BP OIL History Exposed 1of 5
Over the past decade, BP vaulted from an energy "also-ran" to one of the biggest companies in the world, gobbling up competitors in a ...
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Seguin man killed in West Texas oilfield accident - News9.com ...
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) - An oilfield accident in West Texas has killed a worker who was crushed by some pipes he was trying to move.
Midland County Fire Marshal Dale Little says the victim was 44-year-old Ronnie Lynn May of Seguin (sih-GEEN').
Little says some pipes apparently slipped and May was crushed. May was pronounced dead Monday afternoon at a hospital.
Relatives say May had worked for Tulsa, Okla.,-based contractor Helmerich & Payne Inc. for several years.
...George Mitchell: The duty to fracture responsibly
By George P. Mitchell and Mark D. ZobackNatural gas is a wondrous fuel. It emits less carbon dioxide, less mercury, less nitrogen oxide, less sulfur oxide than any other hydrocarbon energy source. Natural gas is the perfect bridge fuel on the way to a less carbon-dependent economy. There is no question that accidents have occurred and mistakes have been made during the rush to develop this vast new resource, but this remarkable resource can be developed by industry following region-specific best practices and regulators carefully monitoring industry activities.
Far below the city of Fort Worth is a geological formation of sedimentary rocks that was shaped 354 to 323 million years ago – give or take an eon.
Take a much smaller jump back in time, to the 1970s, when an independent Texas company, Mitchell Energy & Development Corp., drilled into this ancient formation without much success. Company rigs had pulled up some curious rock samples of organic-rich shales (sedimentary rocks with large amounts of clay) indicating that natural gas in abundance, millions of years old, was trapped in these sediments. But because of the extremely low permeability of the shales, even the best engineers and geologists in the industry had no way to produce it in commercial quantities.
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