Sustainable Shale Oil and Gas. Analytical Chemistry, Geochemistry, and Biochemistry Methods

✍ Scribed by Vikram Rao, Rob Knight

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 172
• Series: Emerging issues in analytical chemistry
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Shale oil and gas have altered the energy landscape, possibly permanently. They burst upon the fossil energy scene with a suddenness that initially defied prediction. Even the political balance of the world has changed. But, with the methods employed, the vast majority of the oil and gas remains in the ground. At the same time, serious environmental impact issues have been raised. A new volume in the Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry series, Sustainable Shale Oil and Gas Production: Analytical, Biochemical, and Geochemical Methods was written on the premise that analytical methods to inform these areas were wanting. While not attempting to be comprehensive, it describes important analytical methods, some still in development. These methods are underpinned primarily by chemistry, but geochemistry and even biochemistry play significant roles. The book has a solutions flavor; problems are posed together with approaches to ameliorate them.

• Provides a clear understanding of the potential environmental issues as well as a path to solutions
• Includes background information for understanding potential impacts of shale operations from both an environmental and public health perspective
• Authored by leaders from diverse disciplines with expertise in a variety of areas: groundwater quality, petroleum-related operations, microbial ecology, and electronic technologies
• Reviews new sensing and evaluation methods that could be key enablers to sustainable fracking: portable mass spectrometry, microbiome analysis, DNA as tracers, and a microparticulate matter detector

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-matter,Copyright,Dedication,List of Contributors,Foreword,Preface,AcknowledgmentsEntitled to full textChapter 1 - Background, Pages 1-7
Part I. Air Emissions, Page 9
Chapter 2 - Fugitive Methane and Emissions From Flaring, Pages 11-28
Chapter 3 - Detection of Methane and Amelioration, Pages 29-43
Chapter 4 - Particulate Matter and Volatile Organic Chemicals, Pages 45-57
Part II. The Potential for Contaminating Ground Water, Page 59
Chapter 5 - Methane in Groundwater, Pages 61-74
Chapter 6 - Potential for Liquid Contamination of Groundwater, Pages 75-91
Part III. Improving Economics of Recovery, Page 93
Chapter 7 - Illuminating the Reservoir, Pages 95-114
Chapter 8 - Improving Net Recovery of Fluids, Pages 115-130
Chapter 9 - Subsurface DNA Sequencing: A New Tool for Reservoir Characterization, Pages 131-150
Part IV. Informing Policy, Page 151
Chapter 10 - Enabling Regulations and Empowering the Public, Pages 153-164
Index, Pages 165-169

✦ Subjects

Sustainability;Fossil fuels;Shale oils;Natural gas;Biochemistry;Geochemistry;Chemistry, Analytic;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING;Power Resources;Fossil Fuels;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING;Chemical & Biochemical