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The Clean Frac'ing Conference (Houston, February 17 - 18) is bringing together leaders from the oil and gas industry, academia, and government for a full and dynamic two-day event, with over 40 top speakers. The Conference will focus on 1) the innovations in technology and practice that continue to make hydraulic fracturing more communally and environmentally friendly, and 2) the vital issue of public perception and communication.
The Conference will be of high value not only for business and networking, but also for its overall educational content: attendees will come away with a holistic understanding of the issues surrounding hydraulic fracturing and a better ability to speak about them.
EFD members will receive $300 off Registration!
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EFCREO
Pipeline Safety and Public Awareness Workshop
April 2, 2014
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Texas A&M University-Kingsville Eagle Ford Center for Research, Education and Outreach (EFCREO) invites you to attend their Spring workshop that will be held in Cotulla, Texas. This workshop will cover basic pipeline safety, community risks, emergency response solutions and more.
Abstract Submissions: Deadline is February 28, 2014 via email to EFCREO@tamuk.edu. Please include a title, full name(s) of author(s), affiliation(s) and email address(es).
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is working with Texas A&M University - Kingsville and the Texas Center for Applied Technology on the HARC - Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems Technology Integration Program (EFD-TIP).
The West Regional EFD Center has established various test sites in the Eagle Ford, a major unconventional shale play in Texas, to establish a baseline monitoring program for air quality and emissions. The team has identified a broad range of new and existing in situ and mobile sensors capable of measuring environmental conditions and which can be integrated with the Sensorpedia sensor data sharing platform. Data sources include monitoring stations, vehicular emission sensors, leak detectors, open source sensors (e.g., from NOAA, USGS, EPA), enterprise sensors, and human field observations. Requirements and standards for data provenance and metrology for each of the sensor types - including human observations - have been developed. A "branded" Sensorpedia EFD server has been established at ORNL with features to allow trusted users within the EFD community to publish, share, see and subscribe to sensor information. A Sensorpedia information dashboard and data "mashups" have been specifically designed for the spatial display of the multi-sensor information in real time.
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ASME
San Diego, California
March 17 - 19, 2014
Various EFD sponsor/alliance members will be presenting.
(Statoil, Shell, Apache, RPSEA, BP, etc.)
Dr. Rich Haut will be speaking in the 'Technologies for Completion and Fracturing - Efficiency, Economics, and Optimization' (Session 4) and moderating in the Environmentally Sustainable & Competitive Solutions panel.
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Industry Calendar
Feb 4-5, 2014
Feb 4-6, 2014
The Woodlands, TX
Feb 26-28, 2014
Lafayette, LA Mar 4-6, 2014 Fort Worth, TX Mar 17-19, 2014 Long Beach, CA Pittsburgh, PA
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EFD-TIP
Case Study:
Chalk Hill Ranch - Dewitt County Field Trial 3
The November case study report is available now. This report discusses some of the studies the West Regional EFD Team focus upon, including:
Soil Study, Fecal Study, Water Treatment, Air Emissions, and Risk Assessments.
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Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Compliance Tools for Oil & Gas Facilities in Texas
- Who regulates Oil & Gas Activities?
- Common Environmental Requirements for Regulated Oil & Gas Operations
- Air Compliance Information
- Water Compliance Information
- Wast Compliance Information
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featuring several EFD West Regional Center team members.
We have our own Vimeo channel with various other videos.
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Water & Wastewater: Issues, Challenges, Solutions and New Technologies
Equipment Demonstrations
April 15-16, 2014
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Water/Wastewater: Challenges and Treatment Options Equipment Demonstrations
August 5-6, 2014 Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Contact: Carl Vavra carl.vavra@pe.tamu.edu
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Oil & Gas Environmental Conference
Rich Haut was a keynote speaker at the Oil & Gas Environmental Conference.
His presentation is available here:
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Coming soon - Virtual Hydraulic Fracturing site!
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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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