Temporal variation in groundwater quality in the Permian Basin of Texas, a region of increasing unconventional oil and gas development

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 562, Issue , 2016, Pages 906-913

  Hildenbrand, Zacariah L ^a,b   Carlton, Doug D ^a   Fontenot, Brian E ^a,f   Meik, Jesse M ^a,c   Walton, Jayme L ^a   Thacker, Jonathan B ^a   Korlie, Stephanie ^a   Shelor, C Phillip ^a   Kadjo, Akinde F ^a   Clark, Adelaide ^d   Usenko, Sascha ^d   Hamilton, Jason S ^e   Mach, Phillip M ^e   Verbeck, Guido F ^e   Hudak, Paul ^e   Schug, Kevin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON   (United States)

^b Inform Environmental LLC   (United States)

^c TARLETON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^f U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater; Permian Basin; Shale energy; Unconventional oil and gas development

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DICHLOROMETHANE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HORIZONTAL DRILLING; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; NATURAL GAS WELL DRILLING; ORGANIC CARBON; SHALE OIL; WATER WELLS;

GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION; OIL EXTRACTION; PERMIAN BASINS; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UNCONVENTIONAL OIL AND GAS; WATER QUALITY PARAMETERS;

WATER QUALITY;

BROMIDE; GROUND WATER; ORGANIC CARBON; NATURAL GAS; WELL WATER;

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; POLLUTION INCIDENCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; OIL INDUSTRY; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRACKING; MINING; OIL AND GAS FIELD; TEXAS; WATER POLLUTANT;

PERMIAN BASIN; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC FRACKING; NATURAL GAS; OIL AND GAS FIELDS; TEXAS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER QUALITY; WATER WELLS;

EID: 84964372722     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.04.144     Document Type: Article

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