Workshop on the Subsurface in the American West: Applying Historical and Scientific Lessons from Mining to Contemporary Oil and Natural Gas Development

美国西部地下研讨会：将采矿业的历史和科学经验应用于当代石油和天然气开发

• 批准号: 1649919
• 负责人: Patricia Limerick
• 金额: $ 4.93万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1649919&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Subsurface; American; West; Applying

1649919 Limerick, Patricia N. After a very brisk boom over the past decade, oversupply of petroleum has led to a steep drop in prices. This "bust" has interrupted the rapid expansion of well drilling in conjunction with hydraulic fracturing, and a trend of shutting down and capping, closing, and even abandoning wells has accelerated. A wide range of stakeholders are often improvising procedures to manage this new phase constrained by declining financial resources. The premise of this workshop is that the history of the American West holds, in a multiplicity of abandoned mines, a century and a half's worth of directly relevant case studies. A workshop for coming to grips with the history and material impact of Western mining, and applying that understanding to the current circumstances of Western oil and gas production, presents an opportunity to bring scientists, engineers, historians, and policy scholars into an innovative, dynamic, and consequential conversation.The workshop will place knowledge of subsurface activities in their broader context as practices embedded in intended and unintended historical legacies and provide a novel framework for anticipating and mitigating environmental, economic, and social impacts of contemporary oil and gas development. The central premise is that a historic-scientific approach will produce a life-cycle perspective on resource extraction and suggest practices to minimize the negative long-term consequences of intensive oil and gas production. An integrated review of past, current, and emerging sensing technology will identify data gaps and promote better monitoring and management of risk from subsurface resource extraction. Workshop participants will be selected to bridge scientific and lay/local knowledge of the impact of human activities in the subsurface. The costs and benefits of subsurface enterprises will be identified, along with their distribution at scales of neighborhood, town, city, suburb, county, state, reservation, region, nation, and planet. The workshop will draw on the expertise of the Center of the American West, in casting scholars in the humanities and social sciences as participants alongside scientists and engineers in managing the impacts of energy, water, and mining activities, rather than bringing them in as translators after the scientists have done their work. The workshop will foster public discussion of management of the subsurface by bringing together heretofore disparate voices of scientists, engineers, humanists, and local residents representing diverse communities. A published document, possibly a journal special issue, will present subsurface management strategies generated in the workshop based on review of scientific findings about the impacts of oil and gas development placed in a context of political, economic, social, and cultural relations, identified through using knowledge of historic mining. Workshop outcomes also will provide a framework for regulators and stakeholders interested in producing new policy and regulations, and create opportunities for partnerships between industry and academic researchers. Ideas for interdisciplinary approaches for teaching classes about the subsurface will be developed, including recruitment and training of researchers and other experts as guest speakers, curriculum guides, and class materials representing science, technology, and the humanities. New educational developments begun at the University of Colorado Boulder will provide a grounded example that can be made available to other universities and colleges.

[1649919]帕特里夏·N.利默里克，在经历了过去十年的蓬勃发展之后，石油供应过剩导致了价格的急剧下跌。这种“泡沫破裂”中断了与水力压裂相结合的钻井的快速扩张，关闭、封顶、关闭甚至弃井的趋势也在加速。广泛的利益攸关方经常即兴制定程序，以管理这一受财政资源减少限制的新阶段。本次研讨会的前提是，美国西部的历史，在众多的废弃矿山中，有一个半世纪的价值直接相关的案例研究。研讨会旨在了解西方采矿的历史和物质影响，并将这些理解应用于西方石油和天然气生产的当前环境，为科学家、工程师、历史学家和政策学者提供了一个创新、动态和重要的对话机会。该研讨会将把地下活动的知识置于更广泛的背景下，作为嵌入有意和无意的历史遗产的实践，并为预测和减轻当代油气开发对环境、经济和社会的影响提供一个新的框架。核心前提是，历史科学的方法将产生资源开采的生命周期观点，并建议将集约化油气生产的负面长期后果降到最低的做法。对过去、当前和新兴传感技术的综合评估将确定数据差距，并促进更好地监测和管理地下资源开采的风险。讲习班的参加者将被挑选出来，以衔接有关人类活动对地下影响的科学知识和外行/当地知识。将确定地下企业的成本和收益，以及它们在社区、城镇、城市、郊区、县、州、保护区、地区、国家和地球的分布。该研讨会将利用美国西部中心的专业知识，邀请人文和社会科学领域的学者与科学家和工程师一起参与管理能源、水和采矿活动的影响，而不是在科学家完成工作后再邀请他们作为翻译。研讨会将汇集迄今为止不同的科学家、工程师、人文主义者和代表不同社区的当地居民的声音，促进公众对地下管理的讨论。将发表一份文件，可能是一份期刊特刊，介绍讲习班根据在政治、经济、社会和文化关系的背景下审查有关石油和天然气开发影响的科学发现所产生的地下管理战略，这些发现是通过利用历史采矿知识确定的。研讨会的成果还将为有意制定新政策和法规的监管机构和利益相关者提供一个框架，并为产业界和学术界研究人员之间的伙伴关系创造机会。将开发关于地下课堂的跨学科教学方法，包括招聘和培训研究人员和其他专家作为客座演讲者、课程指南和代表科学、技术和人文学科的课堂材料。科罗拉多大学博尔德分校开始的新教育发展将为其他大学和学院提供一个基础的例子。