Sentences with phrase «over gas drilling»

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Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.

The five - year program, launched by the federal government in early January, proposes to make over 90 percent of the total U.S. offshore acreage available to oil and gas drilling.

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

NE is an offshore drilling contractor for the oil and gas industry with operations all over the world including operations in the United States, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea, the Mediterranean, West Africa, the Middle East, India, Malaysia, and Australia.

The share price of Carrizo Oil & Gas, an Eagle Ford - focused shale driller, has plunged by as much as 15 percent over the past week.

PDC has successfully drilled the equivalent of 20 - 22 horizontal wells per 640 - acre section, to more efficiently capture the large oil and gas resources in - place in the Niobrara and Codell formations, which contain over 300 feet of combined reservoir rock.

Tensions between the NATO allies already were rising over the warships Turkey deployed in recent days to block a rig from reaching a location off of Cyprus where Italian energy company Eni is scheduled to drill for natural gas.

An April report from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers revealed that the oil and gas industry had seen a 62 percent drop in capital investment, and a drop of 66 percent in the amount of new oil wells drilled over the last two years.

Hurricane season runs until the end of November, should any major storm threats arise over the coming months which lead to the suspension of drilling expect to see the price of natural gas to move up.

Astorino's choice also shows his attention to the Southern Tier, which Astorino contends was failed by Cuomo over his indecision over whether to expand drilling for natural gas, which is opposed by environmental groups.

Anti fracking activists, including Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, attempted to present the state's environmental agency with over 200,000 comments, on the last day of a public comment period on the gas drilling process.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned hydrofracking in 2014, but that hasn't brought an end to controversies over the natural - gas drilling technique.

The Senate and Assembly Environmental Committee Chairs both take a dim view of the controversial gas drilling process, but they differ over what's the next step.

Now that elections are over, supporters and opponents of hydro fracking are wondering what will be Governor Andrew Cuomo's next move on the long stalled gas drilling process in New York State.

The company — which Pegula formed in 1983 — had been active in upstate New York over the years, particularly in the early years of the 2000s, when it drilled dozens of conventional natural - gas wells in the Trenton Black River formation in Chemung and Steuben counties.

But this decision has not quelled the heated debate over the controversial gas drilling process.

Currently, the Department of Environmental Conservation is reviewing over 60,000 public comments on the gas drilling process.

Now that elections are over, supporters and opponents of hydrofracking are wondering what will be Governor Andrew Cuomo's next move on the long stalled gas drilling process in New York State.

Now that elections are over, supporters and opponents of hydrofracking are wondering what will be Gov. Andrew Cuomo's next move on the long - stalled gas drilling process in New York state.

The Pavillion area has been drilled extensively for natural gas over the last two decades and is home to hundreds of gas wells.

Mixed reaction from gas groups As drilling picked up over the past couple of years, the administration has straddled the line on natural gas.

The study, which is being conducted under the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund program, is the first time the EPA has undertaken its own water analysis in response to complaints of contamination in drilling areas, and it could be pivotal in the national debate over the role of natural gas in America's energy policy.

But in August, local gas drilling companies informed government officials they would not cooperate with the study unless Garfield County and the state agreed to replace Witter's team with other academic researchers and start over.

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

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.

With energy becoming more and more expensive, drilling the Roan for natural gas would seem a win — win — at least to some: All that gas is expected to yield about half a billion dollars for the State of Colorado over the next twenty years.

The debate over whether and how drilling and fracking contaminate groundwater with gas — the infamous flaming water faucet of the documentary Gasland — would benefit especially.

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.

While the study does not prove that hydraulic fracturing actually causes these health problems, the authors say, the hospitalization increases observed over the relatively short time span of observation suggests that healthcare costs of hydraulic fracturing must be factored into the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil drilling.

Over the past several years, the United States and other countries have undergone an energy revolution as new drilling techniques and a process called hydraulic fracturing have made it possible to recover vast amounts of natural gas.

Drilling for gas in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania has transformed the state into an energy powerhouse and produced economic prosperity from jobs and royalties over the past several years.

The question has long been, if the Marcellus can cause radioactive gas to seep into people's basements, how much radioactivity might be infused into the water left over from drilling?

• Baseline ground water quality data should be taken before drilling begins and be monitored over the lifetime and abandonment of the gas - producing well.

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Over three years, the EPA has sampled water in Dimock, Pa., Pavillion, Wyo., and Parker County after residents complained that their water had turned foul once natural gas drilling began nearby.

Over the past 200 years, agriculture, oil and gas drilling, livestock grazing and development have reduced sage grouse range by nearly half, and sage grouse populations have steadily declined.

For decades, natural gas (methane) deposits were tapped by single wells drilled vertically over large, free - flowing pockets of gas.

Session Description: Improved capabilities for horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past decade led to significant increases in unconventional oil and gas production in several regions of the United States.

Heat trapping greenhouse - gas emissions are the obvious culprit, since they've increased dramatically over that same 50 years, but scientists prefer hard evidence to presumption, so a team from the British Antarctic Survey has been drilling into ancient ice to see how the current warming stacks up against what happened in the ancient past.

To determine emissions rates at natural gas fields in Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale gas fields, the researchers used emissions data gathered from an airplane that flew over natural gas wells in southwest Pennsylvania in June 2012, some of which were in the process of being drilled.

Here, Damon stars as Steve Butler, a farm boy - turned - itinerant corporate pitchman employed by a gas conglomerate to fast - talk country folks into turning over their drilling rights.

Currently, as a result of the depressed prices for natural gas and the inability of exploration companies to obtain financing, the drilling industry is experiencing the sharpest downturn in over 20 years.

According to data collected by Drillinginfo, there are currently over 900,000 active oil and gas wells in the United States, with more than 130,000 of those well drilled since 2010.

, there are currently over 900,000 active oil and gas wells in the United States, with more than 130,000 of those well drilled since 2010.

Like Tommy Lee Jones drills around Texas, human being are drilling around world and want to use up last drop of fossil fuel, emit dazens billion tons of greenhouse gas, pollute all the rivers of world, raise over several degree temperature, melt away all of Arctic ice.

A key element in the success of North American shale gas production has been combining cost - effective horizontal drilling, a technique developed over the last 30 years, with hydraulic fracturing, which has been practised since the 1940s.

11:15 p.m. Updated below As I promised in an earlier post on transparency and conflicts of interest in the fight over natural gas drilling, here's my piece on the importance of peer review in gauging the merits of research findings wielded by the «ban» or «bonanza» factions in this continuing battle.

However, in their recent publication in Climatic Change Letters, Howarth et al. (2011) report that their life - cycle evaluation of shale gas drilling suggests that shale gas has a larger GHG footprint than coal and that this larger footprint «undercuts the logic of its use as a bridging fuel over the coming decades».

Fracking Bryan R. Walsh of Time Magazine has beautifully summarized energy issues that are simmering today as President Obama takes his education - oriented bus tour to Binghamton, N.Y., at the epicenter of the fight over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the gas drilling boom it has spawned:

That's why a great deal of attention was paid last week to the results of a two - day aerial survey over gas fields in southwestern Pennsylvania that calculated emission rates of methane (the main component of natural gas) from two well pads still in the drilling phase.