Shale

Academic Analysis: “Natural Gas Fracking Addresses All of Our Major Problems” In his essay, “Natural Gas Fracking Addresses All of our Major Problems,” Richard Pierce argues that drilling for natural gas by using horizontal drilling and fracturing of shale formations will solve many of our nation’s issues. He cites that our abundant supply of natural gas has the ability to improve our economy, the environment, and geopolitical conditions as well provide a constant, dependable, global energy…

Over the years Brownsville, Texas has been in the process of industrializing and coming up with ideas to do so. Recently, Brownsville has proposed to build a Liquefied natural gas, “(LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4) that has been converted to liquid form for ease of storage or transport” (Project). This process also requires very strict safety measures and precautions during all liquefaction stages, due to the flammable nature of the gas involved. If a leak happens in the process…

Natural gas drilling is becoming a major profit maker for a multitude of companies. In response to being offered one hundred thousand dollars to sell his land for hydraulic fracturing, Josh Fox, a native Pennsylvania documentary filmmaker, begins to do his own research into the drilling industry. With the help of people from across the county, Fox is able to obtain first hand repercussions of the natural gas drilling on water supplies, overall health, animals, life after fracking, and the lack…

CORE “?” PRO 3: Journalist Richard Schiffman is also in favor of a change in out electricity production. In Schiffman’s article, “Why the Shift to Alternate Energies Continues, Despite Shale Boom” he focuses on the benefits that we will begin to see as we switch from fossil fuels to forms of energy such as solar and wind. He believes that no matter the upfront costs, both economically and socially, the benefits will quickly arise and outweigh the costs. These benefits will come from lower…

world's surface. Amid usual penetrating, mechanical methods of extraction of oil and gas from open subterranean supplies and gather it at the surface. Fracking includes the high-weight infusion of artificially treated water and sand into shale shake, which separates the shale and discharges amounts of oil and gas that are not available by traditional penetrating techniques. The sand uproots the oil or gas, which is pumped back to the wellhead at the surface and isolated from the water. The…

it is reasonable to expect a faster rate of growth than it had in the United States. China also has enormous advantages on labor and its cheap cost, The billions of money that was used as investment is also starting to payback, the cost to drill a shale gas well in Sichuan Basin have lowered over the 2 years of development. (See Graph…

Canadian oil boom Great or Horrible “It a choice between starving or being poisoned” says a local doctor The canadian oil boom is the canadian companies are using oil sands to make oil and it is very poisonous.Canadian oil boom profitable but dangerous these are some things you may ask What are oil sands?What’s crude oil?Where did they come from? So you may ask what are oil sands? According to www.enr.gov.nt.ca Oil sands are a mixture of sand, water, clay and bitumen. Bitumen is oil that…

the flow of gas out to the head of the well. It is worth noting that the working of fracking entails several steps. The first step is on drilling a hole down to the level of gas-rich shale. The drilled well is then given a steel casing to prevent contamination of the nearby waters. The moment the drill reaches the shale layer, it starts to drill at a horizontal dimension for miles. It is at the time in which a perforating gun that is loaded with explosives is charged and lowered to the bottom of…

and 7.0% zinc at 4.8 Mt. The host rock of this deposit consists of pyritic shale, carbonaceous shale, dolomitic siltstone, carbonate, granite, ironstone and metasedimentary cover rocks (Hutton et al. 2012). Deposit genesis The ore deposit genesis is considered to have occurred in the Urquhart Shale, deep water and black shale environment, shallow water and hypersaline environment (Forrestal, 1990). In the Urquhart Shale, hydrothermal alteration had taken place in which the selected beds were…

(2015) delineates hydraulic fracking as an unconventional method of extracting natural gas reserves situated in shale rock. Fracking for shale gas occurs in fractured rock sediments when pressurized liquid (water and additives) and sand are ingested at high pressure through wells to crack shale rocks sediments (Evensen, Jacquet, Clarke & Stedman, 2014). The most commonly extracted shale gas is methane gas even though other secondary gases may also be present (American Petroleum Institute [API],…