Sentences with phrase «fractured natural gas wells»

The proposed rules seem to overlook the fact that since 2005 methane emissions from hydraulically fractured natural gas wells have fallen 79 percent, according to EPA, at the same time natural gas production has increased.

Since 2005, methane emissions from hydraulically fractured natural gas wells have plummeted 79 percent — with technology and innovation allowing industry to capture more of a product that can be delivered to consumers.

Since 2005, emissions from field production of natural gas have dropped 38 percent, and emissions from hydraulically fractured natural gas wells have plunged 79 percent.

According to [Steve] Hamburg, UT's low well emissions finding indicates an early phase - in of EPA's New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), which requires all new fractured natural gas wells to either burn - off or use «green completions» (an emissions control method that routes excess gas to sales), is working.

Fracturing a natural gas well requires millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to release gas from the shale formation thousands of feet below the earth's surface.

Not exact matches

VICTORIA — B.C.'s New Democrats are calling for new and stronger actions from the B.C. Liberals to ensure long - term sustainability and environmental quality, greater public accountability, and best practices in the natural gas industry as the practice of hydraulic fracturing...

The spilling of several thousand gallons of chemicals at a natural gas well in northern Pennsylvania shows a ban on hydraulic fracturing is necessary, Sen. Tony Avella, D - Queens, said this afternoon.

The Yale study of people in southwestern Pennsylvania found a greater prevalence of health symptoms reported among residents living close to natural gas wells, including those drilled via hydraulic fracturing.

But it wasn't so long ago that nobody had heard about the people who could set their tapwater on fire because their wells had been contaminated with natural gas due to hydraulic fracturing.

Two Syracuse University geology professors - along with a graduate assistant or two - are hurrying to collect water samples from drinking wells in the Southern Tier before - and if - the natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing is approved in New York.

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.

Moreover, if natural gas prices remain low due to higher yields associated with the hydraulic fracturing of wells, other forms of electricity — including renewables — will have a hard time winning favor with utilities and state public utilities commissions that govern the growth of the electricity system.

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing

For the hydraulic fracturing system, the study estimated the toxicity of the fracturing fluid chemicals used to crack rock and release natural gas, as well as the wastewater associated with shale - gas extraction.

COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») technology burns at a well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

In hydraulic fracturing, a pressurized liquid is injected into a wellbore — the actual hole that forms the well — to fracture deep rock formations to release the flow of natural gas and petroleum.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

The illustration displayed here explains the conventional, vertical well method of extracting natural gas, and the unconventional, more recent method of extracting natural gas in shale via horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

The study, conducted by researchers at Purdue and Cornell universities and other institutions, is one of numerous studies conducted over the past several years that have discovered methane leaking from oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and hydraulic fracturing operations.

At that time, there were «approximately 26,000 hydraulically fractured wells» in the United States, which accounted for «less than 7 %» of all U.S. marketed natural gas.11 By 2011, fracking had become the primary method for oil and natural gas development in the United States.

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration has posted a short update on trends in natural gas production in the United States that's worth noting simply because it illustrates the profound nature of the energy transitions that are being propelled by the exploitation of shale deposits using hydraulic fracturing, known best as fracking, along with horizontal drilling.

In this fascinating blog, the Philadelphia - based artist Jennie Shanker is chronicling her efforts to create ceramics using clay from the Marcellus Shale region — best known as a big new source for natural gas through the much — debated method called fracking, or hydraulic fracturing (recently explored by Times columnist David Brooks).

Based on the most recent data from states, EIA estimates that natural gas production from hydraulically fractured wells now makes up about two - thirds of total U.S. marketed gas production.

There is evidence [pdf] from the Marcellus Shale formation that natural gas wells were contaminating local groundwater resources, but the study's authors were unable to determine whether the leakage was due to unplanned fractures or leaky well - casings.

Indeed, the report challenges a common belief that America's dramatic natural gas boom — made possible by the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, of shale gas wells — is the main factor in the decline of energy - related emissions.

One of the best examples is hydraulic fracturing, the most important reason the United States leads the world in oil and natural gas production.

The oil and gas industry uses hydraulic fracturing to enhance subsurface fracture systems to allow oil or natural gas to move more freely from the rock pores to production wells that bring the oil or gas to the surface.»

Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, stimulates gas production by injecting wells with high volumes of chemical - laced water in order to free - up pockets of natural gas below.

Modern hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling allows multiple wells to be drilled from one spot, reducing the size of the drilling area above ground by as much as 90 percent.4 Fracking is the key to unlocking vast U.S. shale resources, freeing up oil and natural gas that previously was inaccessible while protecting groundwater supplies and the environment.

According to the U.S. Energy Department, up to 95 percent 1 of new wells drilled today are hydraulically fractured, accounting for two - thirds 2 of total U.S. marketed natural gas production and about half 3 of U.S. crude oil production.

Down 79 percent from hydraulically fractured wells since 2005; down 38 percent from natural gas production overall from 2005 to 2013; and emissions down — while natural gas production soared...

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Today, according to EIA, two - thirds of America's natural gas comes from a hydraulically fractured well.

Over the past several years, vast caches of natural gas trapped in deeply buried rock have been made accessible by advances in two key technologies: horizontal drilling, which allows vertical wells to turn and snake more than a mile sideways through the earth, and hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

The process of extracting natural gas from shale deposits includes hydraulic fracturing, during which fluids and solids are pumped into the well.

The UT researchers took measurements at 190 natural gas production sites — and nearly 500 wells — in every region of the United States where hydraulic fracturing is occurring.

U.S. Department of Energy statistics show «up to 95 percent of new wells drilled today are hydraulically fractured, accounting for more than 43 percent of total U.S. oil production and 67 percent of natural gas production.»

While there is a temporary boom in natural gas thanks to hydraulic fracturing or fracing, (now commonly called fracking), gas is also replacing coal in power plants and may well replace gasoline in cars.

I claim no particular expertise on the issue of whether, on balance, increased extraction of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing is a good thing for the environment and our economy, in relation to our current methods of energy generation or other feasible alternatives.

The boom in natural gas development due to hydraulic fracturing had not yet begun in earnest; there are now hundreds of thousands of hydraulically fractured wells across the United States.

Historically, fracturing in California has been used in vertical wells — not in combination with the horizontal drilling techniques that have wrested oil from North Dakota's Bakken and natural gas from the Barnett shale of Texas or Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania.