Sentences with phrase «own oil and gas well»

Estimates vary widely on just how much methane is leaked from the vast network of oil and gas wells, pipelines and processing plants, but the problem has cast doubt on how much better natural gas is than coal for the environment.

After some training courses, high school graduates can work as oil and gas well drillers or servicers — supervisors typically work their way up through the various drilling crew jobs.

High school graduates can work as on - shore oil and gas well drillers or well servicers once they complete three to months of formal on - the - job training.

In Colorado's Weld County, home to Peppler's farm and more than 19,000 active oil and gas wells, some officials see selling unneeded portions of their allotments from the Colorado River as a way to shore up city budgets.

The company, which had made its name providing investors with a steady income from its oil and gas wells, cut its dividend in half as capital spending rose and energy prices fell.

For example, he signed and sent a letter as Oklahoma Attorney General criticizing EPA estimates of emissions from oil and gas wells, without disclosing that it had been drafted in its entirety by Devon Energy.

Fracture stimulation of this sort had been experimented with, in both oil and gas wells, since the 1950s with mixed results.

If Alberta doesn't change how it requires companies to finance their own oil and gas well cleanup costs, the energy industry and, ultimately, taxpayers in Alberta face cleanup costs of up to $ 8...

The cost of reclaiming over 300,000 oil and gas wells in Alberta likely exceeds $ 70 billion, and the cost of cleaning up the toxic tailings ponds and other damage at the oil sands could reach similar levels.

There are over a million oil and gas wells in the United States.

And it was great that the rally was held right in our constituency, at the huge facilities of Packers Plus, a high - tech manufacturing company that produces downhole tools for completing oil and gas wells.

Not to be mistaken for the computer maker HP, Helmerich & Payne is evolving in the drilling of oil and gas wells.

Likewise, Joel Johnson, CEO of Borusan Mannesmann Pipe USA, in Baytown, Texas, said the company requires imports from Turkey to produce tubular goods for oil and gas wells.

New Federal regulations, announced on Friday, updated rules for 95,000 oil and gas wells that operate on Federal land.

In a surprising victory for former President Barack Obama's environmental legacy, the U.S. Senate voted to uphold an Obama - era climate change regulation to control the release of methane from oil and gas wells on public land.

Britain will continue to be dependent on gas, oil and gas well into the future, an independent review of international energy security has found.

A new report from Environmental Advocates of New York is questioning the state's regulation of wastewater from oil and gas wells.

Paterson noted the bill, which was passed by both the Senate and Assembly during the recent extraordinary session (although it was not on the governor's agenda), goes well beyond horizontal hydraulic fracturing and effectively would result in a moratorium on all new oil and gas well drilling.

He praised his former boss for achieving a Solomonesque solution back in December 2010 by vetoing a hydrofracking moratorium bill passed by the Legislature while simultaneously issuing an executive order that prevented any drilling in the Marcellus until July 1, 2011, reasoning that the bill, while well - intentioned, was far too broad and would effectively would result in a moratorium on all new oil and gas well drilling.

Former county legislator and current New Paltz Town Supervisor Susan Zimet said the proposed law «is only the first step» and municipalities need to act to prevent the use of oil and gas well brine on roads.

He said that an amendment was already planned that would extend the ban to include wastewater from vertically drilled oil and gas wells (which is being used elsewhere in the state for deicing roads), as well as those using horizontal fracking techniques.

For instance, in April 2015, ITLOS ordered a number of provisional measures which forced Ghana to suspend the drilling of new oil and gas wells in the disputed territory, pending the outcome of the litigation.

Waters produced from unconventional oil and gas wells typically have radium isotope ratios (radium - 228 to radium - 226) that are different than those from conventional oil and gas operations, he said.

Eleven percent of the country's natural gas and 5 percent of its oil come from oil and gas wells on federal lands.

Studies have suggested that leaks of methane during production from oil and gas wells are so high that the fuel may be no better for the climate than coal.

To conduct the new study, the researchers collected and analyzed 44 samples of waters produced from conventional oil and gas wells in New York and Pennsylvania and 31 samples of flowback waters from hydraulically fractured shale gas wells in Pennsylvania and Arkansas.

«It's not only fracking fluids that pose a risk; produced water from conventional, or non-fracked, oil and gas wells also contains high levels of radium, which is a radioactive element.

For 300 million years faults showed no activity, and then wastewater injections from oil and gas wells came along

Levels of contamination were just as high in wastewater coming from conventional oil and gas wells as from hydraulically fractured shale gas wells.

Oil and gas wells let loose a lot of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

Since January 2011, FracFocus, an online chemical - disclosure registry, has assembled a list of the mixtures used at more than 52,000 oil and gas wells across the United States.

New research shows that an area larger than the land area of Maryland — more than 11,500 square miles — was completely stripped of trees, grasses and shrubs to make way for more than 50,000 new oil and gas wells that were developed each year between 2000 and 2012.

Silica exposure also occurs from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) of oil and gas wells.

«This is important work,» he says, «but the great bulk of the problem is elsewhere, downstream in the natural gas system», including poorly capped oil and gas wells no longer in production.

A surprising number of U.S. oil and gas wells, similar to this one, are hydraulically fractured at shallow depths, a new study finds.

With more than 17 million Americans now living within one mile of an oil and gas well, there is concern about the possible contamination of surface and groundwater by trace metals, radioactive isotopes and other inorganic compounds released in these areas, they point out.

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.

The study, to be published in Water Resources Research on October 20, demonstrates that fractures in surrounding rock produced by the hydraulic fracturing process are able to connect to preexisting, abandoned oil and gas wells, common in fracking areas, which can provide a pathway to the surface for methane.

His study found natural backgrounds of methane in well water, but no trend related to the proximity of 661 oil and gas wells.

Until now, estimates of shale gas production have primarily relied on models established for conventional oil and gas wells, which behave differently from the horizontal wells in gas - rich shales.

The most recent such study, published in Environmental Science & Technology, finds that at least 6,900 oil and gas wells in the U.S. were fracked less than a mile (5,280 feet) from the surface, and at least 2,600 wells were fracked at depths shallower than 3,000 feet, some as shallow as 100 feet.

DOE estimated that by 2013, at least 2 million oil and gas wells in the United States had been hydraulically fractured.

He also has come out in favor of the Keystone XL pipeline and against Interior regulations to limit methane waste from oil and gas wells.

There are upwards of 2 million abandoned and plugged oil and gas wells in the U.S., more than 100,000 of which may not appear in regulators» records.

Oil and gas wells in Michigan's Lower Peninsula in 2005.

The well had been authorized by the Railroad Commission of Texas, which once regulated railways but now oversees 260,000 oil and gas wells and 52,000 injection wells.

Doubling the radius they reviewed in Chico to a half mile, they found 13 other injection or oil and gas wells.

The top map, produced during the Civil War, shows the «oil district» of West Virginia, and includes locations of oil and gas wells, as well as coal seams.

The nation's oil and gas wells produce at least nine billion liters of contaminated water per day, according to an Argonne National Laboratory report.

This map shows the hundreds of oil and gas wells that exist on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southwestern Colorado, and on other public lands straddling the Colorado - New Mexico state line near Durango, Colo..