Sentences with phrase «from shale drillers»

This is coming at a time when shareholders are demanding financial discipline and a better return on investment from shale drillers, another development that Papa believes will hold back production growth.

Emissions from shale drilling, gas processing, gas escapes, and diesel exhaust can all negatively impact air quality.

Not exact matches

OPEC wants to have an open dialogue with upstart U.S. shale drillers and learn from oil market players, after the most painful downturn in six oil price cycles.

As it happens, EnCana itself has invested in a specialized $ 10 - million plant near its Peace River, B.C., operations that treats «sour» water from a saline aquifer for use in its shale drilling.

Further, offshore drilling faces competition from onshore U.S. shale drilling, which can be started up and shut down quickly as oil prices fluctuate.

«U.S. growth of 0.6 million barrels a day in 2017 beat all expectations, even with a moderate price response to the output deal as the shale industry bounced back — profiting from cost cuts, stepped up drilling activity and efficiency measures enforced during the downturn,» the group said.

Exxon Mobil announced last month it would expand its efforts to capture emissions from its subsidary, XTO Energy, which focuses on U.S. shale drilling.

Responding to pressure from environmental opponents and fearful residents, shale - rich Quebec, France, New York and New Jersey have all imposed moratoriums on shale gas drilling pending further study of environmental and health impacts.

Papa, CEO of Centennial Resource Development, is a closely followed figure in the U.S. shale drilling world, where producers rely on advanced techniques to coax oil and gas from tight rock formations.

Unconventional gas development (UGD), characterized by advances in engineering, including horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing, enables extraction of large amounts of fossil fuel from shale deposits at depths that were previously unapproachable [1].

After eliciting an admission from the agent that Mammoth believed it had discovered a substantial shale oil deposit suitable for fracking, Farmer drove a hard bargain for the drilling rights.

His company, Knightsbridge Risk Management, a private security firm in Dallas that serves the oil and gas industry, is getting calls from companies that want to plan ahead in case they shut down drilling operations in North Dakota and the Bakken shale formation.

But the only thing that seems to cause shale drillers to reduce spending — and therefore production — is lower oil prices, since the cash flow from crude is their lifeblood.

The shale driller struggled mightily over the past few years, which ultimately led to a bankruptcy filing that it emerged from last September with an improved balance sheet.

Oil production is soaring from shale formations in Texas and North Dakota using hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling technology.

They are reaching natural limits on lateral length and suffering from a phenomenon called «frac hits» which is dropping production and impacting the economics of infill drilling in shale wells.

In the U.S., shale explorers have focused on the most productive parts of their land, drilled faster and better wells there and negotiated lower prices from oilfield service companies.

How can Governor Cuomo allow shale gas drilling in New York when he can see how many citizens and communities are getting sick, hurt and traumatized from the practice in other states?

A new environmental review from New York State details some of the issues surrounding drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus shale

From Anhui to Xinjiang Chinese companies have begun to drill into the earth for shale gas.

Big play China has a vast resource of natural gas trapped in shale — Beijing calculates that hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling could recover 25 trillion cubic meters of shale gas from eight basins.

Shale Network for the past six years has fostered a dialogue about shale drilling between concerned citizens, watershed groups, government regulators and personnel from large energy companies by focusing on publicly available water quality data.

In the 1990s, new drilling technology developed in Texas made recovering gas from shale far more efficient.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

To determine emissions rates at natural gas fields in Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale gas fields, the researchers used emissions data gathered from an airplane that flew over natural gas wells in southwest Pennsylvania in June 2012, some of which were in the process of being drilled.

I'm cross-linking because these posts relate nicely to examinations here of the «dread to risk ratio» in arenas ranging from shale gas drilling (a k a fracking) to nuclear power, toxic chemicals to climate.

New York State appears to be further slowing its effort to produce rules governing fracking, shorthand for the suite of drilling methods used to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits.

The areas where water samples drawn from near - surface layers had traces of the natural contaminants from the deep shale layers showed no relationship to past or current gas drilling activity, the researchers reported.

