Sentences with phrase «natural gas well sites»

The study team hopes its measurements of liquid unloadings and pneumatic devices will provide a clearer picture of methane emissions from natural gas well sites and about the relationship between well characteristics and emissions.

Not exact matches

The emissions from natural - gas - fired boilers used to generate steam make the well site more carbon - intensive than conventional oil wells.

The site has access to nearby natural gas and reagent sources for processing as well as a skilled labour pool of engineers and refinery workers.

Ty Wright Bloomberg Getty Images A rig hand removes a drill pipe from a natural gas well at a fracking site in Washington Township, Pa..

The groups, which include the Natural Resources Defense Council, Earthjustice and Frack Action, said using propane would create substantial risks because of the volatility of the gas, pointing to explosions at well sites in other states in recent years.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

Less encouraging was what the team discovered at 150 other well sites that were already producing natural gas.

According to the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), based in Washington DC, the best sites can generate electricity for as little as 5.5 cents per kilowatt - hour, compared with 8 or 9 cents per kilowatt - hour for natural gas plants.

Cornell University researchers factored in the carbon emissions over the course of natural gas's life cycle when it is extracted using hydraulic fracturing — which includes drilling the wells, erecting the construction sites, building pipelines to transport the gas, fueling the pumps that force the water underground, and transporting the wastewater — and concluded that natural gas is dirtier than coal.

«Many reports have been written on the contamination of air and water by volatile organic compounds near natural - gas well sites,» said Verner, who is also a researcher at the Public Health Research Institute.

«The goal is to assess the overall health of the babies (birth weight, pre-term births, head circumference and the prevalence of certain congenital birth defects) in relation to their proximity to natural - gas well sites and the number of active wells in their environment,» the researcher said.

Townsend - Small says water samples finding natural gas - derived methane in wells near Pennsylvania fracking sites were taken only after fracking had occurred, so methane levels in those wells were not documented prior to or during fracking in Pennsylvania.

Better measurements on site might also permit a better understanding of how to reduce the climate impacts of natural gas, but the gas industry has, for the most part, not cooperated with attempts by either the EPA or independent scienBetter measurements on site might also permit a better understanding of how to reduce the climate impacts of natural gas, but the gas industry has, for the most part, not cooperated with attempts by either the EPA or independent scienbetter understanding of how to reduce the climate impacts of natural gas, but the gas industry has, for the most part, not cooperated with attempts by either the EPA or independent scientists.

Natural gas wells are not restaurant kitchens that can be «cleaned up» before the inspectors come — emissions levels from activities like well completions are determined by geology and the equipment on the site, the companies couldn't have influenced them to any significant degree if they tried.

The natural gas leak is rooted from SoCalGas» Aliso Canyon site, where a relief well is now being created to stop the hazardous emissions.

The technology to collect and market the natural gas is available, but rather than installing the necessary infrastructure, operators often burn excess gas at the well site, selling just the liquid fossil fuels.

This report found that direct measurements of methane emissions from 190 onshore natural gas sites in the United States indicate that methane emissions from completed wells are are lower than commonly thought although the report also acknowledged that emissions from pneumatic controllers and other equipment associated with natural gas production facilities were higher than previously estimated.

Natural gas is burned off next to water reservoirs used for fracking at an oil well site August 23, 2011 near Tioga, N.D.

Emissions from natural gas production have dropped because of a 2012 EPA rule to cut VOCs from gas sites, and the new strategy would extend the VOC reductions to new oil wells, too.

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.

The UT researchers took measurements at 190 natural gas production sites — and nearly 500 wells — in every region of the United States where hydraulic fracturing is occurring.

As we explained in December (This is the ongoing gas leak in California that's an epic ecological disaster) in the United States old oil fields are commonly used on the premise that geological sites that were good at keeping in oil for millions of years would also be good at keeping in gas — there are hundreds of depleted oil fields now doing service as storage sites for natural gas.