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Onshore Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development: Legacy Issues and Innovations in Managing Risk--Day 1: Proceedings of a Workshop

Onshore Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development: Legacy Issues and Innovations in Managing Risk--Day 1: Proceedings of a Workshop

National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
Division on Earth and Life Studies
Water Science and Technology Board

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Environmental Studies

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ISBN10: 0309474248
ISBN13: 9780309474245
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: Aug 23 2018
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.86 Depth: 9.85
Language: English

Oil and gas well completion and stimulation technologies to develop unconventional hydrocarbon resources in the United States have evolved over the past several decades, particularly in relation to the development of shale oil and shale gas. Shale oil and shale gas resources and the technology associated with their production are often termed unconventional because the oil and gas trapped inside the shale or other low-permeability rock formation cannot be extracted using conventional technologies. Since about 2005, the application of these technologies to fields in the U.S. have helped produce natural gas and oil in volumes that allowed the country to reduce its crude oil imports by more than 50% and to become a net natural gas exporter. The regional and national economic and energy advances gained through production and use of these resources have been accompanied, however, by rapid expansion of the infrastructure associated with the development of these fields and public concern over the impacts to surface- and groundwater, air, land, and communities where the resources are extracted.

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