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named winner in
2014 TEEA Pollution Prevention Category!
The Texas Environmental Excellence Awards, a program of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, recognizes and celebrates outstanding waste reduction and pollution prevention projects.
In addition to nearly 700 gas wells, Pioneer Natural Resources operates 800 miles of pipeline in the Texas Panhandle. Every day, spherical balls called "pigs" keep those lines clean. As the pig moves, it catches condensate, sediment, and rust. But every time a pressurized gas line is opened, there's also a small loss of product. In 2006, Pioneer devised a process to drop line pressure before it's opened. Pioneer also built larger launching and receiving barrels which enables workers to insert 14 pigs at once. This means hatches only need to be opened a couple of times a week instead of a couple of times a day. That cut emissions by 90%. The company invested more than 4 million dollars in the new process and already has taken what it learned here to its other operations.
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Clearer Protocols Needed to Determine Groundwater Contamination
Annual Technical Conference and ExhibitionDetermining the cause of groundwater contamination is one of the biggest challenges facing scientists and environmentalists, according to panelists in at a session entitled "Assessing Environmental Impacts to Groundwater, Air, and Our Global Community" at SPE's.
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Schlumberger wins
2014 IOGCC Chairman's Stewardship Award in Large/Major Company Category
This award recognizes an innovative project by a large oil and natural gas company that demonstrates positive environmental stewardship. Large companies are those that operate nationwide and in many instances internationally.
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Climate Symposium
Houston, TX & Tusla, OK
Cutting Edge Technologies in Innovative Mining
The mining, gas and oil industry faces the common challenge of staying profitable while maintaining strict environmental regulations. In response, this year's Climate Symposium welcomes companies from the mining, gas, and oil industry as well as academic professionals. During this half-day symposium, German and U.S. industry experts will share their findings in research and innovation related to new technologies in the mining industry.
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Siemens Energy Honors Epic Software Group
with 2014 Small Business Supplier of the Year Award
The EFD Team has relied on epic for many projects, including the EFD Virtual Sites, numerous EFD videos and the EFD website. Congratulations to this very talented group! Visit www.epicsoftware.com |
November 18-20, 2014
Pittsburgh, PA November 13-14, 2014 Houston, TX February 3 - 4, 2015 Houston, TX March 6-7, 2015 San Antonio, TX March 22-26, 2015 Denver, CO
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ACS
March 22-26, 2015
Deadline to submit: varies
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Characterizing Nitrogen Emissions
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Emily Elliott at the University of Pittsburgh is working on how to characterize nitrogen emissions. Measurements use a combination of passive and real-time sampling of NH3, NOx and ozone (O3). This work aims to fill a critical knowledge gap in assessing how activities associated with individual wells may potentially affect air quality and ecosystem improvements realized under the Clean Air Act and Amendments. The EFD Team is coordinating with operators to locate additional sites to test the process that Emily is developing.
If you have a potential site,
please contact Rich Haut rhaut@harcresearch.org
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SPONSORS ONLY ANNUAL MEETING
November 13, 2014
The Woodlands, TX
Please RSVP
to Ginny Jahn
gjahn@HARCresearch.org
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Finalist for
Best Outreach Program
2014 World Oil Awards
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Water Management Aspects
of Shale Plays
This course will provide the participants with a good overview of water management, and treatment strategies including topics on sourcing, transportation, storage, treatment technologies, disposal and the regulatory framework.
November 17-21
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Texas A&M University - Kingsville
Eagle Ford Center for Research, Education and Outreach
(EFCREO)
Free
Shale Oil and Gas Development Workshop:
Management of Water Resources, Air Resources and Oilfield Waste
November 18
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Request for Applications Education & Outreach Community Grants
The AirWaterGas Sustainability Research Network (SRN) at the University of Colorado Boulder is pleased to announce a Request for Applications for K-12 and community-led projects that improve awareness of sustainable pathways for energy development.
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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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