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WASHINGTON, June 21, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health today issued a hazard alert on ensuring that employers in hydraulic fracturing operations take appropriate steps to protect workers from silica exposure. Today's action, which is taken after consultation with stakeholders, including industry, meets the Obama administration's focus on ensuring...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of the disinfection equipment market for shale oil and gas wastewater treatment, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Ecosphere Technologies, Inc. and Ecosphere Energy Services LLC with the 2012 North American Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Leadership. Through its advanced oxidation technology, OZONIX®, Ecosphere has answered the challenges of recycling and reusing the water used during hydraulic...
REDMOND, Wash., June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- M.G. Bryan Equipment Co., a leading heavy equipment and machinery OEM for the oil and gas industry, is using cloud computing for remote asset management of high-tech fracturing equipment. Designed and integrated with Rockwell Automation, M.G. Bryan's new equipment's control and information system leverages Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Azure cloud-computing platform to help provide secure remote access to real-time information, automated...
CALGARY, June 11, 2012 /CNW/ - The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers responded today to comments about natural gas hydraulic fracturing attributed to federal opposition leader Thomas Mulcair. "In late January, CAPP announced new Canada-wide hydraulic fracturing operating practices designed to improve water management and water and fluids reporting for shale gas and tight gas development across Canada," said CAPP President Dave Collyer. "CAPP members developed the...
HOUSTON, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Prometheus Energy announced that the company will be presenting at an upcoming LNG-Fueled Drilling & Fracturing Conference in Houston. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20111206/SF18166LOGO) On Thursday, June 14, Prometheus Energy's Manager of Business Development Mike Fradette will be presenting at the Zeus 2012 LNG-Fueled Drilling & Fracturing Conference at the Houston Magnolia Hotel. The demand for liquefied natural gas...
Erie Rising and other environmental groups mobilize 300 residents to call on Encana to stop the Canyon Creek drilling site near their homes and elementary schools in Erie, Colorado Erie, Colorado (PRWEB) June 07, 2012 The newly founded group Erie Rising organized a protest on Saturday to demand that Encana cancel their drilling plans on a new eight pad well that is located near schools and many homes. The event featured a rally at Erie Community Park at 10:30 a.m., followed by a march...
CALGARY, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - EVOLUTION WELL SERVICES offers a new system and method of providing on-site electrical power along with a totally electrically powered frac spread. A patent pending technology allows for the use of electrical power to deliver fracturing fluids to the wellbore during fracturing operations. This process technology eliminates the use of conventional diesel engines, transmissions along with their associated emissions, eco-footprint, maintenance...
Lack of Research in Rushed Embrace of Shale Gas as "Bridge Fuel" Seen as Troubling WASHINGTON, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Modern hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") is so new that over half of all the shale gas ever developed in the world has been produced in the last three years, which has resulted in nearly all of the peer-reviewed scientific research on the environmental and public health consequences of shale gas having been done in the last 14 months. The...
HOUSTON, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- PacWest Consulting Partners has just published the latest release of its PumpingIQ report, which monitors hydraulic fracturing capacity in the US. PacWest analysis reveals that aggregate US pressure pumping supply exceeded demand late in the fourth quarter of 2011. PacWest estimates that US pressure pumping capacity utilization in the first quarter of 2012 averaged 93.4%. "This is a major shift for the US pressure pumping market, which had...
LAFAYETTE, La., May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Field Energy Services, Inc. today announced a milestone of 100 completed fracturing stages, with rates reaching 105 barrels per minute, performed in the Eagle Ford Shale, Woodford Shale, and Texas Panhandle. This achievement comes through the tireless efforts and determination of the entire Company, and the vision of using clean turbine pumping technology to realize this goal. Jerry Broussard, Green Field's Vice President of...
