Not exact matches
While increasing the pressure of the hydrogen
gas accelerated the hydrogenation process, the research
found that the process will work with high - capacity industrial milling
operations with minimal modifications.
While this study did catalogue the different chemicals
found in air emissions from
gas drilling
operations, it did not address exposure levels and their potential effects.
But Rick Kessy,
operations manager for Fortuna Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Talisman Energy and the largest
gas producer in New York, says his company has assessed worker exposure at two of the company's well sites in Pennsylvania, where it
found no serious risk.
More specifically, do your regional
findings give a clue as to how much of what you see from energy sector is from drilling as opposed to other oil and
gas operations?
Updates below Last year, after opponents of hydraulic fracturing made much of an unpublished paper by a doctoral candidate in economics who reported
finding health impacts in infants from nearby
gas drilling operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over Gas Impacts.&raq
gas drilling
operations, I wrote a piece titled «When Publicity Precedes Peer Review in the Fight Over
Gas Impacts.&raq
Gas Impacts.»
Finding ways to capture carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels in power plants and other industrial
operations — better and more affordable ways — could be a significant help in the bid to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions.
That same year, the researchers
found 7 million tons (7.2 teragrams) of methane came from oil and
gas operations.
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal today reported on a new study by the University of Texas that
found leakage rates of methane from natural
gas fracking
operations are lower than previously stated by US EPA.
The new paper, published last week in the journal Climatic Change, builds on earlier research
finding that nearly two - thirds of historical greenhouse
gas emissions came from the products and
operations of just 90 companies — mostly fossil fuel producers, plus a few cement companies.
«The Legislature further
finds and declares that the state government requires at all times a complete and thorough understanding of the
operation of energy markets including... natural
gas...» Section 25300 (c)
Researchers
found «no immediate health concerns from air quality» and concluded that «oil and
gas operations do not cause harmful excess air emissions.»
The second study's
findings are even more alarming: Oil and
gas operations in North Dakota and eastern Texas leaked roughly 10 percent of the natural
gas they produced between 2006 and 2011, spewing methane — a potent greenhouse
gas — into the atmosphere.
Heede
found that just 90 entities were collectively responsible for almost 2/3 of global greenhouse
gas emissions in the atmosphere, and he calculated the share of individual companies (Chevron's products and its direct
operations have resulted in approximately 3.34 % of the human caused greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere today).