Sentences with phrase «unconventional oil and gas»
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The processes used for unconventional oil and gas development are different from those used in existing European onshore and offshore oil and gas fields, which will provide further opportunities for employers and contractors with the right expertise, or willing to retrain.
«Unconventional oil and gas, we'll see more work in coal - bed methane and we're doing a lot more work in the wind - power area.
It warns that the targets will remain far out of reach so long with continued exploitation of fossil fuels, such as coal burning for electricity and continued exploitation of unconventional oil and gas.
The bottom line is that Keystone is a gateway to a huge pool of carbon - intensive fuel most of which must be left in the ground — along with most of the world's coal and unconventional oil and gas — if humanity is to avoid multiple devastating impacts that may be beyond adaptation.
A 2014 report from the Groundwater Protection Council documented «continuous and significant regulatory improvement by state oil and gas agencies across the county» and concluded «the risk of fracture fluid intrusion into groundwater from the hydraulic fracturing of deeper conventional and unconventional oil and gas zones can be considered very low.»
$ 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 U.S. Chamber of Commerce released the third part of a study, titled «America's New Energy Future: The Unconventional Oil and Gas Revolution and the U.S. Economy» (PDF), which opposes regulation to shale energy production (hydraulic fracturing).
Most of the remaining fossil fuel carbon is in coal and unconventional oil and gas.
The ratio of energy returned on energy invested (EROEI) for fossil energy production has tended to fall as high - quality deposits of oil, coal, and natural gas are depleted, and as society relies more on unconventional oil and gas that require more energy for extraction, and on coal that is more deeply buried or that is of lower energy content.
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A study by the economic research firm IHS found that unconventional oil and gas activity generated $ 61 billion in federal and state revenues in 2012, and estimates this will increase to $ 91 billion in 2015 and $ 111 billion in 2020.
It should be obvious to all, including politicians, that the oil price is stubbornly stuck above $ 100 per barrel and talk of an impending unconventional oil and gas bonanzas in the USA and other places has not produced any change in the cost of a barrel of society's hemoglobin.
He said: «If we mean to burn all the coal and any appreciable percentage of the tar sands, or other unconventional oil and gas then we're cooked.
The last decade has seen an explosion in unconventional oil and gas drilling, as easy - to - extract hydrocarbons have become harder to find.
After over six years of campaigning against fracking by Friends of the Earth Scotland and local communities, the Scottish government announced on 3 October to effectively ban unconventional oil and gas extraction - in short: fracking — in the whole country.
Friends of the Earth France continues to campaign against dirty fossil fuels — especially unconventional oil and gas.
A new U.S. Geological Survey study shows that unconventional oil and gas production in some areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas is not currently a significant source of methane or benzene to drinking water wells.
The huge and unpredicted increase in the production of unconventional oil and gas resources in North America in just a few years has shown what we can do to exploit resources once we are motivated.
-- May 31, 2017, USGS Study: Unconventional Oil and Gas Production Not Currently Affecting Drinking Water Quality
Mexico, the fifth - largest methane emitter in the world in 2015, published regulations in 2016 for methane emissions in its upstream oil and gas operations, and addressed methane in recently published guidelines for unconventional oil and gas development.
Between 1978 and 2007, the Energy Department spent $ 24 billion on fossil energy research that led to the fracking revolution — including $ 10 billion in tax credit (US Code Section 29) for unconventional oil and gas drilling.
Session Description: Improved capabilities for horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past decade led to significant increases in unconventional oil and gas production in several regions of the United States.
The tool also is applicable to problems in geothermal energy, carbon sequestration, unconventional oil and gas reserves and nuclear explosion monitoring.
When hydraulic fracturing or «fracking» to access unconventional oil and gas reserves was a hot topic in the fossil fuel industry, Ryerson was tapped to lead a team to develop GEOS — a dynamic computational rock mechanics and hydrologic tool — that can model facture propagation, resulting seismic signals and pressure - driven fluid flow through a rock mass.
This rapid proliferation of unconventional oil and gas recovery has also resulted in millions of gallons of highly brackish wastewater, which comes up with the retrieved oil and gas.
«And, though we designed the fluid for geothermal energy, it could also make unconventional oil and gas recovery more environmentally friendly.»
Oil will still be a premium fuel because we don't have an alternative to transport fuels yet, although the impact of unconventional oil and gas needs to be better understood.
«More data collection and further study in the Bakken and elsewhere are needed to better understand, quantify and minimize water impacts of unconventional oil and gas development in the future.»
Mining projects (37 %) and water impounded behind dams (23 %) are the most commonly reported causes of induced earthquakes, but unconventional oil and gas extraction projects using hydraulic fracturing, are now a frequent addition to the database, said Miles Wilson, a geophysicist at Durham University working on the HiQuake research effort.
Unconventional oil and gas (UOG) operations combine directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» to release natural gas and oil from underground rock.
«Our analysis confirms that this accumulation of radioactivity is derived from the disposal of conventional oil and gas wastewater after 2011, when authorities limited the disposal of unconventional oil and gas wastewater,» said Nancy Lauer, a Nicholas School PhD student who led the study.
The scientists said that the types of rocks being exploited by unconventional oil and gas recovery in the U.S. and Canada can be found all over the world, making the results of this study widely applicable.
Whether an earthquake occurs naturally or as a result of unconventional oil and gas recovery, the destructive power is the same, according to a new study appearing in Science Advances Aug. 2.
Earthquakes in the central U.S. have increased over the past 10 years due to the expansion of unconventional oil and gas operations that discard wastewater by injecting it into the ground.
In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.
That surge has coincided in time and place with the boom in unconventional oil and gas extraction such as hydraulic fracturing, or «fracking,» in which high - pressure fluid is injected into the ground to break up the underlying rock and release trapped gas or oil.
Waters produced from unconventional oil and gas wells typically have radium isotope ratios (radium - 228 to radium - 226) that are different than those from conventional oil and gas operations, he said.
The Trump Administration budget would eliminate funding for research on ecological effects of unconventional oil and gas development.
In 2015, he sat (along with the DUP MP and Brexit campaign manager Jeffrey Donaldson) on the All Party Parliamentary Group on unconventional oil and gas, and later became the vice-chair.
At the same time, we also have a capacity to dramatically increase our supply of unconventional oil and gas, provided we secure new customers and do so before our competitors.
The sanctions have stopped investment in unconventional oil and gas and the Arctic offshore and have targeted key individuals and companies in the oil and gas sector.
«Speaking to members of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, the Scottish Environment Minister Paul Wheelhouse said the ban should be extended «indefinitely» and that «the Scottish government will not support the development of unconventional oil and gas in Scotland.»
Like many junior and intermediate players, though, it has struggled with the transition from conventional to unconventional oil and gas production, and the huge new investments in equipment required.
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Unconventional supplies of oil and gas are increasing around the world, countries like Iran and Mexico are reviving production, and alternative energy sources are becoming more viable.
Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.
Alta Mesa Resources, Inc. is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: AMR, AMRWW) independent exploration and production company focused on the development and acquisition of unconventional oil and natural gas reserves in the eastern portion of the Anadarko Basin referred to as the STACK.
Structured midstream partnership with an oil and gas producer focused on unconventional natural gas exploration, production, and development.
Second, the U.S. will approach energy self - sufficiency as domestic energy demand ceases to grow, due in part to energy efficiency measures, and as new unconventional gas and oil projects cause domestic energy supply to surge.
His research focus is on unconventional fuels, primarily shale gas and tight oil, but also coalbed methane and other unconventional sources, including oil sands, coal gasification and gas hydrates.