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Dear EFD Friends,
April 22, 2012 marks the 42nd official Earth Day. The EFD Team is proud to celebrate the significant changes and improvements the oil and gas industry has made over the years. This newsletter highlights many upcoming events where you can participate and learn more about how the Environmentally Friendly Drilling Program is leading the way through research to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Read more about EFD Salutes Earth Day by clicking on the image below.
Happy Earth Day!
The EFD Team
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Recent News and Highlights
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FracFocus Company Webinar
The Ground Water Protection Council and Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission are pleased to announce that an on-line webinar is now available for companies that would like to participate in the FracFocus hydraulic fracturing chemical registry. This informative webinar explains the company registration process and the procedures for designating system users and managing disclosure records.
FracFocus Company Webinar
Participating Company Training webinar for the FracFocus System.
NOTE: This Flash file will not run on iPhones and iPads
The Ground Water Protection Council and Interstate Oil and Gas Commission also offer their thanks to the Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems Program managed by the Houston Advanced Research Center and the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) at Texas A&M University for their help in developing this webinar.
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April 22-26, 2012: Practical Membrane & Separations Technologies Course (College Station, TX)
The Texas A&M University System presents the Original 22nd Annual Practical Membrane / Filtration & Separations Technologies Short Course: Fundamentals, New Developments, Applications and Daily Pilot Plant Demonstrations. [Download Brochure] or [Register]
April 26-27, 2012: Environmental and Energy Sustainability Conference (Houston,TX)
The CREST-RESSACA Center at Texas A&M University-Kingsville is organizing an NSF-supported "Environmental and Energy Sustainability Conference" to be held at the Intercontinental Houston Hotel on April 26-27. EFD's David Burnett is the keynote speaker for lunch April 27 and will talk about treating and reusing produced water. [Download Agenda]
May 2, 2012: EFD Guided Tour at Offshore Technology Conference (Houston,TX)
The Environmentally Friendly Drilling program is hosting an inaugural guided tour at the upcoming Houston Offshore Technology Conference (OTC). Our program goal is to identify cost effective technologies which can reduce the environmental footprint; and there are many good technologies that are being applied offshore that have applicability on-shore. If you have never been to the OTC, it is amazing to say the least. Over 80,000 people will attend, and there are literally thousands of vendors covering all of Reliant Center, the Reliant Arena and two tents the size of football fields, and there are many more outside booths. This is in addition to several parallel technical sessions going on for 4 days. While you may want to make a day of it, the tour is scheduled for Wednesday May 2, 2012 from 1- 5pm.The guided EFD tour has limited availability and registration is free.
[Download Agenda] Register with Ginny Jahn at gjahn@harc.edu
May 15, 2012: Coastal Impacts Technology Program Workshop (Houston, TX)
The Coastal Impacts Technology Program is holding another workshop at the University of Houston on May 15, 2012. The objectives of the workshop are to identify research, technology development and workforce training programs that will reduce the environmental impacts of energy production along the 18 Texas coastal counties.If you are interested in attending please contact Rich (rhaut@harc.edu) for further information.
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Scott Anderson
John A. Connor
Tom Geehan
Marian Higgins
Steve Holdich
Urs Kreuter
Keith McLeroy
Ann Smith
Susan Stuver
Gene Theodori
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A Better Way to Estimate Emissions
The Texas Center for Applied Technology (TCAT) has a better way to estimate emissions from O&G operations. Click here to read the white paper.
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Partner Highlights
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The EFD program, funded by federal, state and foreign government agencies, industry and environmental organizations, provides unbiased science to policy makers and identifies, develops and tests new technologies, processes and systems to reduce the environmental footprint associated with oil and gas activities, from well site selection through natural gas compression. The program, approximately $4 million per year, is engaged in research and technology transfer activities from the Western Slope of the Rockies to the Ukraine, and from the North Slope of Alaska to Columbia (South America). Research includes land, air and water issues, as well as public perception investigations. The program was honored with the Chairman's Stewards Award for Environmental Partnership at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission. For more information, see: www.efdsystems.org.
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