Sentences with phrase «oil and gas operations»

The cause, scientists say, is injecting wastewater from oil and gas operations into deep underground wells.

However, the disposal of treated wastewater from conventional oil and gas operations was allowed to continue.

No other technology has been proven successfully for oil and gas operations.

More specifically, do your regional findings give a clue as to how much of what you see from energy sector is from drilling as opposed to other oil and gas operations?

There is increasing evidence that these earthquakes are caused by injecting fluids from oil and gas operations deep into the earth.

Obama - era rules to cut methane emissions from oil and gas operations on public lands are in the crosshairs of the Trump administration.

Through a combination of cost - effective measures that build on white papers issued for public comment last year, EPA has set a goal of cutting methane emissions from oil and gas operations by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025.

The orbiter, a silver rectangular box, has been using Tropomi's information to home in on industrial facilities, such as oil and gas operations, to see if they have sprung methane leaks.

Earthquakes in the central U.S. have increased over the past 10 years due to the expansion of unconventional oil and gas operations that discard wastewater by injecting it into the ground.

Colorado announced proposed rules on Monday designed to reduce emissions during oil and gas operations in an agreement with drillers that addresses one key environmental concern surrounding the U.S.

«Reducing emissions from new oil and gas operations is an important first step,» said Meleah Geertsma, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Perth - based explorer Hawkley Oil & Gas has entered into a binding term sheet for the sale of its Ukraine oil and gas operations to Black Star Petroleum in exchange for 600 million shares.

Some of Friedland's past money - makers include the 1996 sale of his Voisey's Bay nickel property to Inco for $ 3.1 billion and the 2009 sale of Ivanhoe Energy's American oil and gas operations to Seneca Resources Corp. in a $ 40 - million deal.

The health department's full case for the ban is laid out in a report that summarizes existing information on HVHF - related oil and gas operations» impacts to water, air, soil, and communities.

But geoscientists now say there is no reason why oil and gas operations couldn't end up triggering something much larger.

The 39 unreported emission sources, found in the analysis of satellite data from 2005 to 2014, are clusters of coal - burning power plants, smelters, oil and gas operations found notably in the Middle East, but also in Mexico and parts of Russia.

Petroleum industry interests said the EPA's plan to regulate existing oil and gas operations was overkill.

«Could excess water from oil and gas operations help farmers and reduce seismicity?.»

Fred's work on monitoring emissions from onshore oil and gas operations is also the subject of a recent Education in Chemistry article.

Methane and other pollutants, like benzene and toluene, that are released from oil and gas operations absorb infrared radiation at certain wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum.

Updated, 3:53 p.m. A comprehensive new study of atmospheric levels of methane, an important greenhouse gas released by leaky oil and gas operations and livestock, has found much higher levels over the United States than those estimated by the Environmental Protection Agency and an international greenhouse gas monitoring effort.

The Barents Observer has a thorough piece noting that many of the planned icebreakers will serve oil and gas operations and some will be ice - hardened LNG (liquefied natural gas) tankers.

«We must immediately begin to slow down that process, first by requiring oil and gas operations to curb their soot and methane emissions.»

In a test case pitting community rights against the oil and gas industry, the Court ruled that the towns of Dryden and Middlefield can use local zoning laws to ban heavy industry, including oil and gas operations, within municipal borders.

US Republican House Representative Ken Buck of Eastern Colorado (my current representative) is a leading proponent of deregulated oil and gas operations.

Mexico, the fifth - largest methane emitter in the world in 2015, published regulations in 2016 for methane emissions in its upstream oil and gas operations, and addressed methane in recently published guidelines for unconventional oil and gas development.

Addition of a new oil and gas methane model to estimate emissions levels and abatement opportunities and costs for methane emissions from oil and gas operations globally.

Andy Ware, deputy director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, which oversees oil and gas operations in the state, says that last week's quakes — the latest in a series that began more than seven months ago — all appear to have been centered within 2 miles of an 18 - month - old well.

Researchers found «no immediate health concerns from air quality» and concluded that «oil and gas operations do not cause harmful excess air emissions.»

Methane escaping from oil and gas operations totaled approximately 1,680 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2012, calculated based on methane's 100 - year global warming potential (GWP).

Methane emissions from oil and gas operations worldwide represent a significant loss of natural gas resources and is a material contributor to total GHG emissions and global climate change.

A recent study by Stanford scientists found that fracking and other oil and gas operations contaminated groundwater in Pavillion, Wyo..

Based on the best currently available data, around 3.6 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas escaped into the atmosphere in 2012 from global oil and gas operations.

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's proposal to modify the Blowout Preventer System and Well Control Rule imposed following the 2010 Macondo deepwater well accident and crude oil spill reflects BSEE's recent work to revise flawed regulations and make offshore oil and gas operations safer, and Independent Petroleum Association of America official said.

[Translate] By Jim Meyer GRIST Shutterstock In a recent congressional hearing about oil and gas operations in national wildlife...

In that case, plaintiffs leased mineral rights to their property to Marathon Oil, which then conducted oil and gas operations in the area surrounding the plaintiffs» home.

With CCS, instead of releasing carbon dioxide from oil and gas operations into the atmosphere, where the emissions contribute to global warming, that CO2 is converted into liquid and pumped underground to be sequestered indefinitely in porous rock formations.

The Trump administration will suspend a rule to limit methane leaks from oil and gas operations on federal land, but its true aim may be to kill the Obama - era requirement.

«The methods we've developed could be especially useful in areas where the source of contamination is unknown and could stem from either recent unconventional oil and gas activities associated with hydraulic fracturing or from a long legacy of conventional oil and gas operations in the same watershed,» said Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

It's all part of a process of moving practices in the right direction, as is E.P.A.'s move to greatly tighten air standards for oil and gas operations.

But as oil and gas operations have become more controversial in the energy - rich state, Hickenlooper also threw his support behind the stricter air quality rules, calling for «zero tolerance» on methane emissions.

The Gulf Research Program (GRP) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is awarding $ 10.8 million to six new projects to develop new technologies, processes, or procedures that could result in improved understanding and management of systemic risk in offshore oil and gas operations.

«Wastewater from both conventional and unconventional oil and gas operations is exempted from the Clean Water Act, which allows their disposal to the environment.

So will the 74,000 people within a half - mile of oil and gas facilities on public lands across America who deal with the smog - forming and toxic, cancer - causing air pollutants emitted along with methane during oil and gas operations.