Sentences with phrase «leaks from drilling»

Learn about the climate risks of natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines.

Methane — a primary component of natural gas — leaks from drilling sites and pipelines.

Natural gas leaks from drilling sites, processing plants, storage facilities, and pipelines that move natural gas from areas of supply to areas of demand.

A Twitter comment on methane leakage from gas operations reminded me to add a note about another ripe opportunity for citizens to track gas leaks from drilling operations, compressing stations or pipelines: Raise money for some infrared cameras and then survey your region periodically.

(This is also one reason I like the use of infrared imagery to spot possible gas leaks from drilling sites and pipelines.)

Last spring, the EPA doubled its estimates of methane gas leaked from drilling equipment and said the amount of methane pollution that billows from fracking operations was 9,000 times higher than researchers had previously thought.

Not exact matches

US - based Chevron (CVX) was fined 50 million reals ($ 28 million) by Brazil's federal government earlier this month for leaking around 2,400 to 3,000 barrels from one of its offshore drilling platforms located 75 - miles off the coast of Brazil's iconic beaches in Rio de Janeiro.

The rule in question is meant to reduce leaking, venting and flaring of methane from drilling activity on federal land.

Since these gases are leaking as they are piped to the surface, rather than seeping up through the ground from deep fracking sites, improving the integrity of drill holes and pipelines could curb the problem of water pollution.

Boom in Arctic Ocean drilling means hazardous leaks under ice, hidden from sight — but not from sound

Environmental controls designed to prevent leaks of methane from newly drilled natural gas wells are effective, a study has found — but emissions from existing wells in production are much higher than previously believed.

When petroleum leaks from a ship or a deep - water drilling operation, «it tends to break up into tiny droplets that don't all end up on the surface of the ocean,» says Thomas Azwell, an environmental scientist at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, who was not involved in the work.

Fracking has already drawn considerable scrutiny from environmental groups, unhappy homeowners, and teams of lawyers who blame the drilling method for polluting pristine rivers, turning bucolic farmlands into noisy industrial zones, and leaking enough methane to make ordinary tap water as flammable as lighter fluid.

And there are other challenges associated with fracking for natural gas besides climate change, from what to do with the wastewater produced to drinking water contamination and even improperly drilled wells that leak or explode and get out of control (a blowout).

Records from disparate corners of the United States show that wells drilled to bury this waste deep beneath the ground have repeatedly leaked, sending dangerous chemicals and waste gurgling to the surface or, on occasion, seeping into shallow aquifers that store a significant portion of the nation's drinking water.

Fossil methane that leaks naturally from these sites — «geologic methane» — has an isotope signature that's identical to the fossil methane emitted when humans drill gas wells.

But the new Purdue study suggests the EPA's inventories may not be quantifying all the methane emissions from wells being drilled because few people have measured methane leaking from wells in the earliest stage of well development — the actual drilling itself.

The EPA estimated in 2011 that natural gas drilling accounts for about 1,200 gigagrams, or 2.6 billion pounds, of methane emissions each year from well completions, equipment leaks and pneumatic controllers.

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The resulting report looked into the amount of money lost to taxpayers from leaks during careless gas drilling on federal lands.

One option alluded to earlier in these pages could be citizen patrols to check for methane leaks from natural gas facilities: drilling operations, compressing stations or pipelines.

Though the morale of the environmental movement was far from upbeat in 2010 — remember, COP15 had just ended disappointingly, an energy bill had failed to gain ground in Congress, and the Deep Water Horizon drilling platform had begun leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico — there was some guarded optimism.

While he described various reviews of policies on oil drilling and much - needed changes in the Minerals (Mis) Management Service, he shied away from threatening to exert more direct oversight of efforts to cap the seafloor leak.

Such leaks from coal mines and gas drilling sites are on the rise as a result of the shale gas boom in the US.

Although oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform site may in fact be creating the greatest environmental and economic harm in U.S. history so far, there is new evidence that another looming environmental problem is likely to produce far worse environmental and economic impacts not only for the United States but particularly for some of the poorest people around the world.

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.

About a third of the human budget comes from fossil fuel exploration, where methane leaks from oil and gas wells during drilling, the researchers said in a press release.

Methane emissions that occur during drilling and from pipeline leaks also add to the so - called green house gas effect.

Included in life cycle carbon are substantial methane leaks from natural gas production and pipelines, the energy for drilling, mining, transport, refining, and disposal that are much more significant for fossil fuels and nuclear energy than for renewables.

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North Dakota's Bakken shale formation is so ethane - rich that leaks and venting from drilling and fracking there was responsible for a spike in ethane levels in the Earth's atmosphere, researchers concluded last year.

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From the time the well is drilled, methane is leaking into nearby rocks, and escaping to the surface; not all of it is captured at the well head.