United States : Recycling of waste water to be norm for gas wells.Byline: manish03 Major companies drilling for natural gas in Western Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale rock formation are or soon will be recycling all the waste water recovered from their operations, executives said Monday. Jeff Ventura, president of Range Resources Corp., emphasized the importance of recycling and reusing water recovered from its natural gas drilling operations in Washington County. "We are recycling 100 percent of the flowback water, which is between 15 percent and 30 percent of the water used during Marcellus Shale well drilling," said Ventura. A typical well drilled in the Marcellus Shale formation uses new horizontal drilling technology that uses millions of gallons of water to fracture gas-containing shale thousands of feet underground and may return 600,000 gallons of water to be recycled. Ventura, a native of Penn Hills, spoke yesterday at Hart Energy Publishing's "Developing Unconventional Gas East Convention" in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center The David L. Lawrence Convention Center is a 1.5 million square foot convention, conference and exhibition building in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Completed in 2003, it sits on the southern shoreline of the Allegheny River. , Downtown. Recycling efforts are expected by proponents to play a huge role in achieving the state Department of Environmental Protection's proposed 2011 water quality discharge standards. Earlier this year, DEP DEP Deposit DEP Deputy DEP Department of Environmental Protection DEP Dependent DEP Departure DEP Depot DEP Deposition DEP deployed (US DoD) DEP Data Execution Prevention (computer security) Secretary John Hanger announced a proposal that all industrial water discharges contain less than 500 parts per million parts per million mg/kg or ml/l; see ppm. of total dissolved solids Total dissolved solids (often abbreviated TDS) is an expression for the combined content of all inorganic and organic substances contained in a liquid which are present in a molecular, ionized or micro-granular (colloidal sol) suspended form. . The proposal would impact several industries, including natural gas development. Water recycling is important because demand for treating wastewater from oil and gas production in the state is expected to reach about 9 million gallons a day this year, according to a DEP report. It is projected to increase to 16 million gallons next year and 19 million gallons a day in 2011, when new standards limiting such pollution would take effect. Another major drilling company, Rex Energy Corp. of State College, is recycling all Marcellus Shale drilling water the company recovers. "We believe that water-related issues in the Marcellus have been somewhat overblown o·ver·blown v. Past participle of overblow. adj. 1. a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations. b. , but we are recycling 100 percent of our recoverable water," said Rex CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Benjamin W. Huburt. Not everyone is convinced that recycling recoverable water is the answer to potential water pollution problems within the Marcellus Shale formation, which covers an area including most of Pennsylvania and portions of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Ohio and West Virginia, more than 54,000 square miles. "Two words, Dunkard Creek," said Tom Hoffman, Western Pennsylvania director for Clean Water Pittsburgh, referring to a huge kill of fish, mussels and other aquatic life along a 30-mile stretch of Dunkard Creek in Greene County on the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border. Wastewater from drilling operations have been blamed for the incident. A yellow algae algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that usually found in very hot climates such as in the Southwest is believed to be the reason for the kill, although the direct source for the algae formation has yet to be determined, officials have said. CNX CNX Canceled CNX Certified Network Expert CNX Chiang Mai, Thailand - International (Airport Code) CNX CRISIL NSE (National Stock Exchange) Indices (India stock exchange) Gas Corp. has agreed to suspend inj Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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