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Legislative Issues
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Resource Assessment and Production
Shale gas and other unconventional natural gas resources
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Tight oil (shale oil and other unconventional oil resources)
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Technical Issues
Geology (oil and gas formations, aquifers, induced seismicity)
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Hydraulic fracturing/well stimulation processes
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Natural gas flaring, venting, and fugitive emissions
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Oil and gas drilling and production processes
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Pipelines and distribution
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Induced seismicity (earthquakes)
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Well construction and operation
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Markets and Utilization
Consumption
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Imports, Exports, and Trade
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Trade (legal aspects, World Trade Organization)
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International Issues
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Source: Prepared by Congressional Research Service.
Legislative Issues
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Air Quality
Clean Air Act (CAA) standards, green completions, fugitive emissions, methane emissions, life cycle analysis, etc.
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Chemical Disclosure (Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids)
Legal aspects, state laws
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Federal requirements
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Chemicals/toxicity/reporting
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BLM chemical disclosure regulations
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BLM water management requirements
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Natural gas flaring, venting, and fugitive emissions
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Oil and gas leases (general)
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Oil and gas leasing (legal aspects)
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National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
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Legal aspects (NEPA)
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Water Quality and Wastewater Management
Clean Water Act (CWA), surface water discharges, flowback and produced water treatment
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Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), protection of drinking water and ground water
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Underground Injection Control (UIC) program: wastewater disposal by injection wells, induced seismicity
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Legal aspects (hydraulic fracturing, SDWA, UIC)
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Water Resources
Water requirements
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Wastewater recycling (flowback and produced water)
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Water rights and allocation, water law
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Interstate water compacts
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Hazardous Substance Releases
"Superfund" (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or CERCLA), release investigation and response
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Source: Prepared by Congressional Research Service.
Author Contact Information
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Hydraulic fracturing is done after a well is drilled and involves injecting large volumes of water, sand (or other propping agent), and specialized chemicals under enough pressure to fracture the formations holding the oil or gas. The sand or other proppant holds the fractures open to allow the oil or gas to flow freely out of the formation and into a production well. See CRS Report R43148, An Overview of Unconventional Oil and Natural Gas: Resources and Federal Actions, by [author name scrubbed] and [author name scrubbed] and CRS Report R41760, Hydraulic Fracturing and Safe Drinking Water Act Regulatory Issues, by [author name scrubbed] and [author name scrubbed]. |