Sentences with phrase «hydraulic fracturing combined»

High volume hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling introduces heavy industrial activity and hazardous substances into property owners» backyards across America where families raise their children and farmers raise cattle and grow crops.

The topic is increasingly in the spotlight as the land grab for gas leases — by drilling companies seeking to tap shale deposits via high - volume, hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling (fracking)-- continues through New York State and the nation.

Modern hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling allows multiple wells to be drilled from one spot, reducing the size of the drilling area above ground by as much as 90 percent.4 Fracking is the key to unlocking vast U.S. shale resources, freeing up oil and natural gas that previously was inaccessible while protecting groundwater supplies and the environment.

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Oklahoma's Devon Energy combined horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing to extract even more gas.

Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to release natural gas and oil from underground rock.

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 prevalence of industry best practices nationwide, combined with strong state regulatory frameworks is the reason why the EPA Draft Assessment found no widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources from hydraulic fracturing.

Now, fairness dictates I point out that George Mitchell didn't invent hydraulic fracturing or directional drilling — the two technologies that, when combined, have unleashed the surge in oil and natural gas production the United States has experienced over the last half decade.

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But precisely at the moment Greenspan was delivering his grim forecast for the United States, energy industry iconoclasts in Texas were proving definitively that combining horizontal drilling and large - volume hydraulic fracturing could unlock a huge rush of gas from shale.

High - volume hydraulic fracturing has been combined with horizontal drilling over the past decade to force oil and natural gas out of shale and other tight geological formations by fracturing the rock with high - pressure injection of water, sand, and chemicals.

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

The combined negative effects of hydraulic fracturing mean it's worse than other fossil fuels, the report finds.

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.