Sentences with phrase «from coal beds»

Encana had carried out shallow drilling to extract methane gas from coal beds using a technique known as hydraulic fracturing, which Ernst believes has led to the contamination of her water supply.

In the Four Corners region, which is the area where New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah meet, the methane emissions are caused mainly by the production and transport of natural gas from coal beds, said the NASA team.

Not exact matches

From time to time the large bed of coals was stirred, and occasionally they performed the difficult feat of turning over the entire ox, so that each side might be cooked at an equal rate of progress.

At the same time, however, production from all other sources — such as conventional gas fields on land and offshore as well as so - called tight gas and coal - bed methane — has been declining at a rate of about 5 percent per year.

«Produced» water from coal - bed methane extraction releases underground water with high mineral content into watersheds.

Their discovery could aid secure fracking — in which rocks below ground are split with high - pressure fluids — or extraction of methane gas from deep coal beds.

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre sampled deep methane gas from an exploratory coal bed methane field in central Scotland and disused coal mines in central England.

The BP / Davy fixed - bed FT process produces diesel, jet fuel (JP8) and naphtha from natural gas, biomass - or coal - derived syngas.

From U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1625â $ «C, 2001: «Sufficient high - quality, thick, bituminous resources remain in [major Appalachian Basin] coal beds and coal zones to last for the next one to two decades at current production.

This peer - reviewed study by a pair of researchers at Rice University in Houston shows that while fracking - produced water shouldn't be allowed near drinking water, it's less toxic than similar waste from coal - bed methane mining.

Coal bed methane is produced from many wells specifically drilled for that purpose in the area, with about 12 billion cubic feet produced in 2012 in Greene and Washington counties.

Re: # 3, a big difference between horizontal drilling to exploit coal - bed methane production (which is what I think you mean) and EGS is that in CBM, the valuable item is the gas, not the water, which comes both from surface sources, and from the natural gas / coal resource.

Genome Alberta announced C$ 25.2 million (US$ 22.2 million) in public / private funding over four years for two new genomic research projects, one targeted at enhanced recovery of fossil hydrocarbon resources from oil sands and coal beds through biological processes, the other focused on discovering plant genes that can be sequenced and used... Read more →

China's post-2020 national climate action plan, known as an INDC, indicates commitment to addressing both of these emission sources, setting goals for increased coal bed methane production and controlling emissions from rice fields.

The following lava streams entered carbonate rocks and coal beds, from which they in turn released enormous amounts of CO2, perhaps equivalent to 3 trillion tonnes of pure carbon, or some 11 gigatonnes of CO2, a 2010 Nature Geoscience study estimates, quite suddenly switching the world from cooling to heating.

Moreover, a constant rain of debris in the form of particulate matter from burning forests and nitrogen oxides from the smoldering coal beds fertilized the ocean surface.

We could try feeding these with as much coal seam bed methane as possible, and likewise use ADs to extract methane from sewage treatment and putrescible waste.

10 or 15 years ago, the city of Tacoma was running a small power plant that had been converted to burn a mixture of pulverized coal, hog fuel (lumber waste that was too low quality to make paper from) and RDF (refuse derived fuel, basically the lightweight plastic and paper shreds from garbage that would rise up and over in an air separator) in a fluidized bed combustor.

The project was granted an air permit from the state of Kentucky to build a 500 - megawatt circulating fluidized bed coal plant, but it has been on hold since 2003.

Methane recovery - Methane emissions, e.g., from oil or gas wells, coal beds, peat bogs, gas transmission pipelines, landfills, or anaerobic digesters, are captured and used as a fuel or for some other economic purpose (e.g., chemical feedstock).

Backup coal - fired power from Victoria, on demand, when the wind stopped blowing or it was night time and the SA solar panels went to bed.

The ads remind us (accurately) that half the electricity in America comes from coal, then shows images of little girls getting tucked into bed at night or Little Leaguers playing ball under the lights.

The BP / Davy fixed - bed FT process produces diesel, jet fuel (JP8) and naphtha from natural gas, biomass - or coal - derived syngas.

Current research on alternative means for combustion (e.g., fluidized bed combustion, magnetohydrodynamics, and low nitrogen dioxide burners) is expected to provide efficient and environmentally attractive methods for extracting energy from coal.

Wood will burn on a bed of ash, but coals need air entering from beneath, so a multifuel stove has a grate that adjusts to suit the fuel.