Natural gas

Methane gas has numerous uses in its natural gaseous form. It is one of the best fuel sources and due to its abundance it has promising benefits as compared to the oil gases whose prevalence is limited making them more expensive. However, a major hiccup exists in its storage and transportation since the most conveniently used form is its liquefied form. This issue has for limited the volumes transported for the long time since the liquid occupies much more space as it could in a powder form. In…

fuels were created by the Earth millions of years ago while the core and crust were not yet fully separated. Have been used too much and it is damaging the environment us as human beings, need to survive as a species on this planet. The amount of natural resources available to us as consumers is diminishing by the day. The fossil fuels industries produces most of the power and heat throughout the civilized parts of the globe. The big companies making millions off of the demand for energy created…

Although hydraulic fracturing has been in use for oil and natural gas drilling since the early 1900’s, its detrimental effects have only recently been brought to the public’s attention. Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is the use of a pressurized, chemically treated mixture of water and sand to release and extract quantities of natural gas and petroleum from shale rock. This mining process and its toxins are harmful to thousands of people across the nation. Hydraulic fracturing is a dangerous…

It was painful to think that no matter what I did, some species were gone forever and this process was only gradual. I’m currently taking an Economics class. One day my professor wanted to discuss about the incredibly low gas price. He said that the supply is high because of a new technique it has been used to take the oils out of the mantle rocks called “fracking”. As an economist, he could not quite tell if the benefits overcomes the environmental costs of the new technique…

The social tendency can influence significantly on how the company operates and the demand for the products in this industry. For example, there are increasing awareness on more friendly fuels such as natural gas and reducing in the usage of “dirty” fossil fuels such as coal, oil sands, and shale gas. Besides, the cost of labour will increase due to less-willing and smaller workforce caused by the ageing population (Bargorett & Williams, 2014). Different management strategies are used such as…

underground such as rocks, boreholes etc. so, that force open existing fissure and extract oil or gas. Fracking is basically shorthand for hydraulic fracturing, a tube of drilling that gas been used commercially for 65 years. Fracking is so dangerous and it has created very serious circumstances. Chemical used in fracking are toxic. According to nature international journal of science (2011) Extracting gas from shale increases the visibility of this resource. But the health and environment…

Highly trained geologists or geoscientists conduct this survey. The seismic survey determines the estimated reserve in the area, and the best locations to drill. The experts test the area for pre-existing seismic faults, ground water, and oil and gas deposits. The test begins by creating a small shock wave on the surface with either an explosive buried in the ground, or a “stomper” truck that vibrates the ground. When the shock waves strike items of different densities they reflect back to…

hydraulic fracturing. This is a process that is used to release natural gases. This happens by drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure to fracture shale rocks, which in turn lets out the natural gas. One of the major problems with this is when the fracking fluid, contains over six hundred different chemicals. Chemicals such as, Mercury, formaldehyde and lead to name a few. In the America today there are some 500,000 gas wells, but they need to use eight million gallons of…

the state of North Carolina, allowing companies like Duke Energy, General Electric, and Piedmont Natural Gas access to shale drilling, which until now was never available. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rocks deep within the Earth. New advancements in drilling technology, such as hydraulic fracturing, has make it possible to extract natural gas from shale that was once unreachable with conventional oil drilling. Fracking is a very…

found that the cores were too weak due to an engineering flaw when curing the concrete. Engineers in an effort to save time on the project moved to accelerate the curing process. In order to accelerate the process nitrogen gas was added to the concrete mixture. The nitrogen gas expedited the curing process however there was a cost the came with the accelerated curing. The cores produced using the accelerated process were found to be too weak to withstand certain pressure surges caused by the…