Proposed study aims to analyze environmental impact of onshore drilling

A proposed study wants to look at the environmental impact of drilling, especially in shale developments, to determine how resource development can occur without negative impacts.

To illustrate how, and ultimately if, oil and gas extraction onshore can occur without impacting the environment, a proposed study by National Oilwell Varco (NOV) and Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems Program (EFD) is aiming to address current drilling and completion practices that impact the environment, practices that have been developed to protect the environment and what more can be done. A comprehensive questionnaire and workshops would be used to compile a report that also addresses regulations, best practices, public perceptions, environmental concerns that impact drilling and regional reviews.

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Rig impact employment

 

Marketplace radio passed along to listeners the oil industry assertion that it was spending $300 million a month on the wages of workers on offshore drilling rigs that have been idled by President Obama's moratorium on new deep water drilling. The Washington Post reports that the ban has idled 33 deep-water drilling rigs.

If the average worker on a rig earns $100,000 a year, the industry's claim about lost wages would imply that it was employing 36,000 workers, or more than 1,000 on each idled rig. This seems implausibly high, and should cause reporters to question the industry's claim rather than just report it as being true. (The industry has an incentive to exaggerate the impact of the moratorium on workers since it helps to advance its agenda of ending the moratorium.)

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