By Shirley Evans


As more and more people and industries look to shale products for their energy needs, the negative environmental effects of exploration continue to pile up. Many nations that are blessed with extensive oil deposits still drill for oil using techniques that harm the environment. The massive awareness created at annual international energy summits has done little to help over the years. As it stands, clean fracking technology appears to be the last throw of the dice in the pursuit of green oil exploration techniques.

Many oil exploration companies are slowly starting to tap into the potential that technology has to create clean energy mining solutions. Years of research has resulted in the creation of pioneering improvements to the negative effects of fracking. While much of the American economy and that of other oil producing nations depends on the energy market to remain competitive, many stakeholders are willing to take a bet on newer exploration technologies.

Many of the improved solutions present at the moment have not been fully proven to result in the extraction of better volumes than what many firms are used to. Pioneering technologies all over the world are water free. The saving grace is that water free solutions are just what the environment needs. Other environment cautious firms use recycled water for their drilling operations.

Some notable solutions include the adoption of drilling techniques that prevent the escape of environmentally unsafe gases such as methane. This will be a big plus to the environment, especially bearing in mind the fact that methane is one of the biggest contributors to global warming. In light of this, there is increased support for the use of such techniques from green energy lobbyists.

As countries and green energy lobbyists continue to push for more research into cleaner solutions, a few innovations are beginning to leave a mark and get adopted massively. Water free drilling is one such solution. In this concept, a propane fluid is used in place of water. So far, it has registered a massive uptake among stakeholders and has greatly aided in conserving water bodies.

Water recycling and the use of brine is a predominant practice as well. These innovations came to be as a result of the open reliance on viscous fluids in well drilling and gas extraction. Today, companies have shifted their focus to non clean water as opposed to using clean water drawn from deep seated aquifers and lakes.

For years, carbon emitted from diesel fumes has been the most notorious contributor to greenhouse emissions. Despite this knowledge, there are exploration companies that still rely on diesel dependent machines for drilling, thereby contributing to global warming by a big margin. This is in spite of the fact that diesel is an expensive fuel. Luckily, the year 2013 saw the introduction of natural gas operated drilling equipment. Their usage has helped many companies lower their operational expenditure.

If the statistics are anything to go by, exploration firms that depend on them have managed to lower their fuel expenditure by 40 percent. In turn, they have generated more revenue and freed up crucial funds for further research. Authoritative figures in the exploration world even opine that diesel dependency can be cut by 70 percent in future.




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