#oil and gas wells

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from the New York Times:

The Biden administration on Friday made it more expensive for fossil fuel companies to pull oil, gas and coal from public lands, raising royalty rates for the first time in 100 years in a bid to end bargain basement fees enjoyed by one of the country’s most profitable industries.

The government also increased more than tenfold the cost of the bonds that companies must secure before they start drilling.

The new rules are among a series of environmental regulations that are being pushed out as President Biden, in the last year of his term in the White House, seeks to cement policies designed to protect public lands, lower fossil fuel emissions and expand renewable energy.

While the oil and gas industry is strongly opposed to higher rates, the increase is not expected to significantly discourage drilling. The federal rate had been much lower than what many states and private landowners charge for drilling leases on state or private property.

#fossil fuel industry #mining #oil and gas wells #public lands

[mossy-paws]

Subspace doodles (PHIGHTING! Mermaid au)

so I was thinking more about the PHIGHTING mermaid au I’m doing and. What if subspaces’ gas- instead of being like actual gas, was polluted oil? I think that could make for a really cool trope if I ever were to redesign him for it :3!

For the design notes in specific:

When out of control, his “gas” takes the form of polluted oil, in control (as in wearing his mask and tank) it gets filtered into something akin to toxic brine (in which long exposure to can cause a lot of issues, specifically different types of shock, breathing issues, etc). Although the brine isn’t too dangerous to be around in small amounts, it can be harmful over time.

for those wondering what ACTUAL brine water (or more specifically brine pools) are, it’s pretty much a large accumulation of highly concentrated saltwater (which usually is around 10 times saltier then the ocean surrounding it) For most sea animals this brine means instant death due to the fact that is has no oxygen in it as well as the high saline levels.

(Im hyper fixating again can you tell)

#AUUUUUGH #ME WJEN THE #ME WHEN THE OCEAN IS THE COOLEST THING EVER #Anyways yeah! My inner marine biologist is coming out again it seems! #I think this would would pretty well for squidspace #Unfiltered his gas is polluted oil and filtered its lower concentrations of brine #Subspaces filtered brine I feel like would be around a 2-4 on how salty it is compared to the rest of the water #I also imagine that the oil he produces can be collected- and is used to help power the biografts #His urchins are also INCREDIBLY unstable #And will explode if thrown/stepped on/and or are handled a bit too roughly #To subspace hes immune to their affects #But to others they can be really dangerous as oil can stick to fins/gills/or mouths #Anyways enjoy this small thing #i love the world building for this au so much #I’m so proud of myself for coming up with it #I can’t WAIT for mermay >:3 #art #artists on tumblr #phighting fanart #phighting! #digital art #roblox phighting #phighting #phighting art #roblox #phighting roblox #phighting! roblox #phighting! art #phighting! subspace #subspace tripmine

[runawaymarbles]

“You should have to pass a quiz on current issues and/or take an IQ test to vote”. Bad. Racist. Easily weaponized. Not democratic.

“You should have to read (1) newspaper from the last seven days before sharing your hot take on someone else’s tumblr post”. Intriguing. Has potential. Might bring about world peace.

#this post is about the same old ao3 arguments #but also applies to posts like the one claiming trump's impeachment trial was hhushed up #or people who keep chiming in on my post about gas prices being like #'well they HAVE to charge more because evil joe biden took away their oil' like please log off and look at the outside world #and also shell's profit margins lmao #anyway #op

[poojagblog-blog]

The global Digital Oilfield Market is expected to reach USD 43.0 billion by 2029 from USD 30.1 billion in 2023 at a CAGR of 6.3% during the forecast period according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets™.

#oil and gas industry #oilfields #oil and gas companies #oil and gas #oil #digital oilfield market #digital oilfield #oilfield #offshore oilfield #oilfieldlife #energy #energia #oil and gas drilling #offshore oil and gas #oil and gas production #digital oilfields #digitalization #offshore oilwell #oil wells #technology #oil and gas exploration #oil rig #offshore drilling #drilling optimization #Production Optimization #reservoir management #onshore

[chronicsheepdrawing]

KOSA Bill. In three days, the bill will either pass or be disgarded. Please reblog and sign petitions. to help stop the bill by going to the stop kosa tag so we can not let the bill pass!