At the premiere of Fox's antifracking sequel on Sunday, a batch of ticket holders — mostly landowners from the Marcellus shale region who support gas drilling, but including McAleer — was blocked from entering the theater (see the Artsbeat blog post for Tribeca's dubious explanation).

Original post In 2011, a Cornell research team led by the environmental scientist Robert Howarth published «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» a widely discussed paper positing that gas escaping from drilling operations using hydraulic fracturing, widely known as fracking, made natural gas a bigger climate threat than the most infamous fossil fuel, coal.

The study should ease * concerns that reports of briny water mixing with drinking water have anything to do with gas drilling, including the process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, used to release gas from deep shale layers.

Public health experts who work on the «shale fields» among impacted citizens have been ringing alarm bells: «I don't know if I have ever seen a problem as widespread as this with as little information collected about it, and as relaxed an attitude in terms of the sense of urgency, in the sense of responsibility on the part of the state and federal governments, and for that matter, the drilling industry,» cautioned a seasoned public health toxicologist David Brown from Southwest Environmental Health Project in my interview for Gas Rush Stories.

They said it was «very likely» that several thousand weak to moderate earthquakes in recent years were triggered by deep - earth injection of water extracted from the ground as thousands of wells have been drilled into shale oil and gas deposits.

But the four prongs of the speech were not about using less fuel, but boosting supplies: drilling offshore, extracting oil from shale, drilling on the coast of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and adding refineries.

Industry innovators took a process used for more than 60 years, modernized it and married it with it with advanced horizontal drilling to safely unleash previously inaccessible oil and natural gas reserves from shale and other tight - rock formations.

Such leaks from coal mines and gas drilling sites are on the rise as a result of the shale gas boom in the US.

From the article: There is a lot of talk these days of the U.S. becoming energy independent because of the new horizontal drilling and fracking techniques, which have opened up the vast shale plays across the country.

And from what is now known about all the major US plays (excepting the Moneterey shale, where because of folding and faulting no one has yet figured out how to successfully use the technology), EIA has simply figured out how many more wells could be drilled before all the known pay is fully drilled.

Developing energy from shale (and other tight - rock formations) using hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling takes four to eight weeks — from preparing the site for development to production itself — after which the well can be in production up to 40 years.10 A well can be a mile or more deep and thousands of feet below groundwater zones vertically, before gradually turning horizontal.

Using an airplane to detect greenhouse gas emissions from freshly drilled shale gas wells in Pennsylvania's Marcellus basin, Cornell and Purdue scientists have found that leaked methane is a tougher problem — between a hundred - and a thousandfold — than previously thought, according to a study published April 14 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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.

The US shale boom is drawing increasing attention from federal agencies worried about the potential hazards posed by drilling.

The problem is that treating oil and gas waste from fracked wells remains particularly tricky because the industry is still allowed to keep secret information about which chemicals drillers use when injecting fluids to crack open shale formations to release oil and gas.

The agency began an investigation in 2010 after receiving complaints from residents about drinking water near Chesapeake shale gas drilling sites.

The quote from Mitt Romney's (allegedly «ghostwritten») book points to the conclusion that the USA should do more oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill») including shale deposits, to get more «energy independent» (combined, of course, with supporting basic research for new energy technologies).

The production of commercial quantities of gas from this shale requires large volumes of water to drill and hydraulically fracture the rock.

From the article:...... Halliburton, the world's No. 2 oilfield services provider, reported a better - than - expected quarterly profit, helped by buoyant shale drilling activity in North America.

A fracture caused by the drilling process would have to extend through the several thousand feet of rock that separate deep shale gas deposits from freshwater aquifers.

The latest example of how wrong the Malthusian - influenced doubters have been is provided by fracking, horizontal drilling, and associated technology applied particularly to extracting oil and natural gas from shale formations.

The average U.S. household saw its disposable income rise $ 1,337 in 2015 because of lower utility bills and other energy - related cost savings, thanks to natural gas produced from shale with hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.