Sentences with phrase «natural gas extraction wells»

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Also the production of the oil sands results in extraction of the natural gas as well.

The Company's Sand segment consists of the production and sale of various grades of industrial sand primarily used in the extraction of oil and natural gas, as well as the production of building products and foundry materials.

Two Syracuse University geology professors - along with a graduate assistant or two - are hurrying to collect water samples from drinking wells in the Southern Tier before - and if - the natural gas extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing is approved in New York.

For the hydraulic fracturing system, the study estimated the toxicity of the fracturing fluid chemicals used to crack rock and release natural gas, as well as the wastewater associated with shale - gas extraction.

U.S. EPA has begun the process of requiring natural gas companies to use «green completions,» a set of technologies and methods that allow for an efficient and leak - free transfer of natural gas from extraction wells to transport pipelines to the refineries or processors.

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

Given the realities and the time needed to make the transition to a lower - carbon economy, I think probably some expansion of natural gas extraction needs to be in the mix, but hopefully with better environmental protection than has generally been the case so far.

Methane emissions derive mostly from landfills, agriculture (particularly rice farming), livestock, and natural gas and coal extraction, while soot, otherwise called «black carbon», results from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels and derives primarily from primitive cook stoves used throughout much of the developing world, as well as diesel engines and coal - burning power plants.

Fracking allows for the cheap extraction of natural gas from shale deposits that were previously inaccessible, and it is responsible for both the boom in natural gas production as well as the correlate controversy.

Consumer groups concerned with global warming, the integrity of the food supply, and natural gas extraction might well get behind elimination of dirty ammonia.

Meanwhile, numerous industry efforts are underway to further exploit stressed public lands and perpetuate fossil - fuel dependence through the extraction of coal, oil and gas, oil shale and tar sands, and liquefied natural gas development — as well as uranium mining and milling and the construction of energy corridors and long - distance electric transmission lines.

UT's sampling of well sites estimates the national leakage rate associated with the production phase of natural gas extraction to be equivalent to less than half of one percent of total natural gas produced.

This work emphasizes the need for top - down identification and component level and event driven measurements of methane leaks to properly inventory the combined methane emissions of natural gas extraction and combustion to better define the impacts of our nation's increasing reliance on natural gas to meet our energy needs.

I claim no particular expertise on the issue of whether, on balance, increased extraction of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing is a good thing for the environment and our economy, in relation to our current methods of energy generation or other feasible alternatives.