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Monitoring for Hydraulic Fracturing, sub topics Setting the Baseline and Ongoing Monitoring

British Water in collaboration with Cranfield University are pleased to announce the workshop series: Monitoring for Hydraulic Fracturing, sub topics Setting the Baseline and Ongoing Monitoring If you want to discuss recent developments within the environmental and process control monitoring applicable to Hydraulic Fracturing arena, help identify current challenges, and debate the ...

Jul. 27, 2016

By Environmental Technology Publications Limited

Shell opens the books on Shale Oil and Gas operations

Shell Oil has made its Global Onshore Tight/Shale Oil and Gas Operating Principles available to the public with examples of how the company delivers them. The move is intended to address public concern about tight/shale oil and gas development - especially regarding hydraulic fracturing - encourage feedback and challenge from our stakeholders, and drive continuous improvement. Shell says it has ...

Jun. 29, 2011

By GLOBE SERIES

France upholds ban on hydraulic fracturing

France's constitutional council upheld a ban on the energy extraction process known as fracking on Friday, two days after the European Parliament voted to require full environmental reports from companies that want to establish hydraulic fracturing sites. The decision comes the same day the International Energy Agency predicted the United States would overtake Russia next year to become the ...

Oct. 14, 2013

By Associated Press

Comments sought on recommendations from independent experts on shale gas and fracking

DECC will today publish an independent expert report recommending measures to mitigate the risks of seismic tremors from hydraulic fracturing - and is inviting public comment on its recommendations. An effective monitoring system and a traffic light control regime are among measures recommended by the report, which has reviewed a series of studies commissioned by Cuadrilla, and confirms that ...

Apr. 17, 2012

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

NETL Releases Hydraulic Fracturing Study

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has released a technical report on the results of a limited field study that monitored a hydraulic fracturing operation in Greene County, PA for upward fracture growth out of the target zone and upward gas and fluid migration. Results indicate that under the conditions of this study, for this specific location, ...

Sep. 15, 2014

By US Department of Energy

EPA selects sites in Louisiana and Texas for national study on hydraulic fracturing

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, in keeping with the Administration’s focus on ensuring that domestic resources are leveraged safely and responsibly, announced the next steps in its congressionally mandated hydraulic fracturing study. EPA has identified seven case studies to help inform the assessment of potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water ...

Jun. 23, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Energy Department Hosts FORGE Webinar and Resource Reporting Methodology Workshop at the Upcoming National Geothermal Summit, August 4-5

Next week, at the Geothermal Energy Association’s (GEA) National Geothermal Summit in Reno, Nevada, the Energy Department invites the geothermal community to participate in the following two meetings prior to the official start of the GEA Summit: U.S. Reporting Methodologies for Geothermal Energy Monday, August 4, 2014 3:00 – 5:30 PM MT Room 9/10, Grand Sierra Resort Reno, Nevada ...

Jul. 29, 2014

By US Department of Energy

EPA identifies Pennsylvania sites for national study on hydraulic fracturing

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, in keeping with the Administration’s focus on ensuring that domestic resources are leveraged safely and responsibly, announced the next steps in its congressionally mandated hydraulic fracturing study. EPA has identified seven case studies to help inform the assessment of potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water ...

Jun. 23, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA selects Colorado, North Dakota sites as case study locations for national hydraulic fracturing study

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, in keeping with the Administration’s focus on ensuring that domestic resources are leveraged safely and responsibly, announced the next steps in its congressionally mandated hydraulic fracturing study. EPA has identified seven case studies to help inform the assessment of potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water ...

Jun. 23, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA identifies case studies for hydraulic fracturing study / agency to conduct field work in various regions of the country starting this summer

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, in keeping with the Administration’s focus on ensuring that domestic resources are leveraged safely and responsibly, announced the next steps in its congressionally mandated hydraulic fracturing study. EPA has identified seven case studies to help inform the assessment of potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water ...

Jun. 23, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

DOE study: Fracking chemicals didn`t taint water

A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy told The Associated Press. After a year of monitoring, the researchers found that the chemical-laced fluids used to free gas trapped deep below the ...

Jul. 22, 2013

By Associated Press

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