Sentences with phrase «horizontal drilling techniques»

Historically, fracturing in California has been used in vertical wells — not in combination with the horizontal drilling techniques that have wrested oil from North Dakota's Bakken and natural gas from the Barnett shale of Texas or Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania.

Companies finally started combining horizontal drilling techniques with hydraulic fracturing completion technology, there was no real way to effectively produce it.

But even without the change, NPS officials are hopeful that direct impact on federal park property can be avoided with the use of horizontal drilling techniques from offsite.

Not exact matches

«The deposits are in narrow bands that can only be accessed with horizontal drilling, and the oil and gas are locked in these little pockets and are only available with techniques like hydraulic fracturing.»

In many cases, additional extraction techniques such as horizontal drilling were required.

New technologies such as horizontal drilling and enhanced recovery techniques are being piloted to further improve recoveries.

He said that an amendment was already planned that would extend the ban to include wastewater from vertically drilled oil and gas wells (which is being used elsewhere in the state for deicing roads), as well as those using horizontal fracking techniques.

The term is also used more generally to describe a host of unconventional extraction techniques, such as horizontal drilling, which have helped make the United States the top producer of crude oil in the world.

Since then, oil production at other sites across the United States has seen a decline so companies have been fracking, a technique that combines hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, to tap into the oil and gas resources at the Permian.

A key element in the success of North American shale gas production has been combining cost - effective horizontal drilling, a technique developed over the last 30 years, with hydraulic fracturing, which has been practised since the 1940s.

The techniques of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, in combination, have opened up vast new areas for natural gas production, and low - cost natural gas has altered the energy landscape in the United States.

From the article: There is a lot of talk these days of the U.S. becoming energy independent because of the new horizontal drilling and fracking techniques, which have opened up the vast shale plays across the country.

Today the United States is the No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas on the planet, thanks largely to innovations in the decades - old technique of hydraulic fracturing coupled with advances in horizontal drilling and the dedication of millions of women and men in the oil and natural gas industry.

Now, a year later, Devon attacked the shale by combining fracking with another technique that was its specialty — horizontal drilling.

The production surge has followed advances in horizontal drilling and completion techniques:

Horizontal drilling isn't a major leap, just a refinement of old techniques, but it suits the «technology will save us» narrative.

With the development of horizontal drilling and other techniques, there are arguably more resources than there were available to us in the past.

the claim that the industry has been fracking for 60 years is true but grossly misleading as the current practice involving horizontal drilling and in general aggressive techniques to extract gas from marginal resources only dates back to the 1990s; rather than millions of well using fracking, current practice has only been tested over a few tens of thousands of wells

Josh Fox, whose HBO documentary «Gasland» raised questions about the safety of the natural gas drilling technique known as horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, was handcuffed and led away on Wednesday as he tried to film a House Science Committee hearing on the topic.

Even a handful of state and local governments have sued, claiming that horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking techniques violated various trespassing, public nuisance and pollution standards.