Sentences with phrase «shale drilling technologies»

Meanwhile, the ongoing American shale gas boom — powered in part by decades of federal investments in shale drilling technologies — is accelerating the closure of US coal - fired power plants.

Not exact matches

US oil exploration companies have flocked to the superrich Permian Basin in recent years and used shale - drilling technology to create an oil boom that simultaneously helped trigger a price crash two years ago.

Under his leadership, EOG Resources developed a reputation as an innovator in drilling processes and technology in that nation's premier shale fields.

American shale drillers using the same technology have flooded their domestic market in recent years, pushing out higher - cost Canadian supply.

Oil production is soaring from shale formations in Texas and North Dakota using hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling technology.

In our Special Energy Report: An American Energy Renaissance, we highlight that just a few years ago investors were contemplating the supply constraints facing the petroleum industry, but with the disruptive technology in shale oil and gas in the U.S., we could now be looking at decades of drilling ahead.

New York hasn't issued permits for shale gas wells using horizontal drilling and fracking since it began its review of the controversial technology in 2008.

The EPA's comments, in a series of letters this week to the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, are significant because they suggest the agency will be watching closely as states in the Northeast and Midwest embrace new drilling technologies to tap vast reserves of shale gas.

A series of letters suggests the agency will be watching closely as states in the Northeast and Midwest embrace new drilling technologies to tap vast reserves of shale gas

In the 1990s, new drilling technology developed in Texas made recovering gas from shale far more efficient.

Most of the wells in the basin are drilled into «tight sand» formations that require the same fracking technology being used in shale formations.

Early shale fracturing and directional drilling technologies developed by the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA, later the Department of Energy), the Bureau of Mines, and the Morgantown Energy Research Center (later the National Energy Technology Laboratory);

He added: «There has been a revolution in the US with the shale gas technologies, with the fracking, the horizontal drilling.

The government hopes to revive domestic natural gas production with the technology that has transformed the energy picture in the United States — horizontal drilling into deep underground shale, and high - pressure injection of water, sand, and chemicals to create fissures in the rock to release the gas.

And from what is now known about all the major US plays (excepting the Moneterey shale, where because of folding and faulting no one has yet figured out how to successfully use the technology), EIA has simply figured out how many more wells could be drilled before all the known pay is fully drilled.

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 latest example of how wrong the Malthusian - influenced doubters have been is provided by fracking, horizontal drilling, and associated technology applied particularly to extracting oil and natural gas from shale formations.

Will we encourage industry investments, innovations and advanced technologies — including hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling that unlocked vast reserves of shale energy?