
ENV013-00051
A worker samples water and drilling mud coming from a rig at a coal bed methane drill site near Buffalo, WY. The fluid goes to a pond and at this well, it is recirculated.
Keywords
- coal bed methane
- Color
- Development
- drillers
- Drilling
- drilling mud
- drilling rig workers
- energy
- horizontal
- Industrial
- Industry
- natural gas
- Pollution
- Water
- water issues
- Water pollution
- water use
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