Sentences with phrase «horizontal drilling methods»

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Numerous energy and gas drilling companies are now vying with one another to tap these deposits using a method known as horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking).

The researchers devised a method to test the drill cuttings from horizontal wells in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania.

The illustration displayed here explains the conventional, vertical well method of extracting natural gas, and the unconventional, more recent method of extracting natural gas in shale via horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Now they have spotted something else from space: large plumes of fugitive methane gas liberated from these formations by unconventional extraction methods like horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

The proposal to allow horizontal hydraulic fracturing, a method of drilling for natural gas involving the injection of millions of gallons of chemically laced water, has caused a furor around the state.

And if you don't think similar effects dominate in wind as higher altitudes are being reached, geothermal where the same horizontal drilling as makes fossil reserves more accessible now can be used, and tidal, with new materials and methods coming onstream, then by all means, continue to live in your vacuum tube world, getting left behind by the rest of us.

Long touted as a method that reduced the environmental footprint on the surface, horizontal drilling also allowed a company to reach huge volumes of gas from just one well.

A method used to extract natural gas from shale involving horizontal drilling, high pressures, lots of waters, lots of chemicals, resulting in toxic waste.

The method combines a new form of horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing — more commonly known as fracking GThe process blasts open fissures in underground shale - rock formations by injecting a high pressure combination of fluids, chemicals and proppants causing the fossil fuel to flow to the production well.