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

1649919利默里克，帕特里夏N.在过去十年的繁荣之后，石油供应过剩导致价格急剧下跌。这一“泡沫”中断了与水力压裂相结合的钻井的快速扩张，并加速了关闭和封盖，关闭甚至放弃威尔斯的趋势。由于财政资源不断减少，许多利益攸关方往往临时制定程序来管理这一新阶段。这个研讨会的前提是，美国西部的历史，在废弃矿山的多样性，一个世纪和直接相关的案例研究的价值。一个研讨会来掌握西方采矿的历史和物质影响，并将这种理解应用到西方石油和天然气生产的现状，提供了一个机会，使科学家，工程师，历史学家和政策学者进入一个创新的，动态的，讲习班将把地下活动的知识放在更广泛的背景下，作为嵌入在预期和非预期的历史遗产，并为预测和减轻当代石油和天然气开发的环境，经济和社会影响提供了一个新的框架。核心前提是，历史科学方法将产生资源开采的生命周期观点，并提出尽量减少密集石油和天然气生产的负面长期后果的做法。对过去、当前和新兴传感技术的综合审查将确定数据差距，促进更好地监测和管理地下资源开采的风险。将挑选讲习班参加者，以便将关于人类活动对地下的影响的科学知识和非专业/当地知识结合起来。地下企业的成本和收益将被确定，沿着它们在社区、城镇、城市、郊区、县、州、保留地、地区、国家和星球的规模上的分布。该研讨会将借鉴美国西部中心的专业知识，将人文和社会科学领域的学者与科学家和工程师一起作为参与者，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将他们作为翻译。该研讨会将通过汇集迄今为止代表不同社区的科学家、工程师、人文主义者和当地居民的不同声音，促进公众对地下管理的讨论。一份出版的文件，可能是一份期刊特刊，将介绍研讨会上产生的地下管理战略，该战略是根据对石油和天然气开发影响的科学发现的审查，这些影响是通过使用历史采矿知识确定的，并置于政治、经济、社会和文化关系的背景下。研讨会的成果还将为有兴趣制定新政策和法规的监管机构和利益攸关方提供一个框架，并为行业和学术研究人员之间的伙伴关系创造机会。将开发关于地下教学课程的跨学科方法的想法，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，技术和人文的课程材料。新的教育发展开始在科罗拉多大学博尔德将提供一个接地的例子，可以提供给其他大学和学院。

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.