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.
Not exact matches
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.
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.
Oil production is soaring from shale formations
in Texas and North Dakota using hydraulic
fracturing and directional drilling
technology.
When the
technology of print emerged
in medieval Europe an upheaval occurred that eventually
fractured the local and regional loyalties of feudal society.
NOCSAE's helmet standards have eliminated skull
fractures in football by requiring the advancement of new helmet
technology.
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.
Advances
in running shoe
technology in the last 40 years have not reduced injuries, but racing «barefoot»
in shoes with minimal cushioning could help runners change their strides and landing patterns to prevent repetitive heel pain and stress
fractures.
COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic
fracturing («fracking»)
technology burns at a well
in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
In short, it appears that our
technology has created ways of accelerating change (genetic engineering, for instance) and new habitats (like the modern city), essentially
fracturing our biology and transforming our future as a species.
Recent advances
in gas production
technology based on horizontal drilling and hydraulic
fracturing — also known as fracking — have led to bountiful, low - cost natural gas.
He retired
in 1975 and is now a close friend of Stanley Meyer, the US inventor of «hydrogen
fracturing technology».
Park Systems, world - leader
in atomic force microscopy (AFM) today announced a webinar to provide next generation
technology to improve oil and gas production
in both traditional drilling and hydraulic
fracturing for oil & gas producers and equipment manufacturers as they continue to pursue the latest developments
in production efficiencies.
Our veterinarians and staff offer the latest
in technology and techniques: • Dental cleaning (scaling) and polishing • Routine tooth extractions • Surgical tooth extractions • Deciduous «baby teeth» extractions • Orinasal fistula repair • Gingival surgery using radiosurgery or laser surgery • Full mouth extractions • Oral surgery •
Fracture repair of the jaw • Mandibulectomy
This
technology is used to aid
in the treatment of chronic non-healing wounds, inflammatory conditions (such as feather picking), joint pain, post-surgical pain, muscle strains and tears, tendon and ligament injuries, arthritis, and bone
fractures.
But what could constitute heroism
in today's
fractured, fragmented,
technology - dominated global world threatened with extinction because of human greed, brutality and ignorance?
The video, frantic
in pace, with rapidly changing camera angles, is amusing but nothing to write home about, and dangerously plays into the platitude that such frenetic camerawork somehow sheds light upon our goldfishlike attention spans, supposedly
fractured by the new omnipresence of advanced
technology.
His study attributes the expected growth
in oil output largely to a combination of high oil prices and new
technologies such as hydraulic
fracturing that are opening up vast new areas and allowing extraction of «unconventional» oil such as tight oil, oil shale, tar sands and ultra-heavy oil.
As head of the Department of Environmental Conservation's Division of Mineral Resources, Bradley J. Field is a prominent figure
in an agency that has promoted hydraulic
fracturing as a risk - free and impeccably regulated
technology with a proven track record
in New York.
This
technology holds great potential to lower the «dread to risk ratio» surrounding the hydraulic
fracturing process,
in which water with traces of other substances is injected into a well at high pressure to
fracture deep shale layers holding the gas.
Now, fairness dictates I point out that George Mitchell didn't invent hydraulic
fracturing or directional drilling — the two
technologies that, when combined, have unleashed the surge
in oil and natural gas production the United States has experienced over the last half decade.
Hydraulic
fracturing has really taken off
in the last decade thanks to horizontal drilling
technology.
I start (and started) from the premise that the dramatic decline
in crude oil prices that took place from August, 2014 ($ 96 / barrel), to March, 2015 ($ 44 / barrel), was due — on the one hand — to decreased demand, a function of slow economic growth
in Asia, Europe, and elsewhere, endogenous, price - driven technological change leading to greater fuel efficiency, and policy - driven technological change that also has been leading to greater fuel efficiency, such as more stringent Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards
in the United States; and — on the other hand — was due to increased supply, partly a function of the growth of unconventional (tight) U.S. oil production (a product of the combination of two
technologies — horizontal drilling and hydraulic
fracturing).
«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.
In addition, companies are diligent about capturing water produced during the exploration and production process, and new water
technologies and sophisticated
fracturing chemistries help companies make use of this water more frequently as well.
Advanced hydraulic
fracturing and horizontal drilling are the
technology engines driving America's ongoing energy renaissance — surging oil and natural gas production that ranks first
in the world.
There's much that impresses about hydraulic
fracturing if you see it up close, which I did during a recent tour of Anadarko Petroleum natural gas operations near Williamsport, Pa.: the
technology, the company's highly skilled workers, the game - changing resource opportunities
in the Marcellus Shale and more.
Since the expansion of hydraulic
fracturing and horizontal drilling
technologies broke the trend of high energy prices
in 2014, Americans have prospered — not only from lower... Read More
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.
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 21st century energy revolution — brought about by advances
in the decades - old
technology of hydraulic
fracturing and innovations
in horizontal drilling — has positively touched the lives of all Americans.
In this process, water is pumped at high pressures to fracture underground hot rock reservoirs similar to technology used in natural gas hydraulic fracturin
In this process, water is pumped at high pressures to
fracture underground hot rock reservoirs similar to
technology used
in natural gas hydraulic fracturin
in natural gas hydraulic
fracturing.
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.
Denver Business Journal: The boom
in oil and natural gas production
in North America, largely due to the new
technologies of horizontal drilling and hydraulic
fracturing, is changing the balance of power across the world, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice told attendees at the Vail Global Energy Forum.
Kevin Bullis, MIT
Technology Review's senior editor for energy, has a piece noting that the most significant advances
in the energy field the past year resulted from surging natural gas and oil production from shale via hydraulic
fracturing — an impact Bullis says is unlikely to be unsurpassed by other energy sectors
in the near future:
China, the world's top energy user, is believed to hold the world's largest reserves of shale gas, which is trapped
in rocks and requires a
technology called hydraulic
fracturing, or fracking, to unleash.
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.
The first case, Oil States Energy Services, LLC v. Greene's Energy Group, LLC, involved a patent owned by Oil States and relating to
technology for protecting wellhead equipment used
in hydraulic
fracturing.
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
«Right now, you're seeing significant money and time being spent on exploration of these
technologies in a
fractured way that lacks the strategic, coordinated vision so critical to timely success.