Aims

Climate change impacts are lessened when power plants burn natural gas instead of coal, but the same is not necessarily true when vehicles burn natural gas instead of traditional fuels because methane leakage more than offsets the clean-burning benefits of gas, according to a methane leakage model developed by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and university researchers. However, the gas industry countered that the model relies on “outdated and incomplete” data.

As a marathon hunt continues for cases of a Canadian pipeline plague, an additional effort aims to catch up with a U.S. method of easily and rapidly distributing hazard information.

The Interior Department last Tuesday issued a proposed rule that aims to strengthen offshore workplace safety and environmental reforms that it issued nearly a year ago.

As a marathon hunt continues for cases of a Canadian pipeline plague, an additional effort aims to catch up with a U.S. method of easily and rapidly distributing hazard information.

The Interior Department Tuesday issued a proposed rule that aims to strengthen offshore workplace safety and environmental reforms that it issued nearly a year ago.

A new proposal in Pennsylvania aims to protect natural gas gathering lines in the quick growing Marcellus Shale region from accidentally getting damaged during excavation.

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) reintroduced legislation on Tuesday to increase regulations on hydraulic fracturing (hydrofracking), but the new bill is entering a different world than its predecessor.

Royal Dutch Shell and IBM Corp. announced a research collaboration that aims to extend the life of oil and natural gas fields. Shell said the project, which will explore advanced techniques for reconciling geophysical and reservoir engineering field data, has the potential to reduce the time and money required to model reservoirs. An enhanced mathematical optimization solution resulting from the collaboration would improve the cost-effectiveness of the data inversion process and would become part of Shell’s proprietary reservoir modeling tool kits for application in new oil and natural gas developments, as well as existing assets, Shell said. IBM and Shell research scientists will work in several laboratories in both the United States and The Netherlands.

Royal Dutch Shell and IBM Corp. announced a research collaboration that aims to extend the life of oil and natural gas fields. Shell said the project, which will explore advanced techniques for reconciling geophysical and reservoir engineering field data, has the potential to reduce the time and money required to model reservoirs. An enhanced mathematical optimization solution resulting from the collaboration would improve the cost-effectiveness of the data inversion process and would become part of Shell’s proprietary reservoir modeling tool kits for application in new oil and natural gas developments, as well as existing assets, Shell said. IBM and Shell research scientists will work in several laboratories in both the United States and The Netherlands.