Sentences with phrase «of drilling sites»

In the U.S. the Obama Administration has granted sweeping approval to a wide swathe of drilling sites in its Arctic waters, despite widespread condemnation from environmentalists and northern indigenous communities.

Most of the drill sites flooded had already been fracked, and were actively producing oil or gas — so chemicals added to fracking fluids should not have been on site.

Bowen, a physics PhD, alpinist and science writer, was called on two days» notice to replace another writer who decided not to go visit one of the drill sites, went from Boston to the drill site at Sanjay in Bolivia where the scientists were working at 21,000 ′ (yes, that's twenty - one thousand feet above sea level, this is not a misprint.)

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The EPA's study found that between 25,000 to 30,000 new wells were drilled each year between 2011 and 2014 and that 9.4 million Americans live within a mile of a fracking site.

The Piceance Basin, which spans much of western and northwestern Colorado, already has multiple well sites, pipelines and processing plants in place from a previous round of drilling in a shallower formation, Ludlam said.

Esperanza's Budlong Apartments - a 12 - unit apartment building located less than two miles from the AllenCo drilling site - is one of the nearly 800 buildings in Los Angeles that qualify for SOMAH benefits.

Energy companies frequently «flare» or burn off vast supplies of methane at drilling sites because it earns less money than oil.

Drilling site managers, who oversee exploration projects, are in huge demand, with both number of employees and salaries up by more than a third over five years.

Moncla Companies, a third - generation drilling company, had only 2 of its 11 barge rigs operating on work sites as of this spring.

«It is a full - fledged boom,» says Dale Redman, chief executive of Propetro, a Midland, Texas, firm that supplies heavyduty horsepower to drill sites, where energy companies coax crude from the ground with sand and water.

The production at the Tiputini C well site is the first of approximately 276 planned wells, ten drilling platforms, and multiple related pipelines and production facilities.

By: Henry Lazenby 28th September 2016 Multinational drilling equipment and services provider Boart Longyear has received an award of C$ 1.37 - million from the Ontario government to help improve safety at mineral exploration drilling sites and the efficiency of drilling systems technology.

«Greenhouse gas emissions are going to go through the roof with a project of this kind,» said Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Joe Foy «From escaped methane at the drill sites to the massive carbon emissions required to cool the gas, to more escaped methane on the long trip across the ocean to Asia and then the emissions from burning the gas.

The results discussed in this news release are from drill core samples obtained by PQ and HQ - size triple - tube diamond core drilling using two PMC400 man - portable drill rigs owned by SAMJ and operated by Sumiko Resources Exploration & Development Co., Ltd. (a wholly owned exploration services subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.) The drilling program was fully supervised by SAMJ senior project geologists at the drilling site.

This company deals directly with the production and supply of sand to drill sites.

The study of Pennsylvania residents comes days after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo promised to visit a gas drilling site in the Keystone State.

At the event, Cuomo made comparisons between his administration and that of President Trump, saying while Trump is focusing on offshore drilling, he's planning to build more offshore wind - generating sites.

State Environmental Commissioner Joe Martens and acting Health Commissioner Howard Zucker presented their findings, which raised concerns about the impact drilling would have on the environment and the health of residents living near potential drilling sites.

Wading River resident Bill Gunther, a member of the Navy's Calverton remediation advisory committee, which has worked with Navy, state and county officials to monitor and coordinate cleanup efforts at the Grumman site, urged Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone to keep the well - drilling unit intact.

Hawkins and a group of fractivists went to several drilling sites in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania last week to talk about the potential negative impacts that fracking can have.

The site was the scene of protests during the summer when energy firm Cuadrilla carried out test drilling for oil.

Furthermore, each of us is his own individual voice, and part of the beauty of the internet is that a site like ConservativeHome isn't an army, with contributors drilled to parrot out a line.

In practice, however, the ban — which applies to wells using more than a certain amount of fluid — will eliminate the most attractive sites because drillers now won't «have enough water» to operate effectively, says Robert Jackson, a professor of environmental earth system science at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

The study challenges the estimate by federal officials, based on the amount of oil on the sea surface, that around 5000 barrels (800 cubic metres) of oil per day are pouring into the sea from the site where the BP - operated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon was destroyed by fire last month.

The MoneyTree survey Web site allows users to drill down to the level of individual companies; what kinds of companies, or what companies in the geographic area you plan to live in, received an influx of cash recently?

During the six - week expedition, the team plan to drill at 11 sites in water depths of 720 to 1,770 metres and recover cores between 50 and 70 metres in length.

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Quelccaya is so remote that on one of his first treks to drill for ice core samples, Thompson and his team could not get their drill and generator to the work site.

Their scientists flew more than 250,000 kilometres across much of West Antarctica — including the areas draining to the Ross and Ronne ice shelves — and part of East Antarctica, including the famous ice - core - drilling sites Vostok and Dome C.

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.

Now, using two deep cores collected at two Ocean Drilling Program sites in the Southern Ocean, Jaccard and colleagues have reconstructed ocean records of productivity and vertical overturning reaching back a million years, through multiple glacial - interglacial cycles.

Fracking — the process by which water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to force the oil out of rock formations — is suspected of contaminating nearby aquifers and wells, as well as causing dozens of small earthquakes near the drill sites.

Many of these substances are found in various fluids used at drilling sites.

The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission is now assessing the status of flooded drilling sites.

«This model would say that after three months you should pack up and drill in another location if you have a number of distinct drilling sites that you're exploring.»

LIFE AND DEATH Rock samples collected from the Chicxulub crater during a drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year suggest that microbes returned to the site within hundreds of years of the dino - killing impact.

Groups opposed to fracking have raised the alarm over images of storage tanks shifted off their foundations at oil and gas drilling sites.

At the proposed site, the Tohoku fault lies under 7 kilometers of water and some 700 meters of Earth's crust, so a huge drill string will be needed.

It's a low - tech version of the drills they usually use, and it is typically employed to test core quality at a site before large - scale drilling.

Following its initial approval of the proposal in September, the IODP has now confirmed that funding is available for the Chikyu to set sail in April and drill at a site south of the quake's epicentre (see map).

«Imagine that you are in this site a hundred million years ago; the area that we drilled in was covered by at least a few meters of rock.

That's frustratingly short of the crucial transition period, so to extract an older core, the EPICA consortium must now go back to its drill site.

However, because the rock at Yellowknife Bay has only been exposed to cosmic rays for 80 million years — a relatively small sliver of geologic time — «the potential for organic preservation at the site where we drilled is better than many people had guessed,» Farley says.

Geoscientist John Higgins (right) of Princeton University and his team drilled at three sites, hauling tents and equipment, such as a drill bit filled with an ice core.

Hill found that the babies born to mothers within 2.5 kilometers (a little over 1.5 miles) of drilled gas sites were 25 percent more likely to have low birth weight compared to those in non-drilled areas.

The researchers admitted their work was compromised by their lack of full access to the drilling site.

The team used a 300 - metre deep core drilled through the layers of sandstone and claystone at a site on the Illawarra plateau.

A study published today in Science explains how wastewater injection sites — areas where toxic water left over from oil drilling and fracking processes is injected into the ground between impermeable layers of rocks to avoid polluting freshwater — could be driving the sharp increase in the sometimes - disastrous earthquake events.

Past research has shown that processes such as wastewater injection at oil drilling and fracking sites throughout the state could induce a small number of earthquakes but scientists have never been able to specifically link some of the more distant or stronger earthquakes with these sometimes faraway wastewater wells.

They found that wells located within 1 kilometre of an active shale - gas drilling site contained 17 times as much methane on average as those further away.