Sentences with phrase «well drilling industry»

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Companies in this industry lease out equipment for activities related to air, sea, and rail transport, as well as construction of highways, roads, tunnels, bridges, and oil drilling.
The faster oil services firms and oil exploration companies adopt digitalization, the more data they generate with every well they drill and every digital map of oil resources they create — but that data is now the subject of hot debate as the oil industry tries to figure out who owns that data.
As oil prices drop, related industries such as drilling wells follow.
An April report from the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers revealed that the oil and gas industry had seen a 62 percent drop in capital investment, and a drop of 66 percent in the amount of new oil wells drilled over the last two years.
Their Colorado assets are among the most productive in U.S. onshore drilling, showing some of the best full cycle cash - on - cash returns in the E&P industry.
UK chemical industry welcomes Cuadrilla's announcement to seek planning approval to drill test wells in Lancashire.
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.
He says Cuomo's Department of Environmental Conservation needs to take historic resources into account when it finally issues well drilling permits, to determine when the number of wells reaches a tipping point, and then place limits if the concentration of industry will damage a region's historical character.
«During the 1940s and 1950s, the growth of populations and the expansion of industry meant many more farmers were drilling wells, particularly in the High Plains,» said Leonard Konikow, a research hydrologist with USGS.
Tens of thousands of gas wells are expected to be drilled in the coming decade, according to energy industry and U.S. government estimates, and much of that gas will be delivered to electric utilities as a cleaner substitute for burning coal.
Some of the findings in the report also directly contradict longstanding arguments by the drilling industry for why the fracking process is safe: that hydrologic pressure would naturally force fluids down, not up; that deep geologic layers provide a watertight barrier preventing the movement of chemicals towards the surface; and that the problems with the cement and steel barriers around gas wells aren't connected to fracking.
«In our opinion, regulators should require industry to undergo this kind of numerical modeling testing prior to drilling to better estimate the potential hazard beforehand,» continues Jeoung Seok Yoon.
Such declines are far higher than for conventional wells, effectively meaning the industry must drill furiously just to stand still.
The industry, by and large, has regarded the studies done to date — a number of which claim to have found higher rates of illness among residents living close to drilling wells — as largely anecdotal and less than convincing.
To encourage better drilling practices, the Houston Advanced Research Center — a consortium supported by government, foundations, and private industry — launched the Environmentally Friendly Drilling Scorecard at the end of ladrilling practices, the Houston Advanced Research Center — a consortium supported by government, foundations, and private industry — launched the Environmentally Friendly Drilling Scorecard at the end of laDrilling Scorecard at the end of last year.
«They simply have a more comprehensive design and richer data,» says LaCoste, who says TD is among the best at «drilling down into industries and sectors.»
It appears that the primary reason for the spin - off was that Pride wanted to exit the struggling shallow water drilling business in the GOM and increase its focus on the floating and deep water drilling segments where Pride «believes the best long - term growth prospects reside in the offshore industry
He mainly pointed his camera at ecosystems and human communities in harm's way, but sometimes focused on the fossil fuel industry — most notably in capturing the first images of Shell's (ultimately ill - fated) Arctic oil rig Kulluk as it prepared to drill an exploratory oil well in the Beaufort Sea in 2012.
But I kept hearing that it was easier in the gas and oil industry to get the green light from top executives for drilling new wells than fixing old ones, and industry lobbyists in Washington have relentlessly fought stricter oversight.
When it comes to drilling offshore, my administration approved more than two permits last year for every new well that the industry started to drill.
To be clear: you are advocating drilling wells in massive numbers in New York which the industry itself admits will leak into groundwater aquifers.
For instance, the industry has thousands of water test results from before and after wells were drilled that it does not share with independent scientists.
Fox finds himself defending the shot he uses in Gasland of Mike Markham lighting his water on fire — something the industry and often regulators claim is not related to gas wells, but a «naturally occurring» phenomenon that predates drilling.
