Sentences with phrase «shale oil or gas»

For the USA it is critical to replace the millions of barrels of expensive imported crude oil used primarily for transportation with local alternates, i, e, more US oil, shale oil or gas, biofuels (NOT corn!)

You probably already read about California being added to the list of states facing the economic opportunities and environmental issues that come with abundant shale oil or gas (oil in California's case, because of the Monterey Shale).

Not exact matches

To get the oil, producers fracture, or «frack,» the earth below with a high - pressure liquid mixture to untap oil and gas from shale rock.

It's going to cost her $ 3,200 to get a lab to test for all the acids, detergents and poisons that companies say they use for fracking — or hydraulic fracturing — to break up underground shale and remove oil and natural gas.

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.

However, oil prices have been dropping like hot potatoes, almost 30 %, and with that energy stocks are tanking in unison and singing songs with same tune, along with drilling and exploration companies for shale oil or natural gas.

With the US currently feeling more or less self - sufficient with the shale oil / gas boom of the last decade, the primary market for bitumen has dried up, and shipping it around the world is laughably uneconomical.

If such developments were to occur elsewhere, either because of shale gas or the advent of a truly global natural gas market, then, according to our analysis, this could have a major impact on the use of different fuels — oil, gas, coal, renewables, and nuclear.»

Added Vengosh: «Our new study, which integrates data from multiple government and industry sources, provides the first comprehensive assessment of fracking's total water footprint, both nationally and for each of the 10 major U.S. shale gas or tight oil basins.»

Hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» is a petroleum - extraction procedure in which millions of gallons of water (as well as sand and chemicals) are injected deep into underground shale beds to crack the rock and release natural gas and oil.

Hydraulic fracturing, a technique for extracting oil and gas from shale rock, often takes place a mile or more below groundwater supplies.

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.

Chip Northrup, a former oil and gas investor from Texas who now splits his time between Dallas and upstate New York, is an articulate and energetic opponent of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for the natural gas locked in deep shale layers in the state.

A decade ago, no one projected the growth in shale gas or tight oil in the US or anywhere else in the world.

Moreover, we should avoid now economically (but not ecologically) feasible widespread use of CO2 dirty technologies: coal - to - liquid, gas - to - liquid, oil shales or tar sands... nice said, worse done...

The game - changer is «unconventional fossil fuels,» much of it trapped in shale — rock that often contains oil or gas.

While natural gas is much less carbon - intense than coal or oil, a burgeoning industry based on cheap shale gas easily could swamp those gains in the long run.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a technique to remove natural gas and oil from shale formations, has been under withering assault from environmental groups for much of the last decade.

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking for shale gas is the new wild frontier of the fossil - fuel industry, one they're keen to promote as a low - carbon alternative to high - polluting coal and oil.

The oil and gas industry, industry - funded academics and ideological think tanks have promoted shale gas development — through the controversial process of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — as a sure - fire job creator during difficult economic times.

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.

About 40 percent of the oil and gas wells in parts of the Marcellus shale region will probably be leaking methane into the groundwater or into the atmosphere, concludes a Cornell - led research team that examined the records of more than 41,000 such wells in Pennsylvania.

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.

BNP Paribas recently announced that it was restricting financing for oil and gas projects from shale and / or oil from tar sands as well as exploration and production projects in the Arctic.

Indeed, throughout the long oil and gas history of the Appalachian Mountains, where the world's first oil well was drilled in 1859, drillers have known of «shows» of gas from the shale, brief blasts that would blow methane - charged water out of the hole, or tangle the drilling lines.

Chevron and other giant energy companies are demanding a TTIP investment chapter that will allow them to sue governments if environmental or other regulations interfere with their expected future profits by, for example, restricting oil and gas drilling, imposing pollution and oil spill controls or constraining the use of hydraulic fracking techniques to extract natural gas and oil from shale formations.

Fracking, or Fracing as the oil and gas industry ungrammatically spells it, is short for hydraulic fracturing, and the technology is now being used extensively to extract shale gas, by pumping liquids at high pressure into the rock, creating and expanding fissures.

Consider that we may use the equivalent of 1/2 a barrel of natural gas to process 1 barrel of oil from shale kerogen or to crack oil from tarry goo.

Fully implement his Executive Order 13514 requiring all resource management agencies to fully consider climate pollution, like they do other types of pollution, prior to leasing or exporting onshore and offshore oil, gas, coal, and unconventional fuels sources such as oil shale and tar sands.

The sandy water fractures the shale, releasing the gas or oil trapped inside.

Historically, fracturing in California has been used in vertical wells — not in combination with the horizontal drilling techniques that have wrested oil from North Dakota's Bakken and natural gas from the Barnett shale of Texas or Marcellus shale in Pennsylvania.