Sentences with phrase «gas hydrofracturing»
Natural gas hydrofracturing took a public relations hit this month, when a British energy company admitted that its fracking operation in England was the direct cause of several small earthquakes earlier this year.
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Indeed, a shortage of accessible natural gas threatens to cause more manufacturing losses in the region, where the state has banned shale gas production via high - pressure hydraulic hydrofracturing.
Several environmental organizations, boosted by the popular movie «Gasland,» have claimed that using hydrofracturing can endanger public water supplies, in part because of potentially toxic chemicals that are sometimes used to help extract the gas.
«By analyzing the basic physics underlying gas recovery from hydrofractured wells, we calculated a single curve that should describe how much gas comes out over time, and we showed that production from thousands of wells follows this curve,» Marder said.
The time at which gas pressure drops below its initial value everywhere in the rock between hydrofractures is called its interference time.
The statistical truth is that hydrofractured wells are marginally productive sources of natural gas and oil.
Diverting more gas from the domestic energy market would exert even more upward pressure on fuel gas prices, and with gas prices on the rise you're going to start setting more pushback from consumers and less support for fracking (short for hydrofracturing), the shale drilling method that has been causing so many problems in local communities.
Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil was investing its massive $ 45 billion in earnings in maximizing extraction and processing of oil and gas, including the controversial use of hydrofracturing (fracking) to extract fuel from tar sands and the expansion of offshore oil drilling.