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Showing 1 to 20 of 120 for “"Shale gas"”.
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Shale gas development and respiratory health
… has rapidly increased in areas rich in shale gas and oil in the years 2006 onwards. Areas that have undergone shale gas development are likely to be largely rural with few other air pollution point sources. Fracking operations such as well drilling, gas processing, and increased truck …
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Gas-condensate flow modelling for shale gas reservoirs.
In the last decade, shale reservoirs emerged as one of the fast growing hydrocarbon resources in the world unlocking vast reserves and reshaping the landscape of the oil and gas global market. Gas-condensate reservoirs represent an important part of these resources. The key feature of these …
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Forecast of Chinese Investment in US Shale Gas
… future growth of Chinese investment in the US shale gas industry in the short term (within the next 5 years) and in the long term (in more than 10 years). The thesis's purpose is to study the purpose, trend as well as the impact on China itself in China's recent asset acquisition activities in …
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Optimization of fracturing fluid to increase shale gas production
… of energy. Specifically, the demand for natural gas is rising explosively after the energy consumption structure has changed from oil to gas. Due to various reasons and motivations, shale has been considered having great reserves and believed in alleviating the energy crisis. Nevertheless, the …
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Economic analysis of shale gas wells in the United States
Natural gas produced from shale formations has increased dramatically in the past decade and has altered the oil and gas industry greatly. The use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has enabled the production of a natural gas resource that was previously unrecoverable. Estimates of the …
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Model for a Shale Gas Formation with Salt-Sealed Natural Fractures
… are reported cases of hydraulically fractured shale wells that exhibit boundary dominated flow in a very short period. This study suggests that dissolution of salt-sealed natural fractures in the shale offers a novel explanation for the early boundary dominated flow. We first discuss a …
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Fractured Discourse: Social Representations Of Shale Gas Development Via Hydraulic Fracturing
… and emergence of social representations of shale gas development (often called "fracking"). Social representations are common sense understandings of complex, novel phenomena generated in the public sphere via communal discourse. I triangulate between results from (1) a content analysis of …
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Multi-scale Numerical Studies on Characterization of Shale Gas Reservoir Development
… reliably and objectively assess and forecast the shale reservoir performance with an advanced understanding of the shale reservoir specialty. With enhanced hydraulic characterization, Chapter 2 provides an advanced modelling scheme using the commercial platform to reduce history-match errors and …
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Characterizing shale gas and tight oil drilling and production performance variability
Shale gas and tight oil are energy resources of growing importance to the U.S. and the world. The combination of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has enabled economically feasible production from these resources, leading to a surge in domestic oil and gas production. This is providing …
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Estudo do caso do Shale Gas: uma possibilidade energética no Brasil contemporâneo
… especifico aos Estados Unidos da América como o shale gas pode se tornar uma possibilidade energética de sucesso no Brasil contemporâneo. Diante da consolidada realidade positiva norte-americana relacionada a ampla cadeia produtiva do gas natural não convencional e do otimismo recente argentino, …
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“Our Forever Home”: Loss of Place and Shale Gas Development in Western Pennsylvania
The Marcellus Shale is a sedimentary rock formation that lies beneath most of Pennsylvania as well as portions of Ohio, West Virginia, New York, and Maryland, and holds one of the world’s largest natural gas reserves. It has been known that the Marcellus is a sizeable gas reservoir, but until the …
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Fracture Modeling and Flow Behavior in Shale Gas Reservoirs Using Discrete Fracture Networks
… efficiency due to channeling of injected gas or fluids, dynamic calculations of recoverable hydrocarbons that are much less than static mass balance ones due to reservoir compartmentalization, and dramatic production changes due to changes in reservoir pressure as fractures close down as …
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Characterisation of natural radioactivity in Karoo Basin groundwater prior to shale gas exploration
The prospect of unconventional shale-gas development in the Karoo Basin (South Africa) has created the need to obtain baseline data on natural radioactivity in Karoo groundwaters. The Karoo Basin groundwater radiological baseline developed through this study could serve as a reference to research …
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Regulation of shale gas development : an argument for state preeminence with federal support
Shale gas development has become big business in the United States during the past decade, introducing drilling to parts of the country that have not seen it in decades and provoking an accelerating shift in the country's energy profile. State governments, which have historically regulated the oil …
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A study of the non-tax fiscal regime for shale gas development in South Africa
… of its possible petroleum resources particularly shale gas, following the estimation of just over 400 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of shale gas resources in the Karoo region. This, including the lodgement of five shale gas exploration right applications has necessitated the strengthening of the …
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An analysis of the potential socio-economic impacts of shale gas development in South Africa
… government is in the process of considering shale gas exploration applications in the Karoo basin. There are conflicting views on whether the development of the resource will be to the detriment or benefit of the South African economy. This paper makes use of a dynamic Computable General …
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Evaluating Leachability of Residual Solids Generated from Unconventional Shale Gas Production Operations in Marcellus Shale
Hydraulic fracturing operations utilized for shale gas production result in the generation of a large volume of flowback and produced water that contain suspended material, salts, hydrocarbons, metals, chemical additives, and naturally-occurring radioactive material. The water is impounded at …
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Alternative groundwater resources in North-central Texas for the development of the Barnett Shale gas play
… and industrial applications. The natural gas industry’s demand for water is growing in Texas as new drilling techniques such a hydraulic fracturing have opened new reserves previously considered economically non-viable. The development of smaller aquifers containing brackish water is a …
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Devising a Legal Framework for Environmental Liability and Regulation for Mitigating Risks of Shale Gas Extraction
The safe extraction of shale gas resources has become a controversial issue in the energy sector and within energy law and policy circle. These issues have transcended to other areas of the society such as the environment, public health, and geopolitics. In fact, in environmental issue and …
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