Sentences with phrase «shale deposits»

Modern hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in American shale deposits allowed companies to increase natural gas production 50 percent over the past decade:

The topic is increasingly in the spotlight as the land grab for gas leases — by drilling companies seeking to tap shale deposits via high - volume, hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling (fracking)-- continues through New York State and the nation.

Reuters also reports that, separately, a DoI spokesperson indicated that plans to further develop oil shale deposits in the several Rocky Mountain states are also continuing.

A lighter take on a serious subject, one day before the official start of winter... The tune is familiar, the words clever and the cause serious: Fracking for natural gas, occurring in a number of places as fossil fuel companies try to to tap into the billions of dollars worth of natural gas trapped in shale deposits, using a technique with some environmentally dubious consequences — flammable drinking water, anyone?

The mainstream media regularly repeats claims by the fossil fuel industry and the federal government that the US is undergoing a long - term energy revolution thanks to hydraulic fracturing («fracking») in shale deposits.

So if the United States is buying the dirtiest stuff, it also surely will be going after oil in the deepest ocean, the Arctic, and shale deposits; and harvesting coal via mountaintop removal and long - wall mining.

This sounds similar to what's being worked on in Alberta, except Shells» Shale plan is to generate scads of electricity, use that energy to pump a chilled refrigerant around and over buried tar shale deposits - this is to freeze the groundwater enough to encapsulate a 2000 - foot deep segment of shale - followed by pumping out the groundwater inside the frozen periphery and inserting giant electrodes into the isolated shale body to heat the now - dried interior to 700 degrees Fahrenheit for a period of three years, before extracting the oil liberated by the interior heat.

Since the success of the Barnett Shale, natural gas from shale has been the fastest growing contributor to total primary energy (TPE) in the United States, and has led many other countries to pursue shale deposits.

Tapping the Marcellus, Bakken, Barnett, Haynesville and other formations has created jobs, generated revenues and rejuvenated moribund industries in many states that have shale deposits or manufacture the fluids, pipes and other equipment used in these operations.

A few years ago, Mitchell Energy and others combined HF with horizontal drilling to tap into hydrocarbon - rich shale deposits that previously refused to surrender their energy riches.

It is estimated that U.S. shale deposits contain 100 years of natural gas supply.

Access to vast new supplies of American natural gas from shale deposits is one of the most exciting domestic energy developments in decades, particularly for the business of chemistry — energy policies must enable access to this immense supply of natural gas while protecting the environment.

The process of extracting natural gas from shale deposits includes hydraulic fracturing, during which fluids and solids are pumped into the well.

Fracking allows for the cheap extraction of natural gas from shale deposits that were previously inaccessible, and it is responsible for both the boom in natural gas production as well as the correlate controversy.

It is estimated that U.S. shale deposits contain 100 years of natural gas supply, a «game changer» that is rejuvenating America's chemistry industry — and can strengthen U.S. manufacturing, boost exports, create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, and improve our nation's energy security.

The recent rapid expansions of shale oil and gas production from the widespread shale deposits in many parts of the US at current price levels using new but proven technology shows that the peak oil hypothesis is false and Obama was wrong.

Amends the Mineral Leasing Act to modify leasing guidelines for: (1) lands within special tar sand areas; (2) oil shale deposits and expanded lease acreage; and (3) lease exclusion from any chargeability limitation associated with oil and gas leases.

LNG is the super-chilled final product of gas obtained - predominatly in today's context - via the controversial hydraulic fracturing («fracking») process taking place within shale deposits located throughout the U.S..

The Duke study found no evidence of contamination from chemicals in the fracking fluids that are injected into gas wells to help break up shale deposits, or from produced water.

In the energy markets, he said, «prices have been very low,» thanks to natural gas from shale deposits, and the market is «doing the job markets were intended to do.»

Found in limestone and shale deposits, tight oil isn't extracted from wells like conventional oil, but is removed with hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking» — a process that also releases methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

The quote from Mitt Romney's (allegedly «ghostwritten») book points to the conclusion that the USA should do more oil and gas exploration («drill, baby, drill») including shale deposits, to get more «energy independent» (combined, of course, with supporting basic research for new energy technologies).

The practice of high - volume water fracturing to release gas trapped in shale deposits, known as fracking, has drastically reshaped the U.S. energy picture.

Better yet would be to debate an energy policy for the USA, including opening up exploratory oil and gas drilling including shale deposits, limiting the exponential growth of regulations currently stifling new exploration, ending the EPA regulatory war on coal, reactivating the Keystone pipeline, etc.; these issues have direct impact on American jobs and future energy independence, both of which are more important issues for US voters (and presidential candidates) than any «climate» debate.

