock — would ever be used in the Bay State.

Zucker, who joined the DOH in September 2013, has taken over a portfolio that includes medical marijuana as well as the continuation of the Health Department's review of the health impacts chapter of the Department of Environmental Conservation's regulatory blueprint for the natural gas drilling technique known as hydrofracking.

Sophisticated drilling techniques — including the controversial method of hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking» — have unlocked enormous energy reserves previously inaccessible in shale formations in North Dakota and elsewhere, making U.S. energy independence a real possibility.

Drilling techniques such as fracking have sparked a boom in gas production, driving down prices and prompting utilities to switch from coal.

Even more emissions are produced by fracking, which requires significantly more energy than conventional drilling techniques.

Mitchell Energy engineers encountered numerous obstacles to successful shale plays before partnering with federal agencies, which bore some of the costs for novel horizontal drilling techniques and hand - delivered crucial three - dimensional mapping technologies developed at Sandia National Laboratories.

I say that because you can tell this is a guy who has drilled technique in everything he has done for football for a long, long time.

WA Labor plans to ban fracking in the South West, but will not ban the drilling technique in other areas such as the Kimberley and the Mid West where it has been undertaken.

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.

The stark drop in natural gas prices from an all - time high of more than $ 15 per 1,000 cubic feet in 2005 to near $ 4 today results from a range of factors including the global economic downturn, competitive coal prices, unusually warm winters, the improvement of hydraulic fracturing («fracking») drilling techniques, and the production of natural gas as a byproduct when drillers frack for petroleum.

The Treasure Karoo Action Group, named after the semi-desert area of South Africa that has attracted petroleum exploration companies, started in Johannesburg today the latest phase of a campaign to block the drilling technique.

Shortly after the climate moves came into effect, a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing unearthed new deposits of natural gas in British Columbia.

On the controversial question of fracking, the largest plurality ever in a Siena poll has said «no» to the natural gas drilling technique, with 45 percent opposed and 37 percent in favor.

Actor and anti-fracking activist Mark Ruffalo wants the president to follow Cuomo's «courageous» lead and ban the controversial drilling technique.

Cuomo has acknowledged that fracking — a deep gas - drilling technique that uses a mixture of chemicals and water to fracture rocks and capture the escaped gas — would boost jobs.

Drilling regulations were drafted earlier in 2012, but no action was taken after nearly 200,000 opponents of the drilling technique demanded it not proceed.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned hydrofracking in 2014, but that hasn't brought an end to controversies over the natural - gas drilling technique.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration will prohibit hydrofracking in New York state, citing unresolved health issues and dubious economic benefits of the widely used gas - drilling technique.