«The environmental community will be watching closely to assure that industry does not side - step environmental review by conducting an onslaught of vertical drilling and then converting those vertical wells to horizontal wells
BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster indicates that the best efforts of the oil industry are incapable of preventing environmental calamities from offshore drilling.
As I first wrote with Clifford Krauss in 2009, the industry's tendency to drill new wells rather than tighten up old ones is both a pollution problem and a waste of a valuable fuel.
«When it comes to climate action, Governor Brown talks a good game, but he has bent over backwards for the oil and gas industry and refused to protect communities from drilling and fracking,» said Mark Schlosberg, organizing co-director at Food and Water Watch.
And nobody knows better than the oil industry, which continues to drill wells at record depths as part of everyday oil exploration.
The problem is that treating oil and gas waste from fracked wells remains particularly tricky because the industry is still allowed to keep secret information about which chemicals drillers use when injecting fluids to crack open shale formations to release oil and gas.
I work in the «evil oil industry» and the entire industry runs on the API or American Petroleum Institute standards, from wellhead to well casing to drilling fluids.
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What difference would it make to the industries, which are already well advanced in progress toward drilling for Arctic gas?
The Marcellus industry, now made up of 67 companies — ranging from the world's largest to some of the smallest energy players — has already drilled about 1,100 wells this year.
That puts producers on track to drill somewhat less than the 1,700 wells they had aimed to drill in Pennsylvania this year, a slowdown certainly due to tough economic factors roiling the industry.
However, those solutions are in fact real and have been proven to provide the energy needed to power our economy, and, they, or at least fossil fuel technology, was developed largely without government assistance — there was no tax code available to to abuse when Rockefeller drilled his first well and built his first refinery, and the government of the mid to late 1800s was not writing checks to private industry for anything with the possible exception of defense related expenditures.
The shale industry specifically benefits from longer horizontal sections, better targeting of sweet spots and multi-pad drilling, which leads to optimizing logistics.
The ability to recover those costs, similar to research and development deductions used by other industries, is key to maintaining cash flow that helps companies drill more wells.
Digitalisation of the oil industry enables better targeting of drilling, higher ultimate recovery rates as well as lower outage rates and higher capacity utilisation.
Between the loss of jobs in the tourism and fishing industries around the Gulf, as well as those lost from the moratorium on offshore drilling, at least one analyst says that one million people will be out of work as a result of the spill.
the claim that the industry has been fracking for 60 years is true but grossly misleading as the current practice involving horizontal drilling and in general aggressive techniques to extract gas from marginal resources only dates back to the 1990s; rather than millions of well using fracking, current practice has only been tested over a few tens of thousands of wells
This program has developed many jointly funded projects with industry on reservoir characterization and secondary and tertiary hydrocarbon - recovery schemes, as well as cooperative drilling ventures that permit access to samples and data that would not be possible without industrial liaison (National Research Council, 1996b).
The industry's spill response plan assumes that an emergency relief well can be drilled faster than an exploratory well.
In the search for water, the Yemeni government has drilled test wells in the basin that are 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) deep — depths normally associated with the oil industry — but they have failed to find water.
Aside from the fact that Fracking (it really is the entire gas drilling industry, as wastewater wells are used in all cases.
As the oil drilling industry grows, the injury and death rate increases as well.
Represented gas industry worker who fell on ice in the winter in the evening at a well site on State Park land in Clinton County, PA. suffering a compound ankle fracture requiring internal fixation with screws in a claim Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Precision Drilling Corporation...
Expert evidence was wide ranging, including offshore engineering and construction issues, the safe working practices of the offshore industry and the insurances available in the market to cover offshore construction projects and well drilling.
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Throughout my experience as a Mudlogging professional, I have successfully provided detailed well log records of borehole examinations of rock, sediment, and mud, and producing information on fluid content of the borehole drilling operations In addition, I helped ensure that each company's daily operational aspects were conducted in a highly professional manner and adhered to corporate standards, industry regulations, professional ethics, and applicable laws.
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