Posts treating: "wells"
Tuesday, 31 May 2016
On May 12 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its final rule that aims to reduce emissions from new and modified oil and natural gas facilities: New Source Performance Standards for methane and volatile organic compounds (VOC). At the same time EPA announced its plan to apply the rule to existing wells and facilities, but first EPA needs additional information about the size and scope of the oil and natural gas industry as well as emissions data. A planned Information [...]
Despite the plentiful commercials on cable networks touting clean natural gas, there is more to the story. Methane emissions have noticeably increased in the U.S. according to research published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters. There has been a lot of talk recently about how much natural gas escapes from fracking wells and the huge leak in Southern California has been national news for over two months. Methane is
I'm now thinking that Monday's 4.7 was just a leftover from the intense activity of last week. That truly was the first signal of a large quake. Looks like there isn't a second signal. That activity really shook things up a lot so we can expect a period of quiet.
During that time, all the wells they closed will open up again, and inject like mad. Natural gas prices have tanked due to El
I won't make a penny, but I'm reasonably certain that we'll have a full M7 sequence in Oklahoma soon enough. They open all their closed wells after a week. All those involved in this will win the Darwin Awards Champions of the Decade. Nobody will come close.
Who are the other big money winners?
The busgus - when the midwest is destroyed, they'll get huge amounts of money for their
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Texas has closed the book on how a set of wells could turn earthquakes on and off in Azle. I know they were injecting gas frack waste for a while (in my head). But they can never admit it.
Let's pretend they were honest, and everybody promised not to sue (Ha!). Then we would conclusive proof that it is stress corrosion that caused all these New Madrid-type earthquakes. The cure
Moretrench was contacted by NYCDEP after turbid water was noticed seeping from the toe of their Cannonsville Reservoir Dam, in the Catskill Mountains. The problem was determined to be related to an exploratory borehole conducted for a hydroelectric plant project that intercepted an artesian aquifer in the underlying glacial till. Moretrench first installed a series of wells to dewater the artesian unit using the Sonic drilling method. Once the artesian aquifer was depressurized, the owner [...]
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That's it, somehow I was hoping that someone in Texas would come clean on how they made earthquakes turn on and off. They took these wells that were re-injecting deep brine for years, added something to the mix, and turned on earthquakes. They have now promised not to do it again, and we'll never know.
You and I know what it is, and we don't have to go into it. Suffice to say
The group at Fern Valley. Gaging Wilkin Run and measuring water levels in wells. We are fortunate to be able to monitor the streamflow, climate and geomorphic changes along Wilkin Run. Thanks again to Betty and David Wilkin for donating Fern Valley to the College. Leo examining the Ice Contact stratified drift of the terminal
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The Bureau of Land Management issued rules last week for hydraulic fracturing on Federal and Indian lands. This is mainly aimed at all the wells being drilled into shales for oil and gas. There is no shale oil or shale gas development in Arizona, and the potential has been generally viewed as minor. All of the oil and gas production in Arizona is from a small number of wells (~16) on
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The traffic light system in Oklahoma seems to be working. I think the earthquake activity has gone down a fair bit, but we are due for another round of 4+'s. When that happens most of these wells will have to close. I suspect that has already happened closer to OK City. Oh well, on to
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Wow, and I thought they would get to 5's at least. The earthquake mechanism has advanced to the point where 4's are an every-day occurrence. I didn't think they would take action on those. That would explain why earthquakes have moved further north. They might not be shutting down a lot of wells, but nobody is going to inject frack waste where there has been an M4. These
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“There’s a hysteria that needs to be brought back to reality that these [quakes] are light and will not cause any harm,” Brown said, according to local news reports.
“An earthquake that was sitting there waiting goes kaboing. Then things shake,”
Or officials could reduce volumes at several “monster” wells, with names such as “Deep Throat” and “Flower Power,” that scientists say may
Exploration for helium in Arizona heated up this year with two wells drilled in the Holbrook area where it was produced for decades. [Right, AZGS map of helium fields in Arizona] One of our correspondents passed along a new job posting for a Phoenix-based geologist to help with helium exploration in the region.
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A 10 inch hollow stem auger grazed a packed subway car on the NY MTA's F line last week scratching the side of the train and breaking windows. Fortunately there were no injuries. I think the pictures say it all! The auger belonged to a contractor installing dewatering wells. But as one MTA source quoted in the Post put it: 'Somebody made a mistake; maybe a surveyor or a field engineer... They drilled into the street but didn’t realize they were right over the F train tunnel. [...]
Developments in drilling methods and technology are leading to efficiency gains for oil and natural gas producers. For example, “pad” drilling techniques allow rig operators to drill groups of wells more efficiently, because improved rig mobility reduces the time it takes to move from one well location to the next, while reducing the overall surface
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Ten years ago, hydraulic fracturing barely existed. Today 45,000 fracked wells produce natural gas, providing energy for millions of homes and businesses, and nearly a quarter of the nation’s electricity. But scientists are far behind in understanding how this boom affects people near wells. Geochemists Beizhan Yan and James Ross of Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are trying to fill in this
thespectrum.com With wells at Quichapa Lake having dropped approximately 75 feet since 1990, officials in Cedar City and Central Iron County Water Conservancy District are planning for additional water resources they can develop in the near future with the hopes of taking stress off the aquifer that geologists insist is being over-mined. READ
“Companies hoping the Utica Shale would be the next big liquids play could be in for a disappointment as many wells are proving to be a source of dry gas.” Quote from the SNL article. Related: What is the Utica