Sentences with phrase «hydraulic fracturing processes»

However, other mechanisms such as fluid withdrawal, enhanced oil recovery, or hydraulic fracturing processes can also result in induced earthquakes.»

Hydraulic fracturing processes, similar to those used in oil and gas production, also have been used in enhanced geothermal systems, but those processes have drawbacks due to the amount of water required, the potential toxicity of the chemicals used and the high costs of retrieving and treating the water.

Continental's success for the second consecutive quarter over Whiting highlights the importance of improving hydraulic fracturing processes, including the use of larger amounts of sand, which the Oklahoma City - based company has helped pioneer.

But the contaminants can come from several sources: from the hydraulic fracturing process itself, from the waste water, from the pits where drilling chemicals are stored, or from transporting chemicals and wastewater.

FILE - In this July 27, 2011 file photo, workers stand behind the top of a pump for the hydraulic fracturing process in the Marcellus Shale layer to release natural gas at a Range Resources site in Claysville, Pa. (AP Photo / Keith Srakocic, File)

America's midsection has experienced an uptick in quakes due to part of the hydraulic fracturing process: Wastewater from the fossil fuel extraction is pumped deep into the ground, causing faults to separate and slip.

The panel's recommendations included public disclosure of chemicals during the hydraulic fracturing process, which is widely called «fracking.»

When faced with uncertainties about the chemicals used in the hydraulic fracturing process, the researchers deliberately overestimated the amount of toxic chemicals that would reach the environment to ensure they weren't minimizing fracking's health impacts, Miller said.

Much of the uncertainty relates to the hydraulic fracturing process.

In particular, concerns that the hydraulic fracturing process (called «fracking») used to capture natural gas could pose a threat to the environment and public health if chemicals used in the operation contaminate underground drinking water.

The study, to be published in Water Resources Research on October 20, demonstrates that fractures in surrounding rock produced by the hydraulic fracturing process are able to connect to preexisting, abandoned oil and gas wells, common in fracking areas, which can provide a pathway to the surface for methane.

The high - volume hydraulic fracturing process.

Understanding of fundamental processes and prediction of optimal parameters during the horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing process results in economically effective improvement of oil and...

The hydraulic fracturing process — pushing gallons upon gallons of chemical - laden water into shale rock in order to bubble up natural gas — takes place deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the earth's surface and thousands of feet below the shallow aquifers that provide drinking water.

This technology holds great potential to lower the «dread to risk ratio» surrounding the hydraulic fracturing process, in which water with traces of other substances is injected into a well at high pressure to fracture deep shale layers holding the gas.

«The agency has walked away from nearly a thousand sources of information from published papers, technical reports and peer reviewed scientific reports demonstrating that industry practices, industry trends, and regulatory programs protect water resources at every step of the hydraulic fracturing process.

He noted that the hydraulic fracturing process lends itself to more leakage because it takes more time to drill the well, requires more venting and produces more flowback waste, he said.

Though much as the case elsewhere companies are also not required to disclose the chemicals that they use in the hydraulic fracturing process.

Control, monitor and maintain chemical mixture ratios and concentration levels in the water sent into oil wells during the hydraulic fracturing process to kill sulfate - producing bacteria; lengthening the well's lifespan.

Not exact matches

A recent Ceres research paper found that a lot of hydraulic fracturing — a process that uses tons of water — is taking place in water - scarce regions, with nearly 47 % of wells located in highly - stressed water basins, including 92 % of wells in Colorado and 51 % of wells in Texas.

The area underlying Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia is the epicenter of a boom in American natural gas produced through hydraulic fracturing, the process of injecting water, minerals and chemicals underground to free oil and gas from rock formations.

Now, it is suddenly plentiful and relatively cheap in the U.S. due to hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, a process that has unlocked natural gas from massive shale formations, driving prices down.

Banjo - playing Fox starts to wonder what impact the process of «fracking» (hydraulic fracturing) has, and sets off with his camera on a disturbing journey across the US, visiting residents who have already leased their land.

Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens today defended the department's decision to write regulations for hydraulic fracturing along with conducting an environmental review of the process, a move that environmental groups have said is essentially a fast - tracking.

Allowing the controversial natural - gas extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing would be «premature at a minimum,» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D - Manhattan, said in a statement.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, once on a fast track to begin the natural gas drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing in New York, has put his decision on hold while his administration is conducting a health review that began two years ago.

New York's health commissioner is still declining to speculate when his agency will finish a review of the health effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, meaning the state appears no closer to allowing the controversial drilling process.

She said she was most proud of fighting for the so - called Safe Act, a gun - control law that New York enacted after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., and against hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, a process known as fracking.

Others were upset by the ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, because they believe the gas drilling process would boost that region's struggling economy.

Schneiderman is also suing the federal government over its review standards for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial natural gas extraction process.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Joe Martens said last week that he expects the advisory committee of experts, local and state officials and environmental groups reviewing the controversial natural - gas extraction process hydraulic fracturing will meet in «the near future.»

Making fracking easier Extracting shale gas from the ground requires some genuine political courage, because there's deep suspicion across the country about what the process of hydraulic fracturing actually involves.

IOGA, the lobby for the industry, supports using the controversial extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking.

Ball opposes drilling in the Marcellus Formation and in particular the use of hydraulic fracturing in the process.

Both ads focus on the issue of hydraulic fracturing, a gas - drilling process better known as fracking.

A new study on managing wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing finds the biggest risk of contamination to drinking water supplies occurs during the disposal process.

Governor Cuomo has long stalled the process of hydraulic fracturing until there is a completed study on the health risks.

The city's leading Democrats all hailed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's decision today to ban hydraulic fracturing in New York State, reaffirming stances they'd long taken against the gas extraction process.

Lead by 17 - year - old senior, Anna Wysocki, who served as spokesperson for the student panel cited the governors endorsement of the ban on hydraulic fracturing in New York State because of the danger the drilling process posed to the safety of drinking water.

Horizontal hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, is an efficient means of extracting natural gas from shale deposits often otherwise unaccessible, but critics say the process causes environmental damage and can even possibly trigger future earthquakes.

The New York State Water Rangers, a group of environmental organizations that oppose hydraulic fracturing, are encouraged that Gov. Andrew Cuomo did not include revenue from hydrofracking in his budget, or add money for increased staff to process fracking permits.

Kavanagh: Right and what we would be approving is a process that includes all of those elements, if the state were to approve high volume hydraulic fracturing in New York State.

They also asked voters if they thought the process of high volume hydraulic fracturing would cause environmental harm — and 50 % said yes they thought there would be environmental damage.

By experimenting with hydraulic fracturing through extremely dense shale — a process now known as fracking — the wildcatters started a revolution.

Oil and gas companies developing fields in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and North Dakota rely on a process called hydraulic fracturing, which produces natural gas by blasting water and chemicals into energy - rich rock formations deep underground.

Many of the EPA's comments focus on how the state DEC will handle the chemically tainted wastewater from the drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

In most cases, it is not hydraulic fracturing (or fracking) of oil - and gas - bearing rock that sets off tremors but the related process of wastewater injection.

Previous studies have shown that fracking fluids contain high levels of salts, barium and radioactive elements, in addition to human - made chemicals added in the process of hydraulic fracturing.

Federal environment officials investigating drinking water contamination have found that at least three water wells contain a chemical used in the natural gas drilling process of hydraulic fracturing

The EPA took another step toward tightening oversight of hydraulic fracturing today, announcing it would initiate a process to set national rules for treating wastewater discharged from gas drilling operations.