Sentences with phrase «shale regions»

$ 1 million unconventional oil and gas research program, which gathers critical data on the extreme impacts of fossil fuel development in the Marcellus and Bakken shale regions.

The Northeast Energy Direct plan would have included a spur line into Connecticut to bring natural gas from the Marcellus shale regions of Pennsylvania.

Thanks to the new supplies brought online from America's shale regions, we have entered an era of energy abundance fundamentally different from the atmosphere that prevailed during the previous four decades.

Production of natural gas from shale regions across the country, along with investments in pipeline infrastructure, allows natural gas to meet the growing demand for clean, affordable electricity.

The company does not have assets in the much talked about Bakken shale but has a large presence in the Marcellus share and Utica shale regions.

That analysis was then overlaid with a Department of Energy database of large shale regions such as the Marcellus formation stretching from Ohio to northern New York and the Barnett formation in Texas.

NEW ORLEANS U.S. oil producer Devon Energy Corp said on Monday it was looking to sell even more assets than previously announced in order to focus its portfolio on three shale regions.

Papa says drillers in two major shale regions have burned through their best assets, and shareholders are pressuring companies to spend less money.

EQT's purchase of Rice would significantly add to its assets in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions, which account for much of the growth in U.S. natural gas production.

The acquisition extends EQT's footprint in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions.

The deal gives Marathon more exposure to U.S. shale, thanks to Andeavor's existing logistics and terminal operations in Texas and North Dakota shale regions.

The Montney shale region in northeastern British Columbia contains trillions of cubic feet of natural gas and is one of the main sources of supply for a handful of liquefied natural gas plants planned in the province.

Even the argument over fracking in Ohio's oil shale region plays to Romney, although the Obama administration has made only the subtlest moves against oil shale fracking.

Until now, that crude has largely been from the Bakken shale region of North Dakota.

They say it would change the nature of the landscape from rural to industrial and would detract from heritage tourism in the Marcellus shale region.

Increased water use in the rapidly growing oil industry in North Dakota's Bakken oil shale region, or play, is surprisingly due not only to oil well development but also to people, according to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.

This new method is what has been propelling the gas industry in the Marcellus shale region, an area that spans from Lake Erie to West Virginia and Kentucky.

At the premiere of Fox's antifracking sequel on Sunday, a batch of ticket holders — mostly landowners from the Marcellus shale region who support gas drilling, but including McAleer — was blocked from entering the theater (see the Artsbeat blog post for Tribeca's dubious explanation).

For example, a new EIA report highlights key project proposals to transport natural gas from the Utica shale region, which are now before federal officials.

The Democratic governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, announced this week that he favors construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to bring crude from the Canadian oil sands and our own Bakken shale region to refineries along the Gulf Coast.

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.

The Shale Innovation Project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Ohio University Russ College of Engineering and Technology, the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs and the College of Arts and Sciences examining the impact of shale development on businesses and communities in Ohio's shale region.

According to a report released by the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, oil and natural gas projects related to the Marcellus shale region from 2008 through the first half of 2014 were responsible for more than 72 million man hours of direct and indirect labor construction.

In February 2016, the University of Cincinnati completed a three - year study in which researchers examined water samples three to four times per year from 23 wells in the Utica shale region.

Not exact matches

The February 2016 map shows a big increase in unemployment in shale - heavy regions, reflecting the prior year of falling oil prices.

The deal announced Wednesday will merge Rice Midstream Partners with EQT Midstream Partners, both of which are focused on the Appalachian region, the epicenter of the U.S. shale gas boom.

But the council itself voted June 29 to reject the application by shale gas explorer Cuadrilla Resources to drill four wells in the region and to use fracking to test their ability to produce gas.

Output from major shale oil regions will grow by 131,000 barrels a day in April, the Department of Energy predicts.»

Although the Permian has been gushing crude since the 1920s, its multiple layers of oil - soaked shale remained largely untapped until the last several years, when intensive drilling and fracturing techniques perfected in other U.S. Shale regions were adopted.

Natural gas producers in the US Southeast are beginning to yield dividends from a bid to reverse declining production in one of the region's seemingly forgotten shale plays.

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.

The Southern Tier's outlook already had been dimmed by the Cuomo administration's December 2014 decision to block shale gas production using hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale region.

The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.

Indeed, a shortage of accessible natural gas threatens to cause more manufacturing losses in the region, where the state has banned shale gas production via high - pressure hydraulic hydrofracturing.

Meantime, thousands of shale gas wells have been drilled in Pennsylvania and other states in the gas - rich Marcellus Shale region.

Researchers analyzed the levels of various trace elements in hundreds of samples of carbon - rich shales that had been deposited in oxygen - poor regions of the ocean surrounding ancient continents during the past 3.5 billion years.

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

The nation's massive shale and tight gas reservoirs are spread across the Northeast; in the upper Midwest; under Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas; and north into the Rocky Mountain region.

He has seen similar trends in the Marcellus shale natural - gas region in Pennsylvania (see report).

These and other types of region - specific scenarios are similar to what other states and countries could encounter when or if they also develop shale gas reserves.

The researchers considered areas already known to be rich in shale gas, in addition to regions likely to yield future production.

Amy Townsend - Small, the lead researcher for GRO and a UC assistant professor of geology, says the UC study is unique in comparison with studies on water wells in other shale - rich areas of the U.S. where fracking is taking place — such as the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania.

U.S. oil producers, especially in shale plays across the region, are likely crossing their fingers t...

Faster sea floor spreading, presumably associated with more volcanic activity at subduction zones, and / or other increases in volcanic activity or geologic outgassing, or faster oxidation of exposed fossil organic C (as in shales)-- greater geologic CO2 emissions (I think another way of looking at the inorganic part is that any given region of sea floor has less time to accumulate carbonate minerals from chemical weathering, so that C reservoir could shrink while others, including the atmosphere, can grow).

As seen in this map, shale plays exist in distinct regions throughout the country, due to their specific geologic composition.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

For example, if one models the cretaceous period, one should better be able to identify the regions where oil shale will have formed.

Ruffalo, who lives near the Delaware River in the upstate New York region that was targeted for shale gas drilling, is one of many prominent public figures who pressed Cuomo long and hard to ban hydraulic fracturing, popularly known as fracking.

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.

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.