Sentences with phrase «gas wells»

It shows potential as an environmentally friendly material for capturing carbon from natural gas wells and industrial plants.

There are a number of older oil and shallow gas wells in the forests.

Most of the atmospheric methane does not, however, come from gas wells.

An interesting thing to note is that the city has more than 100 natural gas wells within its borders.

Great on gas good for commuting and very responsive.

For instance, it claimed that babies born to mothers who lived in areas dense with gas wells were 30 percent more likely to have congenital heart defects.

When the tap water gets cloudy, she drives around to the nine gas well pads within a mile of her farm, writing down which ones have trucks and men working.

As well, it is worth noting that few of the proposed unconventional gas wells will have a productive life span of more than 15 years.

There, researchers plan to inject 100,000 metric tons of CO2 underground from a nearby gas well.

About a third of the human budget comes from fossil fuel exploration, where methane leaks from oil and gas wells during drilling, the researchers said in a press release.

While it works on land, it also focuses on hard - to - drill deep offshore gas wells.

Suppose you mapped the locations of individual gas wells, looked at the distance between the wells and the homes where the mothers of those babies lived during their pregnancies.

To stabilize climate, we need to reach near - zero emissions of CO2 and other long - lived greenhouse gases well within this century.

Gas well productivity trends do not show the same deterioration at present.

They include gas wells, storage tanks, pipelines and processing plants.

The 14 - 2 gas well drew gas from more than 1,200 feet lower than his water well.

Scientists are trying to find leaky gas wells and pipelines.

The concentration of oil and gas wells in flood - prone areas speaks to one more risk of what they see as a dangerous industry.

An interesting thing to note is that the city has more than 100 natural gas wells within its borders.

The new total, again just from gas wells, has the climate - warming power in a year of the carbon dioxide emitted by eight million cars.

This table compares home sale prices and values for homes that had an oil or gas well within 1,000 feet of a home.

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.

In the past four years there have been more than 700 shale gas wells drilled in China, reaching production levels of 0.38 Bcf / d.

The current letter also implies that emissions from shale gas are higher than those for conventional gas, a notion convincingly dispelled by last year's University of Texas study, sponsored by the Environmental Defense Fund, that measured actual — not estimated or modeled — emissions from hundreds of gas wells at dozens of sites in the US.

«Northeast B.C. and it's wildlife have been hammered by coal mines, hydro projects, decades of clearcut logging and thousands of gas well sites,» said Coste.

In September 2009, Range Resources began drilling a natural gas well near the home of Beth Voyles in one of the most heavily drilled counties in southwestern Pennsylvania.

Permitting of new gas wells in the region has been on hold since 2008, pending completion of the review.

Last week saw the publication of an important scientific study on methane emissions at natural gas well sites — a study that should help inform our public policy debates about hydraulic fracturing.

Solid waste from horizontal gas wells contains radioactive material that ends up in landfills.

There are more than 2,000 active oil and gas wells on Pennsylvania game lands — some inherited, some imposed, some built with the wildlife agency's consent.

It could also become home to 1,000 Marcellus gas well pads, with six to ten wells per pad, based on the state forest land that is currently leased, with 400 permit applications already in process, the DCNR says.

Fox asks why we would tolerate a 30 - 50 % failure rate for gas well casings when we expect aircraft to be designed and built to operate without catastrophic failures 99.99999 % of the time.

About 100 miles south of the storied Drake Well, in 2004, Range drilled the first gas well into the shale on leased farmland in Mount Pleasant Township.

Hydrogen sulfide, a lethal gas best known for smelling like rotten eggs, turns out to play key roles in the body — a finding that could lead to new treatments for heart attack victims and others

The more than 6,000 active gas wells in Pennsylvania generate scores of complaints each week, many about terrible odors and contaminated water

Some of the findings in the report also directly contradict longstanding arguments by the drilling industry for why the fracking process is safe: that hydrologic pressure would naturally force fluids down, not up; that deep geologic layers provide a watertight barrier preventing the movement of chemicals towards the surface; and that the problems with the cement and steel barriers around gas wells aren't connected to fracking.

Thousands of natural gas wells dot the landscape there, along with the compressors that get the gaseous fuel ready to travel through pipelines.

Currently the EPA has voluntary programs for reducing methane emissions from fracked gas wells — regulations which don't extend to fracked oil wells containing gas, according to Doniger.

Local high school students participated in a mock spill event and learned what might happen if a truck carrying wastewater from a Marcellus Shale gas well crashed and spilled its contents.

Local hydrocarbon explorer Hardman Resources NL, which is on track to spud its first gas well in late October, has also strengthened its corporate status.

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

Several residents complained that their well water turned brown shortly after gas wells were fracked nearby, and, for a time, gas companies operating in the area supplied replacement drinking water to residents.

It's one thing to point to four successful instances in which nuclear explosions were used in the Soviet Union in decades past to seal gas wells after blowouts.

The EPA's findings in Wyoming are specific to the region's geology; the Pavillion - area gas wells were fracked at shallower depths than many of the wells in the Marcellus shale and elsewhere.

It should come as no surprise that experts in avoiding and stopping blowouts of oil and gas wells long ago saw the deep - ocean drilling frontier as particularly dangerous terrain, but industry — with federal assent, and our assent — drilled on.

The industry touts the amount of potential energy that can be gained from a fracking well relative to its «small» footprint as a major advantage of the process over conventional gas wells and coal extraction.

As the number of oil and gas wells increased in New York by roughly 1000 in the first decade of this century, inspections fell by a similar amount.