Introduction
Shale gas is a natural gas that is found deep in the earth’s crust. This type of natural gas usually forms in shale deposits and can be released with a drilling technique known as fracking. Shale gas has become the most important source of natural gas in the United States. Scientist and researchers have always known of shale gas, but none have had the technologies to reach it till now. In early 2000, shale gas compensated for one percent of the United States supply of natural gas resources, but by 2010, shale gas accounted for over twenty percent of the United States supply of natural gas.
Fossil fuels have many advantages, and are a good way to break the dependency on other countries for their natural resource supplies, but they also take the pressure off of non-renewable energy. Fossil fuels are quite adequate to run vehicles, electricity, and heat. Fossil fuels, like shale gas, are in abundance and not expensive, but with the world’s oil supply declining the price of natural gas is rising. While shale gas can help provide an endless supply of energy for America’s future the way of extracting the gas, fracking, poses a real threat to the environment and wildlife.
Counter Argument
There are those who support fracking as a means of extracting natural gas from shale deposits. They believe that fracking is a good thing and that it can have benefits on the environment. In their article Shale Gas: Fracking Great, The Economist suggest that the risks from fracking can be managed, “the risks from shale gas can be managed. Properly concreted well-shafts do not leak; regurgitants can be collected and made safe; preventing gas venting and flaring would limit methane emissions to acceptable levels” (Economist, 2012). Th...
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...rom other countries. The fact that fracking is so damaging to the environment should make one rethink the process they use. In order to reach gas deposits that far under the surface, one has to drill. The best way to do this would be to develop a type of drill that could be constructed without clearing land and could reach the depths required using green chemicals that are both safe and biodegradable, that way if there were a leak it would not harm the environment.
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Chapter 1 Research purpose and meaning 1.1 Concept Shale gas is a kind of unconventional nature gas, which is trapped or gathered in the dark shale or carbon rock. The rock layer has low permeability and low porosity, which means that the best way to get this recourse is fracturing to enhance connectivity and porosity. The shale gas reservoirs are mainly located in North America, Central Asia, China, Latin America, Middle East, North Africa and Russia and other countries and regions. The United State
Hydraulic fracturing, also called fracking, is a technique designed to release the gas and oil from shale rock hidden underneath earth’s surface. The term fracking itself is referring to the point at which the shale rock is broken open by a high-pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals. Oil and gas fracking can be dangerous to the environment and also to humans. “In 2011, energy company Cuadrilla suspended test fracking operations near
Jared Ishmael Persuasive Outline Communication Studies MW 8:30 Topic: Hydraulic Fracturing Introduction A. Attention Getter: Right now all across America, rural landowners are getting outstanding offers from energy companies wanting to lease their property. How come? It is because these people are unknowingly sitting on the "Saudi Arabia of Natural gas". Moreover, an energy company known as Halliburton found an innovative way of tapping into it, known as hydraulic Fracturing. B. Thesis statement:
The search for a good oil supply has been going on ever since cars first started to run on gasoline. Although while there are great ways to drill, there are extremely dangerous environmental hazards and risks to animals that come along with it. Fracking, many argue, is the best form of drilling that we have today. Fracking is the use of sand, water, and chemicals injected at high pressures to blast open shale rock and release the trapped gas inside. Still, many debate the use of fracking because
question. America is becoming more and more worried about where it will get the resources it needs for energy. Coal is becoming an expensive resource and under close observation due to its effect on our atmosphere with its carbon dioxide emissions. Nuclear power has created concerns since the recent Japanese disaster. We return to looking for a way to have fuel needed to supply us with the energy needs of today, and also the future. Natural gas then presents itself as an option. Natural gas is being
exterior's surface. Why is there oil and gas in the earth's interior? Could it be natures way of lubricating the earth, like we do with our machines to keep them running smoothly? Scientist and other who study the make up of the earth can only speculate at these questions, but without real knowledge, forth coming dangers will only be recognized in hindsight. Every year t... ... middle of paper ... ... them to live on. Works Cited “About Oil Shale” Oil Shale & Tar Programmatic EIC, n.d., web, 26
LNG carriers, or Liquid natural gas carriers, are large tankers carrying liquefied natural gas. A relatively new industry, LNG carriers offer a promising alternative mode of transporting natural gas because the liquid state is 500 times more condensed. There are currently over 400 LNG carriers in the world, but each company in the industry is pushing those numbers. The key to this industry is to expand the amount of terminals for LNG Carriers, and this is the greatest barrier to both new entrants
because oil and gas fracking is big business in America, with more than two million hydraulically fractured wells across the country producing 43 and 67 percent of our national oil and gas outputs, respectively. But in my opinion these wells also nearly played a secondary role as nuclear waste storage sites and had the Atomic Energy Commission had its way with Project Plowshare. And fracking is the process of pumping water deep into the Earth, specifically into underground oil and gas reserves, at tremendous
Ethical Issues Concerning Hydraulic Fracturing in the Petroleum Industry. In these present days we have a lot of ethical issue in our day to day living going from conflict of interest all the way up to cutting corners in the petroleum industry. A good example of an ethical issue would be why fracking is bad, which I find to be very dangerous and could lead to various disasters such as loss of life, danger to the community and thereby leading to bad credibility. In this paper I would be talking
strategic system of obtaining natural gas that could be as deep as several thousand feet underground. Basically a mixture of sand, water, and chemicals are pumped underground at extreme pressures until they hit shale which contains the natural gas and in return the gas is forced up out of the ground. Fracking has become a highly successful process for increasing natural gas reserves in the United States. This process also lowers the United States dependence on foreign gas and oil and it accounts for an
world are the usual suspects. These include the United States, China, Japan, India and Russia. Canada comes in at number 10 with a daily consumption of 2,287 thousand barrels per day. There are three major types of fossil fuels: coal, oil and natural gas. These resources were formed during the Carboniferous Period 360-286 million years ago. During this time earth was covered in swamps with large amounts of plants and waters filled with algae. When these plants and trees began to die they would form
the demand for the product is when the price of the product changes. A price elasticity with the magnitude of one would mean the demand and price would change by the same magnitude percent. A price elasticity between magnitude 1 and 0 would mean the good is relatively inelastic. For oil, it is estimated “short-run elasticities suggest that oil demand is highly price-inelastic” (Cooper). Many of the twenty-three countries studied by Cooper had a short-run price elasticity between -0.01 and 0. This means
commonly called the Bluegrass Pipeline, serves for public use. Many people say that the pipeline will benefit the economy and provide jobs, while others complain that the pipeline will cause more harm than good. I am here to argue with the latter, the pipeline will cause much more harm than good. The pipeline is less for public use and more for national and international. In an expanded view the pipeline is very beneficial to the world but we are not talking about the world view. Much of the profit
established network of oil refineries and pipelines. In the 1940s, America began laying its first underground oil and gas pipelines. We now have an expansive network that stretches more than 2 million miles, coast to coast, and transports over 11.3 billion barrels of oil each year.13,17 The shale drilling boom is expected to add an additional 400,000 miles of new gathering lines (the pipelines closest to the wellhead that transport oil or gas to a storage facility or larger main pipeline) in the next two
allows the pursuit of natural gas and is cracking the shale rock underground to release the trapped gas; chemically treated water and sand release natural gas deposits. Fracking will impact the economic development and revenue in some positive ways as far as creating jobs, especially in some places where jobs are scarce. It can also help with economic growth in the idea of helping to improve the natural gas industry and technology. Fracking natural gas can help America restrain from its need on oil