Thanks to the combined technologies of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, which opened up the blockbuster frontier of shale gas, the U.S. is awash in natural gas. Natural gas supplies keep increasing every month.
The resulting surplus is keeping the price of natural gas so low that it is below the cost of drilling and producing most shale gas. So, if shale gas is uneconomic...
BY SETH BORENSTEIN AND JONATHAN FAHEY
The Associated Press
There has been speculation that the powerful earthquake that stuck Oklahoma Saturday night might be related to oil and gas drilling and related activities. The Associate Press published a good article that addresses the question with information from a Stanford University geophysicist and a U.S. Geological Survey...
Fracking, fracing or frac'ing, are all shorthand terms for hydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing is a procedure that creates small fissures in the layers of rock that contains natural gas and oil. The fracking process consists of pumping water, sand and other additives under high pressure into natural gas and oil bearing rock formations more than a mile and a half below the surface. The...
The makers of the film “Haynesville: A Nation’s Hunt for an Energy Future” were in Dallas on April 28 at SMU for a screening of their recently updated and extended version. The screening was followed by a panel consisting of Gregory Kallenberg, the Director of the film; Bernard Weinstein, Ph.D., Associate Director of the Maguire Energy Institute at SMU; Stephen Lindsey, Director of...
A registry for chemicals used in extracting natural gas through hydraulic fracturing was launched on April 10, 2011.
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Today, America faces a growing threat to its economic recovery as propaganda-generated afflictions like “frackophobia” (fear of hydraulic fracturing in natural gas production) spread through the media and seeped into regulation and legislation.
For example, “fear of fracking” has resulted in a de facto moratorium on gas drilling in New York State. Read more in the...
The Environmental Defense Fund and some natural gas producers are collaborating to define best practices in hydraulic fracturing, the Houston Chronicle reports. The EDF's senior policy advisor, Scott Anderson, speaks about fracing and the critical importance of well construction on...
Range Resources Corp. said Wednesday that it will immediately begin voluntarily disclosing the chemical additives it uses in hydraulic fracturing of new natural gas wells in the Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania, where the Fort Worth-based company is a leading producer.
Energy in Depth collects quotes on hydraulic fracturing from experts nationwide: Read more
A capacity crowd of about 600 gathered at the downtown Hilton Fort Worth hotel Thursday night, and dozens of speakers voiced either grave concerns about -- or enthusiastic support for -- the increasingly controversial hydraulic fracturing process . . . that has made possible drilling booms such as the Barnett Shale play in North Texas, the...
Stronger federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing, a technique routinely employed in drilling Barnett Shale natural gas wells, is needed "to truly protect the public health and environment," the Sierra Club and two groups active in North Texas said in a teleconference Wednesday, the...
Is everything featured in the recent movie "Gasland" accurate?
No. In fact, the movie "Gasland" promotes ideas about natural gas drilling that have been found to be false, inaccurate and misleading.
"Gasland" Claim: Natural gas extraction is exempt from federal regulations.
Fact: The process is subject to a host of...
BINGHAMTON, New York (Reuters) - New York landowners whose properties sit on the gas-rich Marcellus Shale are pushing back against calls for greater environmental regulation, saying it has halted the U.S. gas drilling boom at the New York border.
