Natural gas

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A critical review of the risks to water resources from unconventional shale gas development and hydraulic fracturing in the United States. 
  • Aerial Interyear Comparison and Quantification of Methane Emissions Persistence in the Bakken Formation of North Dakota, USA. 
  • Effects of Environmental Temperature Change on the Efficiency of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants. 
  • Environmental implications of United States coal exports: a comparative life cycle assessment of future power system scenarios. 
  • Evaluating Environmental Governance along Cross-Border Electricity Supply Chains with Policy-Informed Life Cycle Assessment: The California-Mexico Energy Exchange. 
  • Exploring the hydraulic fracturing parameter space: a novel high-pressure, high-throughput reactor system for investigating subsurface chemical transformations. 
  • Fuel prices, emission standards, and generation costs for coal vs natural gas power plants. 
  • Halogenation Chemistry of Hydraulic Fracturing Additives under Highly Saline Simulated Subsurface Conditions. 
  • Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) and the Clean Air Act. 
  • Hydrocarbon-Rich Groundwater above Shale-Gas Formations: A Karoo Basin Case Study. 
  • Implications of shale gas development for climate change 
  • In situ transformation of ethoxylate and glycol surfactants by shale-colonizing microorganisms during hydraulic fracturing. 
  • Indications of Transformation Products from Hydraulic Fracturing Additives in Shale-Gas Wastewater. 
  • Managing wastewater from fracking, with Robert B. Jackson by Ahearn Ashley. 
  • Mapping urban pipeline leaks: methane leaks across Boston. 
  • Methane emissions from natural gas infrastructure and use in the urban region of Boston, Massachusetts. 
  • Natural Gas Residual Fluids: Sources, Endpoints, and Organic Chemical Composition after Centralized Waste Treatment in Pennsylvania. 
  • Natural gas pipeline leaks across Washington, DC. 
  • Origin of Flowback and Produced Waters from Sichuan Basin, China. 
  • Pre-drill Groundwater Geochemistry in the Karoo Basin, South Africa. 
  • Residential Solar PV Systems in the Carolinas: Opportunities and Outcomes. 
  • Response to Comment on "Effects of Environmental Temperature Change on the Efficiency of Coal- and Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants". 
  • Risks and risk governance in unconventional shale gas development. 
  • State of knowledge about energy development impacts on North American rangelands: An integrative approach. 
  • Unconventional oil and gas chemicals and wastewater-impacted water samples promote adipogenesis via PPARγ-dependent and independent mechanisms in 3T3-L1 cells. 
  • Water Availability for Shale Gas Development in Sichuan Basin, China. 
  • Water Use and Management in the Bakken Shale Oil Play in North Dakota. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Pratson, Lincoln F., Gendell Family Professor of Energy and Environment, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Vengosh, Avner, Professor of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Duke University Energy Initiative