ONSHORE |
UNCONVENTIONAL |
Induced Seismicity and Innovations in Managing Risk—Day 2 |
PROCEEDINGS OF A WORKSHOP
Elizabeth A. Eide, Rapporteur
Roundtable on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development
Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Water Science and Technology Board
Division on Earth and Life Studies
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This activity was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under grant no. G-2015-14016, the American Association of Petroleum Geologist Foundation, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement under contract no. E15PC00008, the Colorado School of Mines, The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, the Environmental Defense Fund, Flinders University, GE Oil and Gas, the Ohio State University, Schlumberger Limited, Texas A&M University, the U.S. Department of Energy under award no. DE-FE0027898, West Virginia University, and XTO Energy Inc. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization or agency that provided support for the project.
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PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR THE WORKSHOP ON ONSHORE UNCONVENTIONAL HYDROCARBON DEVELOPMENT: LEGACY ISSUES AND INNOVATIONS in Managing Risk
BRIAN J. ANDERSON, Co-Chair, West Virginia University
JULIA HOBSON HAGGERTY, Co-Chair, Montana State University
MELISSA BATUM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Department of the Interior
SUSAN L. BRANTLEY (NAS), The Pennsylvania State University
JEFFREY J. DANIELS, The Ohio State University
PAUL DOUCETTE, General Electric
DAVID GLATT, North Dakota Department of Health and Environmental Council of the States’ Shale Gas Caucus
STEVEN P. HAMBURG, Environmental Defense Fund
JOE LIMA, Schlumberger Services, Inc.
JAN MARES, Resources for the Future
KRIS J. NYGAARD, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co.
AMY PICKLE, Duke University
Staff
ELIZABETH A. EIDE, Senior Board Director
ED J. DUNNE, Program Officer (up to June 16, 2017)
NICHOLAS D. ROGERS, Financial and Research Associate
YASMIN ROMITTI, Research Associate
COURTNEY R. DeVANE, Administrative Coordinator
ERIC J. EDKIN, Senior Program Assistant
RAYMOND CHAPPETTA, Senior Program Assistant
BOARD ON EARTH SCIENCES AND RESOURCES
GENE WHITNEY, Chair, Congressional Research Service (Retired), Washington, DC
R. LYNDON (LYN) ARSCOTT (NAE), International Association of Oil & Gas Producers (Retired), Danville, California
CHRISTOPHER (SCOTT) CAMERON, Geological Consulting, LLC, Houston, Texas
RODNEY C. EWING (NAE), Stanford University, Stanford, California
CAROL P. HARDEN, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
THORNE LAY (NAS), University of California, Santa Cruz
ANN S. MAEST, Buka Environmental, Boulder, Colorado
ZELMA MAINE-JACKSON, Washington State Department of Ecology, Richland
MARTIN W. MCCANN, Jack R. Benjamin Associates and Stanford University, Menlo Park, California
JAMES M. ROBERSTON, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey (retired), Allouez, Michigan
JAMES A. SLUTZ, National Petroleum Council, Washington, DC
SHAOWEN WANG, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
Staff
ELIZABETH A. EIDE, Senior Board Director
ANNE M. LINN, Scholar
DEBORAH GLICKSON, Senior Program Officer
SAMMANTHA L. MAGSINO, Senior Program Officer
NICHOLAS D. ROGERS, Financial and Research Associate
COURTNEY R. DeVANE, Administrative Coordinator
YASMIN ROMITTI, Research Associate
ERIC J. EDKIN, Senior Program Assistant
RAYMOND CHAPPETTA, Senior Program Assistant
CARLY BRODY, Senior Program Assistant
WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BOARD
CATHERINE L. KLING (NAS), Chair, Iowa State University, Ames
DAVID A. DZOMBAK (NAE), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
WENDY D. GRAHAM, University of Florida, Gainesville
ARTURO A. KELLER, University of California, Santa Barbara
MARK W. LECHEVALLIER, Dr. Water Consulting, LLC
DINAH LOUDA, Veolia Institute, Paris, France
MARGARET PALMER, University of Maryland, College Park
STEPHEN POLASKY (NAS), University of Minnesota, St. Paul
DAVID L. SEDLAK (NAE), University of California, Berkeley
DAVID WEGNER, Jacobs Engineering, Tucson, Arizona
P. KAY WHITLOCK, Christopher B. Burke Engineering, Ltd., Rosemont, Illinois
JAMES W. ZIGLAR, SR., Van Ness Feldman, Washington, DC
Staff
ELIZABETH A. EIDE, Senior Board Director
LAURA J. EHLERS, Senior Program Officer
STEPHANIE E. JOHNSON, Senior Program Officer
M. JEANNE AQUILINO, Financial and Administrative Associate
BRENDAN R. MCGOVERN, Research Assistant/Senior Program Assistant
CARLY BRODY, Senior Program Assistant
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Preface
A workshop on December 1 and 2, 2016 at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC, organized under the auspices of the National Academies’ Roundtable on Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development, comprised two parts related by the common element of managing risk related to the development of onshore unconventional oil and gas resources such as shale oil and shale gas. The second part of the workshop, on December 2, is described in this proceedings volume and addresses issues associated with induced seismicity and managing the risk of induced seismic events associated with development of oil and gas fields. The first day of the workshop on December 1 addressed environmental legacy issues (e.g., potential impacts to water, land, and air) and innovations in managing potential risks to the environment as unconventional hydrocarbon development proceeds. These topics are described in a companion proceedings volume entitled “Onshore Unconventional Hydrocarbon Development: Environmental Legacy Issues and Innovations in Managing Risk—Day 1: Proceedings of a Workshop.”
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Acknowledgments
This Proceedings of a Workshop was reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in making each published proceedings as sound as possible and to ensure that it meets the institutional standards for quality, objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the process.
We thank the following individuals for their review of this proceedings:
Tandis Bidgoli, Kansas Geological Survey
Patrick Drohan, The Pennsylvania State University
Kris J. Nygaard, ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
Paul Segall, Stanford University
Chi Ho Sham, Eastern Research Group, Inc.
Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the content of the proceedings nor did they see the final draft before its release. The review of this proceedings was overseen by Derek Elsworth, The Pennsylvania State University. He was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this proceedings was carried out in accordance with standards of the National Academies and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content rests entirely with the rapporteur and the National Academies.
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