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CU-Boulder Offers Well Users Guide for Testing Water in Areas of Oil and Gas Development
...Williams said. “The most accurate baselines are collected before energy extraction begins, but if drilling has already begun, well owners can still test their water to establish a belated baseline...
New Online Database Charts Water Quality Regulations Related to Oil and Gas Development
...in examining regulatory regimes already in effect in order to guide conversations about best regulatory practices.” Oil and gas production has increased nationwide as technological developments improved directional drilling...
Intermountain Oil and Gas Best Management Practices Project
...helps stakeholders identify appropriate practices for minimizing impacts to surface resources during planning, design, construction, drilling, operations, reclamation, and monitoring. BMP Project resources can also help stakeholders learn to work...
Colorado’s energy future explored in upcoming talks
...Environmental and Architectural Engineering Over the past decade, hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling have accelerated extraction of oil and natural gas in Colorado and across the United States. In Colorado,...
CU-Boulder Workshop Invites Public to Discuss Oil and Gas Development and Groundwater Protection on Nov. 26
...Friendly Drilling Project and a CU-Boulder Outreach Award. The Colorado Water and Energy Research Center, led by Mark Williams, CU-Boulder professor of geography, provides a neutral clearinghouse for information...
NSF Awards CU-Boulder-led Team $12 Million to Study Effects of Natural Gas Development
...natural gas for easier extraction. The team will evaluate the current state of drilling technology, the integrity of well bore casings and natural gas collection mechanisms and processes. Hydraulic fracturing...
CU-Boulder Releases New 9-Minute Video About Population, Consumption and Climate
...globally in petroleum. “New technologies in drilling for natural gas doesn’t change our supplies,” he points out. “It doesn’t change the amount of oil or natural gas that’s in the...
CU-Boulder Summer INVST Program Culminates in Meeting with State Officials
...explored areas of the Rocky Mountain wilderness, learned about the impacts of oil and gas drilling on Colorado’s Western Slope, and gaineda deeper understanding about innovative solutions through sustainable technologies.They...