oil and gas drinking water Articles
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Report to Congressional Requestors: Drinking Water
Every day in the United States, at least 2 billion gallons of fluids are injected into over 172,000 wells to enhance oil and gas production, or to dispose of fluids brought to the surface during the extraction of oil and gas resources. These wells are subject to regulation to protect drinking water sources under EPA’s UIC class II program and approved state class II programs. Because much ...
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Get Schooled in Water Safety and Microbial Monitoring with LuminUltra Academy
It’s not often you come across a company so committed to educating its customers and partners that it develops an entire suite of training courses, but that’s exactly what led to the creation of LuminUltra Academy. Access to this new, web-based training and certification center is available to anyone with an interest in learning more about how to monitor and manage the risks posed ...
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Baseline groundwater quality in unconventional oil and gas fields
In recent years, expansion of unconventional oil and gas production has prompted significant interest in potential impacts on drinking water resources. In many cases, water quality investigations rely on access to landowner water wells to develop baseline data prior to drilling; respond to spills, complaints, or incidents; or evaluate potential impacts due to drilling, completion, hydraulic ...
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Answers to questions about oil waste in California aquifers
California, the country's third-largest oil-producing state, has improperly given oil companies more than 2,500 permits to inject production fluids and oilfield waste into underground water supplies that are used for drinking water or irrigation, state records show. Nearly half of those disposal wells were approved or first started injections in the last four years under Gov. Jerry Brown, an ...
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Building water system resilience with a digital roadmap
As water-reliant businesses increasingly focus on the growing challenge of disaster management in response to both natural and manmade events, process monitoring software suites have emerged as a key element when it comes to business continuity and resilience planning. More than any other component, water is essential in countless industries and business sectors, as well as a vital element for ...
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