Technologies Reduce Pad Size, Waste - ALL …

By Dan Arthur and Dave CornueTULSA Since the turn of the millen-nium, new onshore oil and gas develop-ment has increasingly focused on uncon-ventional reservoirs such as oil from theBakken Shale of the Williston Basin andnatural gas from numerous shale gasplays ( , Barnett Shale, FayettevilleShale, Haynesville Shale, and MarcellusShale). In some plays, including muchof the Marcellus Shale, this involvesdrilling in areas that have limited experi-ence with oil and gas development. Thishas resulted in increasing levels of publicconcern and in some cases outright re-sistance to resource development. Two topics of concern frequently ex-pressed by regulators, nongovernmentalorganizations, and the public are surfacedisturbance and Waste management. Notsurprisingly, surface disturbance is one ofthe most readily apparent consequencesof resource development. Waste generationis often greater for unconventional reservoirsthan it is for conventional plays, primarilybecause high volume hydraulic fracturing(HVHF), which is typically necessary toeconomically develop low-permeabilityunconventional reservoirs, creates largevolumes of Waste water.

(e.g., pipelines and compressors). To ad - dress this inevitability, oil and gas com - panies have adopted a mantra of avoiding environmental impacts when possible,

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