Sentences with phrase «oil fracking operations»
Chesapeake Energy workers at one of the company's Texas oil fracking operations (Photo: Michael Stravato / The New York Times)
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Some states require oil and gas companies to disclose the chemicals and the amount of water they use in fracking operations on FracFocus.org, a website formed by industry and intergovernmental groups in 2011, but the statistics are not complete.
However, with questions now being raised about the profitability of fracking operations as oil prices tumble, the industry appears to have inadvertently addressed Mitchell's concerns all by itself.
A recent article from Shale Plays Media highlights that just a year ago oil field fracking operations used around 2,500 tons of sand, whereas today the new fracking techniques call for as much as 8,000 tons of sand to be pumped into a well.
Since many energy companies have adopted the process of fracking in their oil field operations, they have come to rely on sand as an integral component to this procedure.
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to release natural gas and oil from underground rock.
And there are substances that oil and gas companies use in fracking operations that they don't disclose publicly.
As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.
A Feb. 24, 2014 Rice University news release (also on EurekAlert) and on Azonano as a Feb. 25, 2014 news item) describes a technique tracks which wells are producing oil or gas in fracking operations,
Fracking is a shock and awe operation that turns drinking water into a poisonous club that is used to smash apart our nation's bedrock in order to extract inherently leaky fossil fuels: oil and gas.
We empower local communities to protect themselves from reckless fracking operations, and we partner with leading scientists, financial analysts, and First Nations to stop the expansion of dirty tar sands oil development.
It's like what happened in Pennsylvania when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court finally interpreted the state constitution to actually mean that local communities can block, for example, fracking operations in the Marcellus Shale seeking to extract oil and gas and saying that these communities and the people that are affected have a right to at least contest these kinds of developments.
Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing operations, by the oil and gas industries can emit significant amounts of methane.
Dirty energy lobbyists, including those of Chevron, could effectively use hypothetical arguments of TTIP illegality to chill government action on both sides of the Atlantic to curtail hydraulic «fracking» for natural gas, deny permits for liquefied natural gas export terminals, close coal - fired power plants, and prohibit new coal mining, oil drilling, and oil / gas pipeline operations, among others.