Output from shale deposits including the Marcellus has surged 10-fold since 2005 to account for a third of the country's gas production, government data show.

So if the United States is buying the dirtiest stuff, it also surely will be going after oil in the deepest ocean, the Arctic, and shale deposits; and harvesting coal via mountaintop removal and long — wall mining.

New, more accurate hydrofracturing (fracking) drilling techniques have opened up enormous, previously inaccessible shale deposits, providing abundant, irresistibly low - cost supplies.

Fracking's infrastructure extends to the shale deposits of Pennsylvania, Texas, Oklahoma, and North Dakota, where the wells are drilled, to the hills of Wisconsin and Minnesota, where frack sand is mined, to the spiderweb of pipeline, compressor stations, storage depots, power plants, and LNG...

There could be as much as 2,600 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas available domestically.63 The U.S. currently uses approximately 22 tcf per year.64 If the shale deposits meet their potential, these finds will certainly help accelerate the retirement of coal power plants and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and our foreign exchange imbalance.

Energy companies have honed in on the region, as well as in other major shale deposits throughout the country, including the Haynesville Shale, Fayetteville Shale, Eagle Ford Shale and Barnett Shale.

But really, Bruce's solution for Britain is underwater frakking in off - shore shale deposits.

The dramatic rise in shale - gas extraction and the tight - oil revolution (mostly crude oil that is found in shale deposits) happened in the United States and Canada because open access, sound government policy, stable property rights and the incentive offered by market pricing unleashed the skills of good engineers.

Isn't the technology and process they describe similar to how natural gas companies are now harvesting natural gas embedded within shale deposits deep underground (work now going on within WV, Northeast PA, and into NY).

In a speech at Pace University yesterday, Veerappa Moily, India's minister of petroleum and natural gas, described how, as part of a government plan for energy self sufficiency by 2030, India is planning an aggressive push to extract natural gas from its large shale deposits.

The Energy Information Administration has released «World Shale Gas Resources,» an important commissioned report providing an assessment of how much natural gas is locked in shale deposits in 14 regions around the world.

The study found no evidence of contamination from chemical - laden fracking fluids, which are injected into gas wells to help break up shale deposits, or from «produced water,» wastewater that is extracted back out of the wells after the shale has been fractured....

Updates below After years of gauging the environmental, medical, economic and political risks of hydraulic fracturing, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is moving to ban this method of extracting natural gas from shale deposits in New York State.

Josh Fox, the filmmaker whose «Gasland» documentary powerfully influenced debates about gas extraction from shale deposits, has started a conversation with me related to his new short video, «The Sky is Pink,» and my post supporting New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's signaled plans for the state's gas resource.

Second, several years ago, I heard that teams of Chinese engineers were spending months in Oklahoma to learn about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, as a method for liberating gas and oil from previously untappable shale deposits.

The Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration has posted a short update on trends in natural gas production in the United States that's worth noting simply because it illustrates the profound nature of the energy transitions that are being propelled by the exploitation of shale deposits using hydraulic fracturing, known best as fracking, along with horizontal drilling.

New York State appears to be further slowing its effort to produce rules governing fracking, shorthand for the suite of drilling methods used to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits.

(Already, with the surge of drilling for abundant oil and gas in shale deposits, there's much talk of whether we can sustain research and investment in non-fossil energy options.)

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

It is estimated that U.S. shale deposits contain 100 years of natural gas supply, a «game changer» that is rejuvenating America's chemistry industry — and can strengthen U.S. manufacturing, boost exports, create hundreds of thousands of new jobs, and improve our nation's energy security.

However, the technique proved difficult to use in shale deposits, which form in layers that are wide but shallow.

While the published study looked specifically at the Cretaceous and North America, Lee said arc volcano flare - ups at other times and locations on Earth may also be responsible for other hydrocarbon - rich shale deposits.

Natural gas cracked out of shale deposits may mean the U.S. has a stable supply for a century — but at what cost to the environment and human health?

The campaign for new nuclear projects has run into depressed electricity demand due to the recession and the prospect of competition from low - priced natural gas from shale deposits.

Fracturing deep shale deposits by injecting them with water, sand and chemicals at high pressure — with the aim of releasing the gas they hold — is causing concern worldwide.

Biologist Sonja Wedmann, then at the Institute of Paleontology at the University of Bonn, analyzed the fossil after it was dug up from oil shale deposits in what was once a small lake formed by volcanic activity.