Sentences with phrase «fracturing operations»

March 17, 2011: Nathalie Normandeau, Quebec's natural resources minister, announced Wednesday that the province would no longer authorize hydraulic fracturing operations in the province in the hunt for oil and gas.
The Department of the Interior has proposed requiring the disclosure of chemicals used during hydraulic - fracturing operations on public lands, but much of the current oil and gas development is taking place on private land.
«Any successful hydraulic fracturing operation induces microseismicity because the rock is fractured.
Drilling horizontal wells for hydraulic fracturing operations results in a large amount of gooey solid waste, or drill cuttings.
As hydraulic fracturing operations expand in Canada and in some parts of the United States, researchers at the 2017 Seismological Society of America's (SSA) Annual Meeting are taking a closer look at ways to minimize hazards from the earthquakes triggered by those operations.
The EPA study is just one of many during the course of the technology's 65 - year history to affirm the effectiveness of industry standards and strong state regulations in keeping hydraulic fracturing operations safe for the environment.
According to the research, to avoid unwanted seismic events and to improve the safety of hydraulic fracturing operations, a series of numerical models should be conducted to design a carefully implemented hydraulic stimulation scheme.
And others may be one - time opportunities in the area, such as a hydraulic fracturing operation in nearby West Virginia.
Two years ago, the Alberta resident sued EnCana Corp., alleging that the energy giant's hydraulic fracturing operations had severely contaminated an aquifer that feeds the well she used on her ranch, located between Calgary and Drumheller.
«Based on actual industry practices, diesel fuel use has already been effectively phased out of hydraulic fracturing operations,» Fuller said.
A new report charges that several oil and gas companies have been illegally using diesel fuel in their hydraulic fracturing operations, and then doctoring records to hide violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
«They can use these data every day in deciding the best direction to drill and how to carry out optimal hydraulic fracturing operations
New findings published by the high impact journal Science show that the rate in which earthquakes are triggered or induced by fracking depends on the volume of the hydraulic fracturing operations.
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.
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.
Booming energy production from U.S. hydraulic fracturing operations has hurt Canadian oil and gas projects, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing operations, by the oil and gas industries can emit significant amounts of methane.
CFACT energy advisor Marita Noon outlines research being done in Texas on recycling produced water for reuse in hydraulic fracturing operations — a move that, if as successful in field trials as in initial tests, will provde to be highly beneficial on multiple fronts — including the Oklahoma earthquake front.
Hydraulic fracturing operations in Western Colorado are having «little to no impact» on local wildlife, according to a new report by state regulators.
You can even find psychedelic 3 - D maps of hydraulic fracturing operations and explanations of other fascinating technologies.
Adding to the extensive research, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection contracted its own independent study to evaluate the impacts to the aquifer in Collier County following a hydraulic fracturing operation.

Phrases with «fracturing operations»

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