Shale gas

gains, as a result from increased fracking, gas bills have dropped $13 billion per year from 2007 to 2013, which adds up to a total of $200 per year for gas consuming households. Households aren’t the only people seeing the difference, commercial, industrial, and electric power consumers, saw economic gains totaling $74 billion per year from increased fracking. In 2011, the United States produced 8,500,983 million cubic feet of natural gas from shale gas wells. Taking an average price of $4.24…

It has been long acknowledged that the Untied States is in need of finding a natural energy source in order to become a more sustainable country and to also become less dependent on the Middle East. Attaining natural gas and oil from shale is a game changer when it comes to energy production. However, this revolutionary approach has created environmental skepticism around how environmentally friendly and sustainable this practice actually is and the types of problems that could be associated…

or fracking, is a technique designed to recover gas and oil from shale rock. Fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside.” To be more specific, oil companies drill into the earth to extract gas from rocks using a high pressure water mixture. The water mixture includes gallons of water, sand, and chemicals which are shot directly into the rock. Shale lies thousands of feet underground, and so a new…

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…

highlighting the negative effects of hydraulic fracking in its role of causing potential damage to the environment and contamination of groundwater. Hydraulic fracking is defined as the injection of liquid fluid at high pressure that extracts oil or gas. In Cart’s article, she denotes how this issue is very problematic because both oppositions have different opinions. For instance, the companies she interviewed disregard the potential damages from fracking and state that it is safe and “there…

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 disputed topic…

commonly known as “fracking”, is used in nine out of ten natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand, and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock and release the gas. This type of drilling has been used commercially for 65 years. The debate goes back and forth about whether fracking is safe or not. Natural gas Industry claims that fracking is completely safe because the shale formations lie far below the water table and pose no threat to…

Fracking in a nutshell, is a new way to extract oil out of shale in the United states. Most other countries don’t use it because they don’t need it, we are finding lots of oil in shale, but its too dense and hard to extract that oil out of without breaking it up first. Fracking means to use liquid to break apart fissures and extract oil and gas through the gaps, and hydraulic means to be using and moving fluid under pressure. They have reinvented portions of the process of how we go about…

On Tuesday, February 11, 2014, workers at a fracking well were about to begin a safety meeting at a fracking well site. The three wells on the site were drilled and ready to produce fresh natural gas. The wells were owned and operated by Chevron Appalachia, in Dunkard Township, Pennsylvania, of southwest of Pittsburgh. One of the wells was making a hissing noise. The hissing noise was methane escaping from a damaged well. The well exploded while one of the workers, Ian McKee, was investigating…

Fracking is the process used to access natural gas that is trapped underground 1. Recently, fracking in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale has gained the attention of many environmentalists 1. Many energy corporations argue that the natural gas industry is not only important for the United States energy, but it is also a large contributor the U.S. economy 2. Environmentalists have made arguments that fracking is not a clean process because the actual process of fracking involved uses a large…