Sentences with phrase «well drilling permits»

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.

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HARDMAN Resources NL plans to drill the Colom - bo 1 gas exploration well, in the Italian Fiume Tevere permit, in October this year.

But companies need to continuously drill new wells to fuel this growth, which requires companies to obtain drilling permits from the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC).

A subsidiary of an Italian energy company has received a federal permit to drill the first oil exploration wells in U.S. Arctic waters in two years.

«The issuance of the drilling permit and plans for Phase 1 exploration drilling program at Copper Duke is a milestone for the company as it represents the beginning of testing of one of the world's best undrilled gold - copper porphyry targets,» said Core Gold CEO Keith Piggott.

Jennings, councillor of Great Bend Borough, said there were 950 well permits and 400 drills in Susquehanna County.

New York hasn't issued permits for shale gas wells using horizontal drilling and fracking since it began its review of the controversial technology in 2008.

One day after President Barack Obama touted hydrofracking of natural gas as a bridge fuel, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's environmental commissioner says it's extremely unlikely that permits for drilling wells will be issued in the next year.

Homebuilders found they could circumvent limits on groundwater pumping for large residential developments by building just a few homes at a time, because single homes could drill new water wells without a permit.

When Antero Resources announced plans in the spring of 2009 to drill 200 more wells in Battlement Mesa, a golf - course community almost within sight of Wallace - Babb's old home, about 400 residents petitioned the county to study the potential health impacts before they permitted the drilling.

She then compared birth weights of babies born in areas of Pennsylvania where a well had been permitted but never drilled and areas where wells had been drilled.

Seismic surveys must be undertaken, delineation wells must be drilled, government permits must be obtained, environmental regulations must be adhered to, and complex production facilities must be engineered and installed.

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.

«In the last four years, the Bureau of Land Management has issued 28,776 permits to drill on public land; yet, in that same time, 18,954 wells were actually drilled.

And we've announced that no permits for drilling new wells will go forward until the 30 - day safety and environmental review that I requested is completed.

Wells can be permitted and drilled quickly, and with horizontal drilling a single well has access to a large area of potential gas reserves.

But just four days later, he directly undermined his own message, when his administration issued the final permit allowing Shell Oil to drill in the Arctic, despite the administration's own assessment that the chances of a significant oil spill in the area were 75 % — not to mention that a good deal of existing known oil reserves must be left in the ground to protect against global warming.

They proposed that Colorado not issue any new permits for oil and gas drilling «unless the best available science demonstrates, and an independent third party organization confirms, that drilling can occur in a manner that does not cumulatively, with other actions, impair Colorado's atmosphere, water, wildlife, and land resources, does not adversely impact human health and does not contribute to climate change.»

Key state regulations include: Review and approval of permits; well design, location and spacing; drilling operations; water management and disposal; air emissions; wildlife impacts; surface disturbance; worker health and safety; and inspection and enforcement of day - to - day oil and gas operations.

Ohio approved 2,087 Utica shale permits, of which, 1,648 Utica wells have been drilled and 1,119 Utica wells are producing.

The amount of water required to drill all 2916 of the Marcellus wells permitted in Pennsylvania in the first 11 months of 2010 would equal the amount of drinking water used by just one city, Pittsburgh, during the same period, says environmental engineering professor Jeanne VanBriesen, the study's lead author.

The bill requires that any company seeking a drilling permit must first guarantee that it could prevent any future blowouts; promptly stop any blowout, even if the blowout preventers and other measures fail; and drill a relief well within 90 days of any blowout.

Then the EPA permitted Gelman's firm to drill a well and inject it deep into bedrock.

There is no reason to permit hundreds of new groundwater wells to be drilled in the Mojave Desert.

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).