Sentences with phrase «drilling waste from»

In any case, unless the boreholes were made with a magic drilling rig, where the drilling head generated no heat, and no fluid or drilling mud was used to flush the drill waste from the hole, the temperatures of the exposed bore walls are useless for anything except rough indications of the local geothermal gradient.

Not exact matches

Oklahoma was shaken late Wednesday night by two of the strongest earthquakes to hit the state in recent years, the latest in a series of temblors that many researchers believe are caused by the burial of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the state.

But the contaminants can come from several sources: from the hydraulic fracturing process itself, from the waste water, from the pits where drilling chemicals are stored, or from transporting chemicals and wastewater.

Among the rules that BLM plans to delay until January 2019 are requirements that oil and gas producers submit plans to cut waste, measure and report gas flared from wells and dispose of gas that reaches the surface during drilling and well completion.

However, they were able to seal all three points with Carlos Bacca atoning for wasting some earlier chances with a drilled finish after some impressive play from Giacomo Bonaventura.

They would also like to see waste water from the drilling practice classified as hazardous waste.

The gas did not match the shallower methane that the gas industry says is naturally occurring in water, a signal that the contamination was related to drilling and was less likely to have come from drilling waste spilled above ground.

There are fewer injection wells in the East, however, so much of the waste from drilling in the Marcellus Shale was initially discharged into surface waters.

Agriculture, drilling, and old pollution from waste pits left by the oil and gas industry were all considered possible causes of the contamination.

A Government Accountability Office report says environmental regulators are failing to adequately enforce rules for wells used to dispose of toxic waste from oil and gas drilling

But the changes — heavy traffic, loss of nearby stockyards, smog and dust from drilling, growing waste ponds and pits and the pressures on the schools from temporary worker families — have strengthened their environmental commitment.

During Tuesday's hearing, for instance, Zinke told Sen. John Barrasso he would support the Wyoming Republican's effort to scrap a recently finalized BLM rule to limit methane waste from oil and gas drilling.

Although the review pointed to a possible need for radioactive licensing and disposal for certain materials, and it looked at other states with laws aimed at radioactive waste from drilling, the DEC said there is no precedent for examining how these radioactive materials might affect the environment when brought to the surface at the volumes and scale expected in New York.

Records from disparate corners of the United States show that wells drilled to bury this waste deep beneath the ground have repeatedly leaked, sending dangerous chemicals and waste gurgling to the surface or, on occasion, seeping into shallow aquifers that store a significant portion of the nation's drinking water.

A short distance away from the murky pond, an oil services company had begun pumping millions of gallons of drilling waste into an injection well.

Ultimately, the energy industry won a critical change in the federal government's legal definition of waste: Since 1988, all material resulting from the oil and gas drilling process is considered non-hazardous, regardless of its content or toxicity.

Correa is currently under fire for his decision to open up almost 4,000 square miles of the rainforest in the country to oil drilling, a strange decision from a man whose determined to stop the oil waste brought on by the newspaper industry.

-- making it the punch line of our conversations about the despotic bureaucrats who stole donations from Beninese clinics, the American media spectacle and wasted millions over Bill Clinton's indiscretions, the Ogoni villages burned so Shell Oil could take Nigerian land and drill.

This would include costs like storing and monitoring nuclear waste indefinitely, CO2 emitted to the atmosphere by fossil fuels, nitrous oxides and sulfur oxides from coal degrading the environment through acid rain, maintaining a large military to protect our oil supply lines from the middle east, pollutants entering water supplies from solar panel manufacture, pollutants generated by drilling for gas, etc., etc..

The process, and the impediments to its wider adoption, are described in detail in «Cutting waste in gas drilling — Pioneering propane technology used to free natural gas from rocks, avoiding the pollution of vast amounts of water.»

The problem is that treating oil and gas waste from fracked wells remains particularly tricky because the industry is still allowed to keep secret information about which chemicals drillers use when injecting fluids to crack open shale formations to release oil and gas.

• Support for energy innovation today comes from those concerned about the high (and rising) economic costs, not to mention the foreign entanglements created by America's dependence on oil; the need for greater energy access in poor countries; diseases and deaths caused by air pollution, oil and gas drilling, and coal mining and waste; and the potential for America to manufacture and export new energy technologies at a profit.

Ultimately, the energy industry won a critical change in the federal government's legal definition of waste: Since 1988, all material resulting from the oil and gas drilling process is considered non-hazardous, regardless of its content or toxicity.

A method used to extract natural gas from shale involving horizontal drilling, high pressures, lots of waters, lots of chemicals, resulting in toxic waste.

The dead zone in this otherwise lush mountain country meant one thing to Parrish: Gas drillers had been illegally dumping briny water mixed with chemicals, and the waste had killed everything from the rusty well head all the way downhill into a creek.

The researchers conclude: «The energy discarded in wasted food is more than the energy available from many popular efficiency and energy procurement strategies, such as the annual production of ethanol from grains and annual petroleum available from drilling in the outer continental shelf,» and so minimizing wasted food means minimizing overall energy consumption.

You probably have some ideas about where your clients are coming from already, but trust me, when you drill down on the numbers, you may be surprised at how much time you are wasting on marketing activities that are ineffective.