Sentences with phrase «shale rock»

In the process of fracking, the «toxic soup» of chemicals used to break apart shale rock can leach into underground aquifers, wells and other drinking sources, contaminating the water lines that flow into hundreds or thousands of local businesses and homes.

Furthermore, chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, which involves cracking shale rock deep underground to extract oil and gas, can contaminate groundwater resources [137,138,139].

Hydraulic fracturing sends «huge volumes of toxic fluids» deep underground at high pressure, to fracture shale rock and release natural gas, Food & Water Watch claims.

Yet even if Cuadrilla's bounty is smaller than it hopes, the earth is riddled with shale rock; its exploitation may check the upward pressure on prices, weakening the economic case for reducing dependence on hydrocarbons.

An inquiry by the Energy and Climate Change committee concluded that fracking, the process by which gas is extracted from shale rock, poses no risk to underground water supplies as long as drilling wells are properly constructed.»

Mr. Mitchell will be honored for innovating the technological breakthrough that made the economical extraction of natural gas from shale rock formations possible.

«There are coal residues mixed with shale rock that's been buried for millennia, trace metals, pyrite, all these salts weathering out of the rock.

The day prior Quebec's environmental review board released a report finding that there are «too many potential negative consequences to the environment and to society from extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits along the St. Lawrence River.»

In some parts of the United States, extracting natural gas from shale rock has a negative effect both below and above ground.

The recent low prices for natural gas and oil appear likely to continue for at least decades and possibly even longer due to the new technology for extracting natural gas and oil from shale rock.

Fracking, in which millions of gallons of chemically treated water and sand are forced underground to break shale rock and free trapped gas, has lowered energy prices, created jobs, and enhanced national security, according to a task force formed by President Barack Obama's Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

«Fracking,» a violent process that dislodges gas deposits from shale rock formations, is known to contaminate drinking water, pollute the air, and cause earthquakes.

Jimmy Carter's subsidized oil from shale rock, ancient solar panels on the roof, and synthetic gas from coal plants just demonstration projects by comparison.

One reason is recent advances in production — particularly in the oil and natural gas found in shale rock formations.

And by the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of thirty years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock — reminding us that Government support is critical in helping businesses get new energy ideas off the ground.

In the early 1980s, Mitchell read a scholarly article saying that it might be possible to extract commercial gas from shale rock.

Since 2011, Alex Trembath, a tireless and talented energy analyst at nonprofit The Breakthrough Institute, has been digging into the complicated history of public and private initiatives and investments that unlocked the vast gas and oil resource contained in layers of shale rock.

The equipped Toyo tires easily conquered the Sand, snow, and rough shale rock that cut through some of our other competitors tires.

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

The hydraulic fracturing process — pushing gallons upon gallons of chemical - laden water into shale rock in order to bubble up natural gas — takes place deep in the ground, thousands of feet below the earth's surface and thousands of feet below the shallow aquifers that provide drinking water.

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

The French parliament voted on June 30 to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the web sites of Le Monde and other French media reported.The bill had already passed the National Assembly, the country's lower chamber, on June 21, and on June 30 a Senate vote of 176 to 151 made France the first country to enact such a ban, just as New York State is preparing to lift a moratorium on the same method.The vote was divided along party lines, with the majority conservative party voting in favor and the opposition voting against the bill, according to Le Monde.

The scientists estimated oxygen levels by analyzing iron found in shale rock, which was once mud on ancient seafloors.

The research also found that fracking operations in shale rock generally had their furthest detected microseismic events at greater distances than those in coal and sandstone rocks.

Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, coupled with horizontal drilling, has unlocked large gas deposits in shale rock, which had been long recognized but weren't profitable to extract until about a decade ago.

The extraordinary growth in fracking — the hydraulic fracturing of deeply buried shale rock to extract natural gas — has transformed the United States over the past 15 years, boosting energy stocks, cutting pollution from conventional coal - power plants, and creating new jobs.

That's when gas companies blast a concoction of water, sand and chemicals underground to split shale rock and release natural gas.

There is no technical issue with fracking, the controversial technique of fracturing shale rock with high - pressure, chemically treated water to release natural gas.

Drilling for natural gas is booming in Pennsylvania — thanks to fracturing shale rock with a water and chemical cocktail paired with the ability to drill in any direction.

«By the way, it was public research dollars, over the course of 30 years, that helped develop the technologies to extract all this natural gas out of shale rock,» Obama noted at one point in his speech.

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

Hydrofracking is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock by blasting a mix of water and chemicals at high pressure into underground wells.

Last summer Gov. Andrew Cuomo lifted the official moratorium on the controversial drilling technique, which involves shooting a high pressure mixture of water and chemicals into the shale rock deep below the Earth's surface.

Since 2008, when hydrofracking became a matter of public debate in New York, we have counseled a patient, responsible, balanced and science - based approach to the controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock.

Once the shale rock formations are injected with water and chemicals, it is the proppant (normally treated sand) that keeps the newly formed cracks open after they are made in the rock.

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.

June 30 2011: The French parliament voted to ban the controversial technique for extracting natural gas from shale rock deposits known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.

And Hamm would know, because Continental Resources was a pioneer in making oil from shale rock profitable in North Dakota.

The oil we're now pulling out of the ground in North America, whether from the oil sands or shale rock in North Dakota, is tough to get at.

The national government in London supports hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to release gas from shale rock, and so did the planning staff of the Lancashire County Council.

Rig hands thread together drilling pipe at a hydraulic fracturing site owned by EQT Corp. located atop the Marcellus shale rock formation in Washington Township, Pennsylvania.

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.

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.

The liquids create fissures that release the natural gas in the shale rock.

The question of whether other countries can replicate North America's success in drilling in shale rocks has captivated geologists and diplomats.

The results indicated there was a one per cent chance that fractures from fracking activity could extend horizontally beyond 895m in shale rocks.

The figures drawn in shale rocks are between 15 cm and 180 cm, but most are between 40 - 50 cm and represent animals: horses and bovines.

The physical existence of oil and gas in shale rocks was known but its development was believed to be uneconomic and it was therefore excluded from the projections.

Not exact matches

More bountiful still is oil shale, a type of heavy oil that lies between layers of rocks like North Dakota's shale - oil but requires oilsand - like extraction and upgrading techniques.

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.