The definition of not safe for work content that would be censored under KOSA is vague and would of course target the LGBT community.

#not art #I'm so tired okay #A Tennessee Governor has allowed public officials to deny same sex marriages if it makes them uncomfortable #Alabama ruled that frozen embryos count as children #and would make it so women trying to get pregnant through IVF can only do so one egg at a time #Even if the egg is knowingly not viable #This process takes months and would be for nothing #Cops can open fire on you or run you over and joke about it with no consequences #As well as cop cities opening over the majority of states and being supported by Israel where they can better train our police in abuse #The industry I want to go into is experiencing massive layoffs and people simply aren't valued as it's all about shareholders and investors #And to top it all off the planet is still dying due to climate change caused by oil and gas companies and their CEOs #Both me and my mom are unemployed and we definitely couldn't afford the place we've been provided if it weren't for assistance #And I'm worried something will get screwed up and we'll just get evicted and this'll all be for nothing #I just don't see the point anymore #I only exist to provide shelter to my family as the apartment is in my name and to hopefully try and pay back those have donated to me #Besides that I just go through every day not seeing any upside to continuing to live but not committed to die

[just-about-nothing]

whyd dc cuck oliver queen by making him rich again we have bruce we dont need two billionaire assholes running around we need one billionaire asshole and a blond asshole who wants to redistribute his wealth more than anything else and theyre constantly fighting about it

i hear your bruce & oliver were frenemies in boarding school headcanon & raise you actually oliver has no money & thinks bruce is lame as fuck for being rich and wants to fight him on sight for it

#i rant #green arrow #oliver queen #dc #'did queen industries go down or w/e what's the vibe here''oooooh he's just like a murdery leftie very rad very cool we love to see it' #literally the whole arc of how oliver becomes rich is DUMB AS FUCK we do not approve lordy #in the ideal universe oliver and anarkey team up & ollie rehabs anarkey much to bruces consternation #tbc i'm not talking about like another speedy i'm talking about radical leftie oliver being like. #well this is how u can enact leftie change w.o bringing bats down on you. but if you rlly wanna take a swing at batman heres the weak spots #actually given how many of the rogues are left wing in their ideology (ivy ra's anarky at least) leftie ollie would be doubly pissed at bruc #'youre telling me ra's had a hitlist of oil & nat'l gas executives & you tried to stop him from killing them???? wtf bruce' #<- actual plot of ra's' & bats' latest issue together #ANYWAY. justice for murdery leftie green arrow!! #i literally forgot to provide context. i'm reading green arrow88. oliver was not wealthy from the early 70s to the 2000s

[bunnyb34r]

Utterly exhausted from getting all the spring wear bullshit in at once nonstop for like two weeks 😭 I'm so tired man

#i napped but it wasnt a good nap bc i never nap well unless everyone is home like ive always been like this it's a weird paranoia thing #anyway i wont even get to really sleep on my day off bc my car is yelling at me to get my oil changed (gonna start yelling to get gas too. #the area where the milage counter is is a little screen and it tells you when your fuel is low (under 50 miles left) snd it's been telling #me since friday 'change oil soon') and boy oh boy i love getting up at 8am and waiting in smelly radair to drop off my keys and go home #(it smells like cleaner but a gross cleaner imo. no wait new car smell thats it) and Thursday and Friday i have appts so i wont be able to #rest til Saturday and i know this stress is gonna take a while to go away bc it was two straight weeks of hell on my body #marquilla #im so tired of this man

[kagrenacs]

I am against the widespread use and dependence on cars from an environmental perspective, safety and an ease of use perspective. There needs to be more public transport options, especially in rural areas!! But god I love my stupid little car so much. she sure gets me to places

#a lot of my personal aesthetics and butch identity has been formed around cars as well. my dad is a mechanic and my aunts are bikers #but I know this isn't a sustainable practice for the future and my province's utter dependency on oil and gas will end it

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

Last month, with California in the grips of a megadrought, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a plan centered on “the acute need to conserve water” in the face of a drier, hotter future caused by climate change. The plan outlines actions to “transform water management” and calls on California residents to step up and do their part to conserve water.

Yet the plan does nothing to limit use of California’s dwindling water supplies by one of the primary drivers of climate change: the oil and gas industry.  

An Inside Climate News analysis of data collected by the California Geologic Energy Management Division, or CalGEM, shows high-quality water is being diverted from state domestic and agricultural supplies, predominantly in Kern County, to extract viscous crude from some of the world’s most climate-polluting oilfields.

The analysis also reveals deep problems with the quality of the data collected by CalGEM that make it very difficult to establish the quantities of water used to produce oil—despite a 2014 law that was supposed to overhaul the industry’s water-use reporting in order to provide greater transparency.

Oil and gas extraction in California uses tens of billions of gallons of water each year. It also generates massive amounts of wastewater, known as “produced water,” which returns to the surface with extracted fuels. This produced water is laced with cancer-causing chemicals added to facilitate oil extraction, harmful petroleum-derived compounds and naturally occurring toxic elements such as arsenic and radium.

Although most of the water the industry injects into wells to help extract oil is recycled produced water that is used again to pry out more oil, some extraction techniques require high-quality water. Under these circumstances, it can be cheaper to buy clean water from municipal suppliers than it is to treat produced water to remove contaminants.

Extracting heavy crude oil in parts of Kern County requires more water, and disproportionate amounts of high-quality water, than other regions in California because the oil is so viscous and the wells are so old.

Kern County produces about three-quarters of California’s onshore oil and gas, but wells there account for more than 99.5 percent of this high-quality water injected for fossil fuel extraction across California, according to the Inside Climate News analysis. This water could otherwise go to farms and municipalities that have had to ration their water supplies.

#California #water management #oil and gas wells

[permanentreverie]

a moment of joy in days of tired darkness!!!

#i complain way too much here so sharing my triumphs <3 #(taking a page from songbird because i want to be more like her) #getting home from work today i was able to get ALL of my chores done!!! #i loooved having my friend stay with me for a week i truly needed the break and she’s such a blessing <3 #(we bought ‘soul sisters’ matching bracelets - hers gold and mine silver - and the statement couldn’t be more true 🥹) #but in that i let my room get VERY messy #and i was busing working yesterday and didn’t have time (literally cried on my way home because of how tired i was) #so i made it a goal to do everything tonight so tomorrow (my one day off) i may relax! #so i was able to clean my room; do two loads of laundry; wash my bedding; vacuum; water my plants; and tidy my bathroom!! #it may not sound like much but it was a MESS #also i did my nails cause they broke :( #so now they are VERY short (had to cut them) and i painted a few coats of clear nail polish so hopefully they won’t break #i have to get gas and get my oil changed and exchange some icecream tomorrow morning #but then i’m just gonna relax!!! #would like to change my themes but we shall see. i want to watch tv and read mostly #also i’m gonna stop in and book a hair appointment for next week!! #that’s right i’m gonna chop off my hair #it’s been years and i didn’t get it trimmed as it was growing out so i have lots of split and dead ends #and if i have to get it cut i may as well just go all the way yknow #i love having short hair and i’m lowkey excited #and i work 6 days after that but thankfully i booked myself for opening shifts which leaves my evenings free to myself which i really love

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

California law banning new drilling near homes, schools heads to voters after oil pushback

BY LINDSEY HOLDEN AND STEPHEN HOBBS

A California law banning new drilling near homes, schools and hospitals will head to voters after an oil industry-backed referendum qualified for the November 2024 ballot.

The Secretary of State’s Office announced on Friday the campaign challenging Senate Bill 1137 had gathered enough signatures for a ballot measure.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the measure in 2022, and it went into effect on Jan. 1. It prohibits the state from approving new oil and gas wells within 3,200 feet of hospitals, schools and homes. It also requires existing wells to meet certain health, safety and environmental standards in the future.

The California Independent Petroleum Association (CIPA) said in December that it spearheaded the referendum effort. The group reported collecting more than 978,000 signatures.

“Senate Bill 1137 threatens the livelihoods of over 50,000 hardworking Californians and forces the state to rely on more expensive, imported foreign oil that is completely exempt from California’s strict environmental laws,” CIPA CEO Rock Zierma said in an emailed statement.

The bill was part of a package of environmental laws pushed by Newsom and faced strong industry opposition before it passed in August.

“Greedy oil companies know that drilling results in more kids getting asthma, more children born with birth defects, and more communities exposed to toxic, dangerous chemicals,” Newsom said in a statement. “But they would rather put our health at risk than sacrifice a single cent of their billions in profits.”

The initiative is the latest industry-backed referendum to qualify for the November 2024 ballot. A campaign against a law creating a California fast food council meant to improve conditions for workers also gathered enough signatures to appear before voters.

#us politics #news #The Sacramento Bee #2023 #California #gov. gavin newsom #fossil fuels #big oil #oil drilling #Senate Bill 1137 #oil wells #natural gas wells #California Independent Petroleum Association #Rock Zierma #environmental protection

[nerdblob]

#jacob: a constant temptation to stomp my foot down on the gas just to hear that thirsty V8 engine purr #enoch: a real beast - Britians first true muscle car #enoch: im fascinated by the mechanical as well as the biomedical Organs.Engines. swap oil for blood and they arent so different #seriously #bro #these dudes love that car #meanwhile emma: defined not over abe but hey no ones policing my incredibly odd and sometome sweet love life so imma take it out on jacob #we do still love emma tho #1979 aston martin vanatage #a map of days #miss peregrines home for peculiar children #miss peregrine book #miss peregrine imagine #jacob portman #ransom riggs #text post #queen band #im in love with my car #incorrect quotes #fandom

[kp777]

By Zack Budryck

The Hill

July 10, 2023

The Interior Department announced Monday more than $650 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding to plug abandoned oil and gas wells. The $660 million in funding, available to 27 states, will go toward the plugging of so-called orphan wells, or wells abandoned for extraction by the oil and gas industry.

Read more.

#orphaned gas and oil wells #bipartisan infrastructure law #greenhouse gas emissions #climate crisis

[townhulls]

thinking about the small serbian child i met a couple years ago who told me he could name the price of gas at every gas station in the area. i said ‘oh, really?’ and he IMMEDIATELY started listing numbers. like thirty seconds of gas prices later his extremely tall father came up to me and told me that the child made him drive around the entire city every day just so he could see that day’s gas prices

#i was serving free lunch at a public park and this kid would come every day and tell me about the gas prices. i hope he’s doing well #he also would’ve LOVED the 70s oil crisis #bees speaks

[enderspawn]

OKAY. 12:30. LEAVE. GET OIL CHANGE. GAS UP CAR. HEAD OUT OF TOWN BY 1:15ISH. SUCCEED

#got my files printed! #my car doesn’t technically need gas— I’ve got like 170milws in the tank and it’s a 50mi drive one way but. eh. while I’m there. #so if for whatever reason everything goes Wrong I can prob skip it #plus the oil change place says they take walk ins and it takes like 15 minutes so it should be good #anyway! I spent 8 dollars printing materials for this interview 👍 #(she made a 7page document that could’ve easily been black and white in color) #(and then printed it twice) #FUCK WRONG BLOG. #well I’m too lazy to retype all this so. preview of Personal Bullshti you can find @/chipjrwibignaturals #og post #personal

[pride-of-storm]

"fracking causes earthquakes" seemed like psuedoscience fearmongering to me but if i'm understanding this wikipedia article correctly it's? true?

#most human induced earthquakes are too mild to be felt much less cause damage #but timing and scale are unpredictable! #anyway injecting liquid at scale is the biggest risk factor #which includes all fracking; some natural gas and oil production; and potentially carbon capture and sequestration #even the oklahoma geological survey acknowledges (since 2015) that increase in earthquakes is bc of oil industry wastewater #anyway. most very very minor but it can go Real Bad if not lroperly considered #a couple have caused dam failures which is always not good and sometimes Extremely Bad #anyway deep disposal wells now deeply concern me #oil and gas industries are of course opposed to this conclusion #fuck i hate industry lobbies #immediate profit at any cost!! #storm's posts #earthquakes are actually the least of the environmental costs of fossil fuels (: #ogs quote is 'very likely' i forgot how tag system interprets double quotes whoops