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Oil drilling boom brings trouble to farm, ranch lands
2015-09-13 01:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Carl Johnson and son Justin, who have complained for years about spills of oilfield wastewater where they raise cattle in the high plains of New Mexico, stroll across a 1acre patch of sandy soil lifeless, save for a scattering of stunted weeds. Five years ago, a broken pipe soaked the land with as much as 420,000 gallons of wastewater, a salty drilling byproduct that killed the shrubs and grass. It was among dozens of spills that have damaged the Johnsons` grazing lands and made them worry...
Saipem wins onshore drilling contracts in Kuwait, Peru and Columbia
2015-09-11 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Italian oil and gas firm Saipem has won onshore drilling contracts worth around $250m in the Middle East and South America.
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ITF and Clearview launch project to advance camera technology for drilling operations
2015-09-10 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Oil industry trade organisation the Industry Technology Facilitator (ITF) has launched a joint industry project with Australia-based Clearview Well Services to progress camera technology that could deliver savings during offshore drilling operations.
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Drilling boom brings rising number of harmful waste spills
2015-09-08 14:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Carl Johnson and son Justin are third- and fourth-generation ranchers who for decades have battled oilfield companies that left a patchwork of barren earth where the men graze cattle in the high plains of New Mexico. Blunt and profane, they stroll across a 1 1/2-acre patch of sandy soil lifeless, save for a scattering of stunted weeds. Five years ago, a broken pipe soaked the land with as much as 420,000 gallons of oilfield wastewater a salty and potentially toxic drilling byproduct that can...
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Greenland fines Greenpeace for drilling rig stunts
2015-09-07 21:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Greenland court on Monday fined Greenpeace over $26,000 for disrupting oil drilling off the island's coast, the latest chapter in the environmental group's fight to stop industrial development in the Arctic. Greenpeace activists boarded or tried to board an exploration rig belonging to Cairn Energy three times in 2011. The Edinburgh-based company drilled five prospective wells that year but none found commercial quantities of hydrocarbons. Greenpeace's campaigns in the Arctic have run into trouble...
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