Sentences with phrase «sand and water pumped»

Hydrofracking relies on a high - pressure blend of chemicals, sand and water pumped deep underground to break up gas - bearing rock formations, freeing gas to rise up the well to the surface.

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Both countries also have enough water and specialized drilling rigs to support fracking, which involves pumping huge quantities of liquid and sand underground to crack open rocks and release energy reserves.

SAGD involves removing bitumen (a thick form of crude oil) from the ground by injecting steam into an oil sands reservoir and pumping the oil and water mixture to the surface.

This pump water or sand will help kids sift through the sand and look for buried treasure.

Kids can dig and scoop better than anything with this pump water or sand.

The state had a de facto ban in place as it studied the process, which involves extracting oil and gas from deep underground by pumping water, sand and chemicals at high pressures deep underground.

That's the sound of fracking — pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals a mile or more into the Earth to shatter shale deposits and release the natural gas within.

To free the gas trapped in the Marcellus and other shale formations, drillers pump millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals deep underground under pressure.

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.

«All you have to do is bring the dredgers, suck sand and pump it on the low - lying land in shallow waters.

Their systems are elaborate, with layers of soil, clay, sand, gravel and matting to protect the plastic from puncture, and sumps, pumps and wells to monitor and draw off any water that penetrates the system.

But the Mojave Desert site, with its lava flowers and sand dunes, is also involved in a debate over whether Cadiz Inc. will be able to build a proposed 43 - mile - long pipeline to pump water from an aquifer under land its owns to 100,000 households in Southern California.

Their technique involved pumping large quantities of water combined with fine sand and chemical additives into the ground.

Millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and up to 300 tons of chemicals are then pumped into the well at high pressure to create breaks in the rock and release the gas.

To ensure high standards of hygiene, CRCG's water management system filters, heats and sanitizes the water through a circulation pump, a specially designed in - line electric heater and a high - rate sand filter system before a low dose of chlorine is added manually.

From tame foot high, family friendly waves, to pumping, powerful surf, the meeting of warm subtropical waters and pristine stretches of sand is a siren song to those seeking rejuvenation.

In the weeks following the rupture of the Exxon Mobil Pegasus pipeline that spilled hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil (or tar sands diluted bitumen) into a Mayflower, Arkansas neighborhood and lake, the news about the spill was just one depressing story after the next as we learned that wildlife had been oiled, local residents, including children, were becoming sick, contaminated water was pumped into the lake, the media was being intimidated to reduce access and coverage and that Exxon may have known about the spill earlier than they are letting on.

Then a mixture, commonly known as fracking fluid, of water (90 percent), sand (9.5 percent) and chemicals (0.5 percent) is pumped into the well under high pressure to create micro-fractures in the shale and free the natural gas or oil.

Millions of gallons of pressurized water, sand, and chemicals are then used to create fissures in the rock and release oil, which is pumped out.

Horizontal wells, and «pumping 281,000 barrels of water and 12.4 million pounds of sand beneath the surface.»

Hydraulic fracturing is accomplished by pumping a mixture of water, sand and chemical additives, into dense rock formations deep below the earth's surface under pressure.

Monitored, operated, and adjusted water treatment pumps, valves, tank levels, line pressures, chemical feed equipment, rapid sand filter performance, sedimentation basin, and turbidity through SCADA or direct observation.