Sentences with phrase «shale gas formations»

Much of this increase can be attributed to increased production from the Pennsylvania portion of the Marcellus Shale Basin, as well as the adoption of more efficient drilling techniques and the continued targeting of liquids - rich shale gas formations.

Natural gas production from domestic shale gas formations began to rapidly increase starting in 2005, which has led to a relatively sustained period of low natural gas prices.

Brain research raises the possibility of a very exotic future (this article assumes that such animals wouldn't be vicious or use their new - found smarts to drive other species to extinction) «Liberated» mice from Italian lab now housed in poor conditions Methane leaks of shale gas may undermine its climate benefits: If methane leak rates are more than 3 percent of output, fracking of shale gas formations may be boosting greenhouse gas emissions rather than lowering them.

In 2012 it bought Celtic Exploration Ltd. for $ 3.1 billion, vastly increasing its acreage in the shale gas formations of northern B.C. and Alberta.

New York has one of the nation's largest untapped reserves of natural gas and is the only state with a major shale gas formation to ban fracking.

Heading west on roads that traverse the vast Marcellus shale gas formation, we are confronted with the state's new wealth generator — called fracking — as large trucks lumber by, loaded with high - pressure equipment, bizarre hoses, and all manner of curious, undisclosed chemicals.

The incidents occurred in the Marcellus shale gas formation, which is estimated to hold enough natural gas to meet U.S. demand for a decade or more.

Not exact matches

The pace of oil and gas production gains has consistently surprised forecasters since horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, better known as «fracking», were pioneered in U.S. shale rock formations about ten years ago.

The report said gas from shale formations increased world natural gas resources by 47 percent to 22,882 trillion cubic feet.

And not only is Britain thought to have generous reserves of gas trapped in underground shale formations, it is one of the few countries remaining in Europe not have banned fracking, as many of their neighbors on the Continent already have done, including France and Germany.

It recently flowed the highest volume of natural gas ever from a well in the Montney shale formation in B.C. and Alberta.

Papa, CEO of Centennial Resource Development, is a closely followed figure in the U.S. shale drilling world, where producers rely on advanced techniques to coax oil and gas from tight rock formations.

Every year, moreover, producers add to global reserves, whether through unlocking natural gas shale formations, oil sands bitumen plays, or drilling deep into the ocean floor.

New technologies emerged to extract gas from shale and other rock formations.

Thanks to new supply from shale formations, natural gas is not only abundant, but it's cheap too.

His company, Knightsbridge Risk Management, a private security firm in Dallas that serves the oil and gas industry, is getting calls from companies that want to plan ahead in case they shut down drilling operations in North Dakota and the Bakken shale formation.

A drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing in shale rock formations — fracking — in the U.S. produced large amounts of crude oil, natural gas and other petroleum products.

His travels took him on a whirlwind sojourn, from the massive shale gas deposit in the Marcellus Formation to Alberta's remote oil sands region, helping his readers build life - changing wealth every step of the way.

Now, it is suddenly plentiful and relatively cheap in the U.S. due to hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, a process that has unlocked natural gas from massive shale formations, driving prices down.

«So I thank Governor Cuomo for being open to the economic, employment and energy benefits that would accrue from safely extracting natural gas from gas - bearing shale formations in New York State, but I am grateful that he has prioritized the health of New Yorkers and the long term protection of the State's irreplaceable natural resources over a short term energy and economic boost from hydrofracking.»

As the recent court cases on force majeure point out, the gas industry could have been doing vertical shale drilling / fracking, as well as drilling in conventional formations, the whole time that the SGEIS / regulation process has been ongoing.

Imposes a 3 percent tax on the value of natural gas extracted from the «Marcellus shale» formation (S. 6610 / A9710, Part A).

While high - volume hydraulic fracturing is banned in New York State, using propane to bust open shale formations and release natural gas is not.

Gillibrand, a resident of Greenport in Columbia County, said that while Marcellus Shale gas would provide an economic shot in the arm, she doesn't want to support hydrofracking until she has answers to questions about the process of pumping chemicals under intense pressure into the shale formation.

But with the possible start to drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation of the Southern Tier, Libous — who supports the use of hydraulic fracturing — said more information is needed.

Fracturing a natural gas well requires millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to release gas from the shale formation thousands of feet below the earth's surface.

While the gas - rich Marcellus shale formation barely extends beyond Ulster's western edge, another gas - producing rock formation, called the Utica Shale, does underlay the county, and Zimet said gas - industry reps were already «trying to get leases» in the Town of Rochester.

Radon is a known cancer - causing radioactive gas and is found in the gas producing shale formations in Pennsylvania that are being piped into the City via the Spectra pipeline.

DEC continues to review a roadmap issued last fall, called a draft generic environmental impact statement, to allow hydrofracking in the gas - rich Marcellus shale formation that extends from south of Buffalo, through the Southern Tier and the Finger Lakes into the western Catskills.

Shale gas is methane trapped in tiny pockets in shale rock formations, sometimes in vast quantities.

It involves drilling horizontally into shale formations, then injecting the rock with sand, water, and a cocktail of chemicals to free the trapped gas for removal.

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.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

In the Marcellus region, the nation's biggest shale formation (in Pennsylvania and neighboring states), gas production is still increasing.

A rush to invest and drill Top producers Chesapeake Energy and Exxon Mobil Corp., along with hundreds of big and small oil and gas producers, are pouring billions of dollars into developing North American shale formations.

In recent years, the combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as fracking), have helped unlock vast stores of natural gas in shale formations.

COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») technology burns at a well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

He points out, however, that the EIA's most recent assessments of the total amount of gas that can be recovered from major shale gas areas, formations such as Marcellus and Texas's Barnett, have fallen rather than risen.

Nutrient - rich ash from an enormous flare - up of volcanic eruptions toward the end of the dinosaurs» reign kicked off a chain of events that led to the formation of shale gas and oil fields from Texas to Montana.

That's how Ed Davey, the United Kingdom's Energy and Climate Minister, is describing the climate impacts of natural gas from shale formations: This report shows that the continued use of gas is perfectly consistent with our carbon budgets over the next couple of decades.

But the compounds used to crack shale formations to release their gas and oil reserves are under increasing scrutiny.

Roosevelt, which lies in the heart of the Bakken shale formation, is surrounded by oil and gas development.

More than 30 states have shale formations that harbor natural gas underground, according to the Energy Information Administration.

The formation, composed of layers of shale and hydrocarbons, is beneath land that has been the site of conventional oil and gas drilling since the 1880s, when American oil companies first began operating.

«If you can't turn the well so it goes along the shale formation and a lot of the well is exposed to the gas, you can't get the gas out economically,» says Anthony Ingraffea, a hydraulic fracturing expert and professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University.

The results come as a natural - gas boom hits the United States, driven by a technology known as hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking», that can crack open hard shale formations and release the natural gas trapped inside.

In a review of the potential health impact of fracking, which involves the pumping of water and chemicals into dense shale formations to push out gas and oil, Public Health England (PHE) said any health impacts were likely to be minimal.

Also at stake are a number of high profile U.S. politicians who have staked, to a large degree, their upcoming reelection by campaigning on the claimed successes of the oil and gas companies operating within their state's shale formation.

Natural gas is removed from shale rock formations that date from the Paleozoic Era — roughly 542 to 251 million years ago.

Access to vast, new supplies of natural gas and natural gas liquids from shale formation is one of the most dramatic domestic energy developments in the last 50 years.