Sunday, April 15, 2012

Oil Gas Wastewater

  • A former top environmental official says Pennsylvania's successful efforts to keep Marcellus Shale wastewater away from drinking water supplies should be extended to all other oil and gas drillers. "It's the same industry. It is the same contaminants.
  • (Corning Evening Times)
  • PITTSBURGH — A former top environmental official says Pennsylvania's successful efforts to keep Marcellus Shale wastewater away from drinking water supplies should be extended to all other oil and gas drillers. "It's the same industry.
  • (Washington Post)
  • WILLIAMSPORT, Pa.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • Its not clear how the earthquake rates might be related to oil and gas production, the study authors said. They note that others have linked earthquakes to injecting huge amounts of leftover wastewater deep into the earth.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • This is so unusual that Ellsworth and other seismologists suspected it wasnt natural — they suspected the oil and gas industry. Quakes Clustered Around Wastewater Wells Gas drilling is on the rise around the country, especially hydraulic fracturing.
  • (NPR News)
  • A spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. is almost certainly man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a study. Researchers from the U.
  • (Detroit Free Press)
  • including produced water treatment and water/steam injection for oil and gas production, as well as boiler feed water treatment, wastewater treatment and water reuse for the downstream petroleum industry.
  • (PennEnergy)
  • More immediately, a new study conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey points to an "unprecedented" spike in mini-earthquake activity around areas of intense oil and gas production.
  • (Financial Post)
  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rules on the disposal of drilling wastewater and on emissions from oil and gas wells. Fumes from wells include methane, the main component of natural gas, and volatile organic compounds.
  • (Akron Beacon Journal)
  • A spate of earthquakes across the middle of the U.S. -- including Oklahoma -- is "almost certainly" man-made, and may be caused by wastewater from oil or gas drilling injected into the ground, U.S. government scientists said in a study.
  • (Tulsa World)

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