Sentences with phrase «gas wells in»

Assisted in the initial flow of Oil and Gas wells in the Bakken and Williston Basin of North Dakota

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

The EPA set new source performance standards for oil and gas wells in 2012, but that rule didn't directly regulate methane emissions.

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

There are lots of old oil and gas wells in this part of the seabed, potential avenues for leakage.

The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state.

[9] However, it is also thought that fresh water used in the pressurization of oil and gas wells in permafrost and along the continental shelves worldwide combines with natural methane to form clathrate at depth and pressure, since methane hydrates are more stable in fresh water than in salt water.

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

The two countries have since drilled a series of exploratory oil and gas wells in the JDA.

Abandoned offshore oil and gas wells in the North Sea may be a source of significant methane emissions finds a new study, which claims to be the first to measure the amount of methane leaking from offshore wells.

About 40 percent of the oil and gas wells in parts of the Marcellus shale region will probably be leaking methane into the groundwater or into the atmosphere, concludes a Cornell - led research team that examined the records of more than 41,000 such wells in Pennsylvania.

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.

China's largest coal company, China Shenhua Energy Co. announced plans to form a joint venture with Energy Corp. of America to drill 25 natural gas wells in Pennsylvania.

The United States today has 487,286 gas wells in production; a staggering number.

Still awaiting a patent in the U.S., the technique has been used about 1,000 times since 2008, mainly in gas wells in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and New Brunswick and a smaller handful of test wells in states that include Texas, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico, said GasFrac Chief Technology Officer Robert Lestz.

In 2004, Pennsylvania DEP records documented the collection of gas in the basement of the Harper residence, near several gas wells in Jefferson County about 80 miles northeast of Pittsburgh.

An E.P.A. review of methane emissions from gas wells in the United States strongly implies that all of these figures may be too low.

Hill's work has focused on birth weight and other measures of the condition of babies born to women living close to gas wells in rural Pennsylvania and is summarized so far in a «working paper» titled «Unconventional Natural Gas Development and Infant Health: Evidence from Pennsylvania.»

, there are currently over 900,000 active oil and gas wells in the United States, with more than 130,000 of those well drilled since 2010.

According to data collected by Drillinginfo, there are currently over 900,000 active oil and gas wells in the United States, with more than 130,000 of those well drilled since 2010.

Additionally, we held a non-operated interest in 26 gas wells in the Sacramento Valley of northern California.

Prior to June 30, 2009, we operated 67 gas wells in the Sacramento Valley of northern California.

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.

Oil and gas wells in Michigan's Lower Peninsula in 2005.

There are upwards of 2 million abandoned and plugged oil and gas wells in the U.S., more than 100,000 of which may not appear in regulators» records.

DOE estimated that by 2013, at least 2 million oil and gas wells in the United States had been hydraulically fractured.

The most recent such study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, finds that at least 6,900 oil and gas wells in the U.S. were fracked less than a mile (5,280 feet) from the surface, and at least 2,600 wells were fracked at depths shallower than 3,000 feet, some as shallow as 100 feet.

There are now about 14,000 gas wells in the area, and it is there that the environmental fallout of fracking has been most pronounced.

Uinta had 4,300 oil and 6,900 gas wells in operation, and Helmig used a 20 - foot - diameter balloon to hoist his measurement apparatus to 200 yards over the fields.

One promising way to do that was recently tested on a string of more than a dozen natural gas wells in the heart of the Texas oil fields.

After testing a sample of abandoned oil and natural gas wells in northwestern Pennsylvania, the researchers found that many of the old wells leaked substantial quantities of methane.

There are about 500,000 gas wells in the country, said Bradbury, and 300,000 miles of pipelines.

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

Folks who live closest to natural gas wells in Pennsylvania suffer ill health.

To conduct the new study, the researchers collected and analyzed 44 samples of waters produced from conventional oil and gas wells in New York and Pennsylvania and 31 samples of flowback waters from hydraulically fractured shale gas wells in Pennsylvania and Arkansas.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

The researchers detected a «significant regional flux» of methane, a greenhouse gas with about 30 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over a 100 - year period, coming from an area of gas wells in southwestern Pennsylvania.

By comparison, Chevron, the second-most profitable American company, told CDP it used such completions in 90 percent of its natural gas wells in 2013.

The company used reduced emissions completions in only 29 percent of natural gas wells in the United States, the filing said.

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

For instance, in April 2015, ITLOS ordered a number of provisional measures which forced Ghana to suspend the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the disputed territory, pending the outcome of the litigation.

Scroggins, a self - described fracking tour guide, escorted Hawkins and former Binghamton Mayor Matt Ryan — both stauch opponents of fracking — on a tour of northern Pennsylvania natural gas wells in October.

Tens of thousands of workers have been hired to work on newly drilled gas wells in Pennsylvania adjacent to the Southern Tier area of New York, which has been plagued by unemployment and poverty brought about by a declining agriculture base, high taxes, and a loss of local population.

The company — which Pegula formed in 1983 — had been active in upstate New York over the years, particularly in the early years of the 2000s, when it drilled dozens of conventional natural - gas wells in the Trenton Black River formation in Chemung and Steuben counties.

This publication reports the number of drills actively exploring for or developing oil or natural gas wells in the United States and Canada.

There are over a million oil and gas wells in the United States.

The cost of reclaiming over 300,000 oil and gas wells in Alberta likely exceeds $ 70 billion, and the cost of cleaning up the toxic tailings ponds and other damage at the oil sands could reach similar levels.

That January, its natural gas well in northern Bangladesh had exploded, leaving a huge crater.

PERTH - based oil and gas company Antares Energy has announced first commercial sales from its third gas well in the Ellis County region of Oklahoma, in the US.

Only one shale gas well in Britain has been hydraulically fractured.