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under threat from natural gas development. They include the Upper Delaware, Susquehanna, Monongahela, and Hoback Rivers. A PNAS study found that drinking wells near the Marcellus Shale contained 17 times as much methane as those half a mile away. Part of the problem is that natural gas development enjoys exemptions from keystone environmental laws, such as the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Clean Water Act. Earthquakes on the rise While it is widely suspected that natural gas fracking pollutes…

Oil and Gas Association gives the diameter of the hole at 12.25 inches (31 centimeters). This well is the most important medium for hydraulic fracturing. When the well is deep enough, it will turn and become horizontal, “that horizontal section may span 1,000 to 6,000 feet, or 305 to 1,829 meters” (How Hydraulic Fracking…

Coal seam gas (CSG), also known as coal bed methane (CBM), is a naturally occurring methane gas found in most coal seams. The extraction of CSG involves drilling wells into the coal seams and bringing water from the seams to the surface. This process reduces the pressure in the seams and allows the gas to be released from pores (Lacey and Lamont, 2014). The growing environmental and health risks associated with coal seam gas fracking production has the potential to generate considerable gas…

projects (investment loans) (London, Shandra, and Shircliff 1). These investment loans require nations to reduce government spending, loosen government regulations, cut corporate taxes, and privatize government assets while increasing agricultural and natural resource exports, while cutting unfavorable spending for conservation (London, Shandra, and Shircliff 2). This creates a lack of environmental regulations, which allows the core to enact detrimental environmental practices in the periphery,…

Hydraulic Fracturing for oil and natural gas is possibly one of the most misunderstood parts of drilling around. The term itself is almost as bad for some as racial slanders. Countries have banned the process and even some states such as Colorado have placed embargos on the process until more research is available. Environmental groups storm capitals at the sound of the word demanding more regulations. What many don’t realize is that the oil business has been using the same process for 70 years…

Egoli is a company that is involved in the oil and gas industry. Its main operations involve upstream activities. As consultants the objective of the following report is to highlight certain issues and provide solutions to which these issues can be resolved. The fields that will be discussed includes: entrepreneurship and business, business strategy, business risk and fraud and IT in businesses. The report is prioritized and may not include every issue or problem. Business and Entrepreneurship…

obtain energy as affluence may be related closely to more efficient use of a wider variety of energy sources as it is to total energy consumption now. Our country South Africa, like all other countries is more reliant on fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas). Approximately 89% of South African energy supply is from fossil…

fracking, is the process of drilling and injecting fluid into the earth’s surface at high pressures in order to fracture the clastic sedimentary rock or shale rock surface. Fracturing the shale rock releases the natural gas, petroleum, or water that could be trapped inside these underground natural reservoirs. The wells are drilled vertically into the earth’s surface for hundreds or thousands of feet and include horizontal or directional extensions to allow for further reach. Pipes encased with…

The boom has not only exponentially increased employment but it has also enhanced salaries. North Dakota leads the nation with the lowest level of unemployment and has decreased the dependence on the government for sustenance. North Dakota oil fields have grown exceptionally and it has recently become the second largest producer of oil in the United States. This state has now become self sufficient in regards to oil (Rocco 1). The economy has grown considerably, it was just about five years ago…

Hydraulic fracturing is basically drilling into large shale fields, coal bed seams, tight sands containing gas deposits that have been trapped in the rock. Hydraulic fracturing requires fracking fluids, which are chemical cocktails consisting of five hundred ninety-six chemicals, some of which chemicals are neurotoxins and carcinogens…