Sentences with phrase «fracturing technology»

Their firms are acquiring overseas assets to gain horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technology in addition to the exploration partnerships mentioned above.

«In the past decade we saw just such a disruptive step - change technology innovation in fracturing technology in shale oil.

Crawley, the former Program Manager at the federal Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA, a precursor to the Department of Energy), oversaw a significant portion of the federal research that went into the development of shale gas fracturing technologies.

FOLLOWING rock - breaking technology trials in South Africa, Brandrill Limited has entered into partnership with Impala Platinum Holdings Limited to develop a continuous mining system using penetrating cone fracture technology.

Collart said the department is trying to «make a determination if this relatively unique fracturing technology that has not heretofore been subject to a full environmental analysis has the potential to cause significant adverse environmental impacts.»

He retired in 1975 and is now a close friend of Stanley Meyer, the US inventor of «hydrogen fracturing technology».

The interest in natural gas combustion as a potential solution to climate change has been gaining because US ghg emissions have fallen somewhat as natural gas from hydraulic fracturing technologies has been rapidly replacing coal in electricity sector generation.

According to recent studies by researchers at Stanford, shale oil production using fracturing technologies are quite efficient; Bakken oil has EROI ratios above 25 to 1 but, like conventional oil, will be subject to declines as the best wells are depleted and lower - quality resource is encountered.

Now, it is suddenly plentiful and relatively cheap in the U.S. due to hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, a process that has unlocked natural gas from massive shale formations, driving prices down.

Industry executives and state officials remembered McClendon as a «visionary» who ushered in a new era of U.S. energy abundance by pursuing the hydraulic fracturing technology that would unlock decades» worth of domestic natural gas and oil resources.

Gas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposits.

Tim Harper and Paul Martins improved the drilling technique, called «hydraulic fracturing technology».

«Recent U.S. production growth has centered largely in a few key regions and has been driven by advances in the application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies.»

The «comprehensive long - term energy policies and strategies» slogan also ignores where the real progress of recent years has been made: in the private sector, especially the petroleum industry, where revolutionary horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies have unlocked centuries of oil and natural gas worldwide.

«Safe, innovative hydraulic fracturing technologies have freed the United States from years of fear mongering that America's energy future was bleak.

Notably, the United States has reduced carbon emissions 14 percent since 2005, with about two - thirds of those reductions attributable to increased natural gas use made possible by hydraulic fracturing technology.

It looks as if the study - conducted by a team led by Robert Howarth, and to be published in May's Climatic Change Letters - has put shale - gas, extracted using controversial hydraulic fracturing technology, at the top of the climate impact bad - boy league.

Directional drilling and hydraulic - fracturing technologies are allowing expanded natural - gas extraction from organic - rich shales in the United States and elsewhere (2, 3).

Directional drilling and hydraulic - fracturing technologies are dramatically increasing natural - gas extraction.

The Federal Court of Canada has ruled against a Calgary - based oil and gas services company ensuring there is no monopoly on a fracturing technology used in horizontal drilling and well completion systems in the sector.

Torys represented Resource Well Completion in successfully resisting a patent infringement action concerning certain patents relating to fracturing technology