Sentences with phrase «gas drilling booms»

Other parts of the country with shale beds («plays» in industry parlance), such as Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas, and Louisiana, have experienced similar gas drilling booms.

I've been meaning to post for awhile on «Gas Rush Stories,» a series of simple, but captivating short films on America's gas drilling boom made by Kirsi Jansa, a Finnish video journalist currently living in Pittsburgh.

I recently attended a Manhattan screening of «Promised Land,» a new feature film written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski that aims to examine America's natural gas drilling boom as a case study in «what happens when real people and real money collide,» as Krasinski explained in publicity materials.

Fracking Bryan R. Walsh of Time Magazine has beautifully summarized energy issues that are simmering today as President Obama takes his education - oriented bus tour to Binghamton, N.Y., at the epicenter of the fight over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the gas drilling boom it has spawned:

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As detailed in the first three installments of Power Shift, an NBC News / CNBC special report, the United States is experiencing an energy boom created by new drilling technologies that have unlocked vast domestic oil and natural gas reserves.

She agrees that this jar, by itself, proves nothing about the environmental impact of «fracking,» the drilling technology largely responsible for America's boom in oil and gas production.

The push by the U.S. energy industry into hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling unleashed an energy boom, making the United States the world's biggest producer of natural gas and just recently the second - largest producer of oil, surpassing Saudi Arabia.

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

A boom in natural gas drilling in the U.S. has caused prices of that commodity to fall precipitously in recent years.

Drilling for natural gas is booming in Pennsylvania — thanks to fracturing shale rock with a water and chemical cocktail paired with the ability to drill in any direction.

To comprehend the long - term implications of hydraulic fracturing, you need to visit the region where gas drilling first boomed.

But from my vantage, all I could see was a handful of small boats dragging booms across the water's surface, dwarfed against a massive backdrop of oily water; also visible were one ship burning gases rising from the blowout and two platforms where relief wells were being drilled.

The boom in oil and natural gas drilling is deepening the uncertainties, geologists acknowledge.

March 12, 2012 • New drilling technologies and rising fuel prices have generated a boom in U.S. oil and gas drilling.

On the other hand, the boom in oil & gas drillings has grown Timken's tubular business which now accounts for 20 % of sales.

Opponents of expanded gas drilling have coined the term «frackademia» for university research on the potential impacts of the boom in shale gas drilling that involves industry money or experts with industry ties.

The low price for gas now, after the boom years since 2007 or so in other states (which produced the problems and anger distilled into the film «Gasland «-RRB-, will insure that any drilling effort plays out at a pace that will be manageable.

I hope you'll read «Applying Creativity to a Byproduct of Oil Drilling in North Dakota,» a valuable Clifford Krauss feature on baby steps taken by the oil and gas industry to stanch the wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas from the country's booming Bakken oil fields in North Dakota.

Boria reported his agency received more than 140 complaints related to water pollution or gas migration associated with a boom in nearby conventional drilling operations (prior to shale gas development).

A Green Blog post by Jon Hurdle describes what looks like a helpful new academic initiative to assess potential health impacts of the country's gas - drilling boom:

8:21 p.m. Updated The producers of Bloggingheads.TV invited me to join Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica in a discussion of the drilling boom aimed at the vast deposits of natural gas identified in deep shale layers and other deposits around North America and, increasingly, the world.

«Homeowners and Gas Drilling Leases: Boom or Bust?»

Thanks to fracking, horizontal drilling, and the shale gas boom, there is more natural gas at a lower price than there has been in decades.

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

The drilling technology has helped usher in a huge gas boom but has also triggered much grassroots opposition due to a new set of environmental concerns.

The ability to drill horizontal oil and gas wells and to «frack» shale by injecting pressurized sand and chemicals into the rock has enabled a huge boom in natural - gas production over the past decade.

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.

Jenkins said the current boom in natural gas is being driven by drilling techniques that were largely the result of federally funded research and technology since the 1970s.

This «fraccing», combined with horizontal drilling, produced the natural gas boom that has transformed North America's energy landscape, increasing natural gas reserves to a level high enough to supply current consumption levels for more than 100 years.

His accession to office coincided (coincidentally) with the widespread adoption of hydraulic fracking to drill for natural gas, resulting in a sudden boom in supplies and a rapid drop in price, to the point where gas began to supplant coal as the fuel of choice for American power plants.

Meanwhile, the ongoing American shale gas boom — powered in part by decades of federal investments in shale drilling technologies — is accelerating the closure of US coal - fired power plants.

As the industry continues to boom, workers continue to make a decent living drilling for oil and gas; however, it is also a very dangerous industry that causes many serious injuries and deaths each year.

While this boom creates low unemployment and increased investment options (including real estate) in many secondary and tertiary markets where drilling is prevalent, natural gas exploration is not without risk and cost, including increased carbon emissions, groundwater contamination, reduced economic activity in alternative energy sectors and the potential for boom - and - bust local economies susceptible to rapid declines in production.

The community of 3,500 residents near San Antonio is experiencing a boom from gas and oil drilling and a subsequent shortage of affordable housing.