Oil and gas fields of the United States, exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii

1964 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Gas Fields

Institutions and the shale boom

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
ILIA MURTAZASHVILI
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Ownership ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurs ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Mineral Rights ◽  
Douglass North ◽  
Gas Fields

AbstractThis paper uses the institutional economics of Douglass North to explain three features of the shale boom: why fracking technology emerged in the United States, the rapid increase in production of natural gas in the United States and the uneven response to these new economic opportunities in shale-rich economies. It argues that the institutional matrix of the United States, in particular private ownership of minerals, encouraged experimentation on the barren Texas oil and gas fields, where fracking technology emerged and the rapid transfer of mineral rights to gas companies. Institutional entrepreneurs, namely landmen and lawyers, facilitated contracting between owners of mineral rights and drillers. Private ownership of minerals and an ideology supportive of drilling provide insight into the adoption of regulations that encourage hydraulic fracturing.

scholarly journals THE MAIN RESERVE OF ACCELERATED EFFECTIVE OPENING OF OIL AND GAS FIELDS IN UKRAINE

2019 ◽  
pp. 31-37
Author(s):  
V. T. Kryvosheyev ◽  
V. V. Makogon ◽  
Ye. Z. Ivanova
Keyword(s):  
Shale Gas ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Hydrocarbon Production ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
High Level ◽  
Gas Fields

Economic hardship in Ukraine during the years of independence led to a sharp reduction of exploration work on oil and gas, a drop in hydrocarbon production, a decrease in inventories and a sharp collapse of research work to ensure the growth of hydrocarbon reserves.The hydrocarbon potential of various sources of Ukrainian subsoil is quite powerful and can provide future energy independence of the country. Potential hydrocarbon resources in traditional traps of various types are exhausted by only 25 %. Ukraine has recently experienced so-called “shale gas boom”. The experience of extraction of shale gas in desert areas of the United States can not be repeated in densely populated Ukraine in the absence of such powerful shale strata, resource base, necessary infrastructure, own technologies and techniques and economic, environmental and social risks.Taking into account the fuel and energy problems of the state, we constantly throughout the years of independence oriented the oil and gas industry and the authorities on the active use of our own reserves and opportunities for accelerated opening of new oil and gas fields.The results of geological exploration work in the old oil and gas basins at the high level of their study indicate that deposits in non-structural traps dominate among open deposits.A complex of sequence-stratigraphical, lithology-facies and lithology-paleogeographical studies is being successfully used to forecast undeformational traps in well-studied oil and gas bearing basin of the Ukraine – the Dniprovsko-Donetsky basin. The authors predict wide development of stratigraphic, lithologic, tectonic and combined traps in terrigenous sediments of Tournaisian and Visean age, reef-carbonate massifs of the lower Tournaisian, lower and middle Visean age and others. They should become the basis for exploration of oil and gas fields for the near and medium term and open the second breath of the basin.

scholarly journals Time Series Analysis of Geotechnical Data From a Sensor Network Controlling the Remoted Pipeline

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alla Yu. Vladova
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Local Heating ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
Heating Effects ◽  
Additive Regression Model ◽  
Soil Temperatures ◽  
Additive Regression ◽  
Gas Fields

Extensive, but remote oil and gas fields of the United States, Canada, and Russia require the construction and operation of extremely long pipelines. Global warming and local heating effects lead to rising soil temperatures and thus a reduction in the sub-grade capacity of the soils; this causes changes in the spatial positions and forms of the pipelines, consequently increasing the number of accidents. Oil operators are compelled to monitor the soil temperature along the routes of the remoted pipelines in order to be able to perform remedial measures in time. They are therefore seeking methods for the analysis of volumetric diagnostic information. To forecast soil temperatures at the different depths we propose compiling a multidimensional dataset, defining descriptive statistics; selecting uncorrelated time series; generating synthetic features; robust scaling temperature series, tuning the additive regression model to forecast soil temperatures.

scholarly journals Estimating global oilfield-specific flaring with uncertainty using a detailed geographic database of oil and gas fields

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhan Zhang ◽  
Evan David Sherwin ◽  
Adam R Brandt
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Infrared Imaging ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gas Production ◽  
Associated Gas ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Oil And Gas Fields ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Gas Fields

Abstract Associated gas flaring during crude oil production is an important contributor to global warming. Satellite technology has made global flaring monitoring possible with high spatial resolution. In this study, we construct a granular database to geographically match global oil and gas fields with remote sensing flaring data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) from 2012 to 2019. The GIS database contains over 50,000 oil and gas fields and around 4,700 infrastructure sites (e.g., refineries, terminals) in 51 countries and regions, representing 96% of global oil production and 89% of natural gas production. Over 2,900 fields and 140 infrastructure sites in 47 countries contain matching flares. The annual matched flare volume covers 89~92% of the satellite-estimated flaring volume of these countries and 85~87% of total worldwide volume detected by the satellite. In 2019, a set of 263 “high-flare” fields (which flare more than 0.1 billion cubic meters per year) account for 67% of the total matched satellite-estimated volume. These fields are mainly concentrated in the Persian Gulf, West and East Siberia, Eastern Venezuela Basin, Permian and Williston Basins in the United States, the Gulf of Mexico, and West and North Africa. Accounting for asymmetric instrument uncertainty suggests that country-level flaring rates are accurate to within -8% ~ +29%, the global average within 1%.

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